This shocking, lively exposure of the intellectual vacuity of today’s under thirty set reveals the disturbing and, ultimately, incontrovertible truth: cyberculture is turning us into a nation of know-nothings.
Can a nation continue to enjoy political and economic predominance if its citizens refuse to grow up?
For decades, concern has been brewing about the dumbed-down popular culture available to young people and the impact it has on their futures. At the dawn of the digital age, many believed they saw a hopeful answer: The Internet, e-mail, blogs, and interactive and hyper-realistic video games promised to yield a generation of sharper, more aware, and intellectually sophisticated children. The terms “information superhighway” and “knowledge economy” entered the lexicon, and we assumed that teens would use their knowledge and understanding of technology to set themselves apart as the vanguards of this new digital era.
That was the promise. But the enlightenment didn’t happen. The technology that was supposed to make young adults more astute, diversify their tastes, and improve their verbal skills has had the opposite effect. According to recent reports, most young people in the United States do not read literature, visit museums, or vote. They cannot explain basic scientific methods, recount basic American history, name their local political representatives, or locate Iraq or Israel on a map. The Dumbest Generation is a startling examination of the intellectual life of young adults and a timely warning of its consequences for American culture and democracy.
Drawing upon exhaustive research, personal anecdotes, and historical and social analysis, Mark Bauerline presents an uncompromisingly realistic portrait of the young American mind at this critical juncture, and lays out a compelling vision of how we might address its deficiencies.
Mark Bauerlein is a professor of English at Emory University and has worked as a director of Research and Analysis at the National Endowment for the Arts, where he oversaw studies about culture and American life.
一本有趣的小书,虽然数据都来自美国,但是很多事实和特征适用各国于互联网一代,很容易找到样板。实际上,由互联网带来的弱龄化,以及一大批躲在二次元时间不愿出来的少年,又何止在美国。今天中国互联网人群衍生出的语境变化,对传统文化和严肃文学又多少影响我无从预知,不...
評分this author actually cite a lot of research indicating about the children read less but there is no way saying that as the interest moved from thick history book toward techonology is a stupid thing.
評分网络技术的发展突飞猛进,对于我自己来说,大一大二几乎是沉浸在网络的世界里,课程什么的在考试前一周临时抱佛脚就能合格,优秀与合格也没有多大差别,反正评奖学金都是以学分制来,最后折算的差距仅仅在小数点后第三位,关键的是活动加分。所以我完全忽略课堂,教师,沉迷于...
評分花了一个中午的时间读完这本书,还是有一定的收获。 首先吸引我的是这本书的封面,还有一个书名。本书一共有6章,第一章主要是大部分的数据构成,调查研究发现现代的年轻人和调查者那一代人的日常活动的差别。第二章叫做恐惧读书,第三章叫做屏幕时间。我想将他们放在一起去论...
評分如要更快成长,应当习惯性做总结,这是大学老师给我们的一则训言。 对于每一次新事物的获取,我很少做自我系统性的总结。这一劣根性毛病理应尽早革除、燃尽、掩埋,以致作为新生的肥料。 从刚看完的一本书<最愚蠢大一代>开始,愿长此以往,挣脱愚蠢的禁锢,向独立性思考人格...
對於中國人,特彆是中國年輕人,基本沒用。
评分這本書其實我看瞭有一陣子瞭,但我並沒有看完。如果圖書館沒有催還的話,我本是打算看完的。但結果,我隻看瞭一半的樣子,並毫不後悔的還瞭迴去。在看這本書之前,其實我期望甚高的,因為這本書的作者說過:其實,每個人的生活中,99%都對彆人沒有任何意義。因為這一句話,我開始看這一本書,但看瞭一半之後的感覺卻並不如我的期望。這更像是一篇及格但不優秀的議論文,有著清晰的論點、論據、論證,卻沒有閃光點。然後,也就是這樣瞭。
评分這本書其實我看瞭有一陣子瞭,但我並沒有看完。如果圖書館沒有催還的話,我本是打算看完的。但結果,我隻看瞭一半的樣子,並毫不後悔的還瞭迴去。在看這本書之前,其實我期望甚高的,因為這本書的作者說過:其實,每個人的生活中,99%都對彆人沒有任何意義。因為這一句話,我開始看這一本書,但看瞭一半之後的感覺卻並不如我的期望。這更像是一篇及格但不優秀的議論文,有著清晰的論點、論據、論證,卻沒有閃光點。然後,也就是這樣瞭。
评分對於中國人,特彆是中國年輕人,基本沒用。
评分倒不覺得數字時代讓這代人變得“更笨”瞭,而是將那些本來就笨入膏肓的人更加明顯地暴露瞭齣來,並形成瞭一種“我笨故我在”甚至“我笨我自豪”的以笨為榮文化。
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