Digital Hemlock

I haven't read the whole book but I did find some thoughtful quotes from this book:

"The more public the information, the more meaningless it is. The most significant personal knowledge is rarely shared. To upload a self onto the world wide web is to share the most irrelevant, public part of identity." p. 59

"A book can be flicked through, just as a hypertext link can be jumped, but electronic information encourages a smash and grab style of reading, rather than a smoother, more reflexive meditation. The key for teachers and the library profession is to show students and the public how to use divergent modes of reading and research. ...with dense historical description and high theory the reading is slow, drifting along with the sensuality for the words, so that detailed and intense meanings may emerge." AND " The materiality of searching, the evocative potential of exploring an exciting array of potential sources is still a significant part of an intellectual journey. Particular cultural practices have been lost through the electronic age: flicking through a card catalog, dialing a telephone or winding down a car window. Everyday life has changed, desensitizing corporeality and tearing the sensual surfaces of a textured life." p. 85

"The Internet is not a library--this is a dangerous metaphor."

"The desire to be someone else online is an act of denial as well as empowerment ." p. 124

Digital Hemlock. Tara Brabazon.