Video | Podcast
Wednesday, 12 April 2023 | Lecture Hall Complex, Radboud University
Is Netflix replacing the book as an empathy trainer? Empathising with novel characters, literary scholars argue, shapes your morality and feeds your empathy. De-learning therefore makes us feel numb. But TV series also ask users ethical questions, communication scholars say. So why read an entire book intently and at length when you can also bing a series? It's all about the story, right? Listen to Dutch scholar Jeroen Dera and communication scholar Serena Daalmans and learn whether you become a numb jerk if you stop reading books and how stories make us better people.
Review
The review is available in Dutch.
