Konyk said, “I’m just pleased that she reads something anymore.”Ĭhildren like Nadia lie at the heart of a passionate debate about just what it means to read in the digital age. Her mother, Deborah Konyk, would prefer that Nadia, who gets A’s and B’s at school, read books for a change. But she spends most of her time on or, reading and commenting on stories written by other users and based on books, television shows or movies. She searches for music videos on YouTube and logs onto Gaia Online, a role-playing site where members fashion alternate identities as cutesy cartoon characters. She regularly spends at least six hours a day in front of the computer here in this suburb southwest of Cleveland.Ī slender, chatty blonde who wears black-framed plastic glasses, Nadia checks her e-mail and peruses, a social networking site, reading messages or posting updates on her mood. Instead, like so many other teenagers, Nadia, 15, is addicted to the Internet. Her mother, hoping to entice her, brings them home from the library, but Nadia rarely shows an interest. BEREA, Ohio Books are not Nadia Konyk’s thing.
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