I realized sad I was thinking about why it impacted me so much, it's probably because I read Unkindness (and I do love it to pieces and it has stayed with me!) but listened to The Deep, which forced me to focus more? stay with it more? I don't think we have a really good theory or approach to the way audio works differently than reading, but then we don't even have a theory yet about how different people read, so... Phenomenologists to the fore???
(This conference i went to last year had all these psychological experiments where they measure brain waves and compare text paper and ebook reading but...I'm much more interested in the way we engage with fiction as we're reading, how it changes depending on where we are, our mood, our situation in life, what we've read before, etc etc)
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I realized sad I was thinking about why it impacted me so much, it's probably because I read Unkindness (and I do love it to pieces and it has stayed with me!) but listened to The Deep, which forced me to focus more? stay with it more? I don't think we have a really good theory or approach to the way audio works differently than reading, but then we don't even have a theory yet about how different people read, so... Phenomenologists to the fore???
(This conference i went to last year had all these psychological experiments where they measure brain waves and compare text paper and ebook reading but...I'm much more interested in the way we engage with fiction as we're reading, how it changes depending on where we are, our mood, our situation in life, what we've read before, etc etc)