To Say Nothing

I love books. I do. I think they are awesome. This one is a favourite of mine:

To Say Nothing of the Dog: How we found the Bishop’s bird stump at last is the story of a fellow named Ned, who is spending far too much time hopping from the 21^st century to various points in history to do research. All of the researchers on the project are exhausted, and one of them makes a mistake. Ned has to go back to the Victorian era to help her fix it. It’s a very funny book.

A few things in the book that I think can relate well to digital culture:

•        Time and space being compressed—it’s a time travel story, what do you expect?—relates well to the book Age of Distraction which was the scholarly book on digital culture that I recently read.
• Confusion of Information—Ned has a really difficult time understanding things at first because he’s been jumping through time so much that he’s “time lagged” and is still being asked to take in and act on a huge amount of information—related to the fact that there’s so much information on the web that it can all get jumbled together in our minds. 
•  Fan culture and being genre savvy—Ned and Verity and the author, Connie Willis, all make references to Victorian era books.
• Searching for information—Ned and Verity both have information-gathering jobs—the internet is one of the best ways of searching for information now.