In his article “Is Google making us stupid?”, Nicholas Carr argues that the Internet, and especially browsers like Google, is changing the way humans from our generation think. He explains that Internet creates a scattered and distracted way of thinking. This rewiring of our brains would make it harder for us to focus on long… Continue reading New media, new way of thinking?

In McLuhan and Fiore’s work, “The Medium is the Massage”, the argument is made that a medium has greater importance than the message it carries. This notion is boldly emphasized in the title itself . The word “message” has been substituted by “massage”. Not only does it catch the readers’ attention, it also ingeniously illustrates… Continue reading Beyond the message : Media shaping Society

Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein is the ideal book to read in October. This is the classic Gothic story to read next to an orange-leaved tree, immersing us in the perfect Halloween atmosphere. This is an even more interesting novel for Halloween month because of its shifts of narrators which allow the creature itself to express its perspective. So… Continue reading Shift of narrator in Frankenstein: development of a villain

Everybody knows Frankenstein, this monster who appears in every supermarket when Halloween approaches. While his name is famous all over the world, his real story is less known than the story related in many eponym movies. Mary Shelley’s “Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus” is not only a terrifying novel, but also an exploration of the… Continue reading Frankenstein or Frankenstein’s : who is the real monster?

Literature is generally associated with solitude. We have all seen a boy in our primary school reading in the schoolyard while his classmates were playing soccer together, or a grandfather reading his newspaper alone, sipping his coffee on a terrace. When thinking about someone reading or writing, we tend to imagine someone alone, lost in… Continue reading Reading : an isolating activity?