Reading in a Digital Culture: The Mount Angel Lecture

Wolf’s most contemplative recorded talk, given at Mount Angel Abbey in Oregon (2024). In the abbey’s words, she examines “the effects of digital mediums on the development and the sustaining of deep reading processes, particularly empathy/perspective-taking, inference, and critical thinking — the precursors to the contemplative function and our deepest insights.”

Watch on YouTube (60 min), or listen to the audio version.

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