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- Title
Reading in the Digital Age.
- Authors
BĂDULESCU, Dana
- Abstract
This article is the second in a series I am planning to write on reading in the digital age. The first one entitled "On Books and Reading" looked into the evolution of books and paradigms of reading in the last approximately three hundred years. It served as a prelude to an endeavour that aims to capture a very dynamic phenomenon, which is that of reading in the digital age. In November 2014 I joined a COST action whose objective is to assess the impact of digitisation on reading. Since research in this field is underway, both questions and answers are tentative. There are upsides and downsides to reading both in print and on screens. Reading paper books, and since the advent of print, printed books has shaped our reading and even our thinking habits. Nevertheless, e-readers are a recent invention with considerable benefits. The transition from paper book reading to e-reading is double-edged. E-readers and other digital devices are light and portable, but reading on screens may be confusing, disorienting, and it may have a negative impact on cognitive and emotional aspects of reading, which are serious downsides. On the other hand, reports show that owners of digital devices read more in either medium, and it seems that the new products designed especially for digital use are not texts in the traditional sense. It may also be that getting used to and accepting the new digital devices and applications may take some time. Adapting them to our reading habits may also take time. Alternatively, they may change our reading habits dramatically, or the future may be paper for texts and digital for more interactive products.
- Publication
Philologica Jassyensia, 2016, Vol 12, Issue 1, p139
- ISSN
1841-5377
- Publication type
Academic Journal