Reading in a Digital Culture: The Mount Angel Lecture

Wolf’s most contemplative recorded talk, given at Mount Angel Abbey in Oregon (2024). The abbey’s own summary: 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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