Recent Publication: Does Listening Count as Reading?

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The image shows a black-and-white newspaper clipping under The New York Times masthead, dated Wednesday, November 7, 1877. The article title reads “THE PHONOGRAPH,” and the visible text discusses the phonograph as a new invention that could record and preserve sound, comparing it with the telephone.
From the New York Times, 1877

Sharing a recent piece that my colleague, JT Torres, and I wrote about multimodal reading with a particular focus on audiobooks (you're all shocked, I know!).  The piece, Does Listening Count as Reading?: Multimodal Reading Matters, was a fun piece to author because I get to nerd out about audiobooks and got to co-write with my friend, JT, whom I first collaborated on this article last year for Inside Higher Ed.

Here's an excerpt; read the rest here:

"Imagine if you were told that a technology could order up a sermon for a congregation or immediately summon a long-dead historical figure to charm your dinner guests. Maybe you want a mechanical voice to dispense medical advice?  Such a technology might even render libraries irrelevant!"

Certainly, the above references AI. After all, many headlines warn that AI threatens to make books obsolete. Other articles lament students' shortened attention spans and noticeable loss of focus and that fact that students no longer read entire books.

But actually, the above comes from an article published in the New York Times in 1877. "

In the wake of finishing the Ph.D., I definitely am drawn back to do more writing (reflecting but also academic) on the topic of audiobooks.  Now, if I can just find the time (and stop writing about AI--ha!).

In the meanwhile, here are some of my favorite posts I've done on Audiobooks over the years:

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