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• Haddock, G. Ford, G., Saul, V., Brown, W. & Thompson, R. (2020). The medium can influence the message: Print based versus digital reading influence how people process different types of information. British Journal of Psychology, 111(3), 443 – 459. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjop.12415
• Mateus, S. (2021). Welcome to media rhetoric: Where human persuasion and technological means collide. Southern Communication Journal,86(2), 165 – 174. https://doi.org/10.1080/1041794X.2021.1884282

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Additional Sources for Your Consideration:

• Baudrillard, J.(1988). The ecstasy of communication (B. Schutze & C. Schutze, Trans.). Semiotext(e). (1987).
• Bradbury, R. (1950, September 23). The veldt (originally published as The world the children made). The Saturday Evening Post.
• Chaffee, S.H. & Metzger, M.J. (2000). The end of mass communication? Mass Communication & Society, 4(4), 365 – 379. https://doi.org/10.1207/S15327825MCS0404_3
• Chekhov, A. (n.d.) At home. American Literature. https://americanliterature.com/author/anton-chekhov/short-story/at-home
• Green, M.C. & Brock, T.C.. (2000). The role of transportation in the persuasiveness of public narratives. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 79(5), 701 – 721. https://psycnet.apa.org/doi/10.1037/0022-3514.79.5.701
• Henderson, J. (2024, October 17). Why everyone stopped reading [Video]. YouTube. https://youtu.be/A3wJcF0t0bQ?si=8ywTABkUGRlB4qQq
• Kemp, S. (2025, February 5). Digital 2025 July Global Statshot Report. We Are Social. https://wearesocial.com/uk/blog/2025/02/digital-2025/
• Maio, G.R., Haddock, G., & Verplanken, B. (2019). The psychology of attitudes & attitude change (3rd edition). Sage.
• Miall, D.S. & Kuiken, D. (1995). Aspects of literary response: A new questionnaire. Research in the Teaching of English, 29(1), 37 – 55. https://www.jstor.org/stable/40171422JSTOR
• McLuhan, E. (n.d.). Commonly asked questions (and answers). The Official Site for the Estate of Marshall McLuhan. https://marshallmcluhan.com/common-questions/
• McLuhan, M. (2011). The Gutenberg galaxy: The making of typographic man. University of Toronto Press.
• McLuhan, M. & Fiore, Q. (1967). The medium is the massage: An inventory of effects. HardWired.
• McQuail, D. (2010). McQuail’s mass communication theory (6th edition). Sage.
• Turkle, S. (1995). Life on the screen: Identity in the age of the internet. Simon & Schuster.
• Turkle, S. (2005). The second self: Computers and the human spirit (20th anniversary edition). MIT Press.
• Turkle, S. (2010). Alone together: Why we expect more from technology and less from each other. Penguin Press.
• Turkle, S. (2015). Reclaiming conversation: The power of talk in a digital age. Penguin Press.