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Essay / Is Google creating USupid, and Clay Shirky's article Why...
From the word cloud, you can see the word "reading", which is no surprise, since This is a response to Carrr's article which focused heavily on reading. However, what is surprising is the fact that apart from this word, there is nothing in common between the word clouds generated by the two articles. Looking at the word cloud, there is a word that seems out of place, an anomaly/irregularity. “War” is not a word one would expect in this word cloud and it might be something a person would want to analyze further. To do this, they would use the “Keyword in Context” tool. Doing the same for the word "war" would show us that all occurrences of the word in the article refer to a book title. Another difference revealed by the word cloud is that Carr seems to be talking about the cognitive and mental effects of reading and information, while Shirky seems to be talking about the culture of reading around the world.