Reading in a Digital Culture: The Beauty and the Challenges to Empathy, Critical Analysis, and Contemplation

Mount Angel Institute at Mount Angel Abbey invites all to a talk by teacher and literary advocate Dr. Maryanne Wolf, who will explore “…questions about 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.”