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| danbloom Groupie Antarctica zippy1300.blogspot.c Joined 5749 days ago 42 posts - 42 votes | Message 1 of 52 27 February 2009 at 1:49pm | IP Logged | ||
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I am curious to know if any other people here share my concerns about the need for a new word in English, and other languages, too, for READING ONLINE, to differentiate this activity from reading on paper, which is a very different animal.
See two blogs I am on here: one in China, the other in USA: edit AND in other languages, how does one different reading text on paper surface to reading text on a screen online? Do tell. Email me offline for any followups too. danbloom AT gmail DOT com Edited by danbloom on 06 April 2009 at 6:28am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Volte Tetraglot Senior Member Switzerland Joined 6439 days ago 4474 posts - 6726 votes  Speaks: English*, Esperanto, German, Italian Studies: French, Finnish, Mandarin, Japanese | Message 2 of 52 27 February 2009 at 2:20pm | IP Logged | ||
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It's not at all a different animal - I do them interchangeably.
The difference in types of content (short news articles vs novels vs textbooks ...) is much more substantial, but can already be adequately expressed without new words. Edit: please don't duplicate-post or promote your blogs in your first posts. Edited by Volte on 27 February 2009 at 2:22pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| eoinda Tetraglot Senior Member Sweden Joined 5948 days ago 101 posts - 113 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English, Spanish, Mandarin Studies: French | Message 3 of 52 05 April 2009 at 3:52pm | IP Logged | ||
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I agree with Volte it is very much the same thing and if you want them to differ why can't you just say "online
reading" as opposed to "normal reading". 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Juan M. Senior Member Colombia Joined 5899 days ago 460 posts - 597 votes | Message 4 of 52 05 April 2009 at 7:12pm | IP Logged | ||
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I do believe that, as they are commonly practiced, they are different activities which involve separate and distinct states of mind. And quite frankly, I pity a new generation that may miss out on genuine reading.
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| danbloom Groupie Antarctica zippy1300.blogspot.c Joined 5749 days ago 42 posts - 42 votes | Message 5 of 52 06 April 2009 at 6:18am | IP Logged | ||
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JUAnM above said: "I do believe that, as they are commonly practiced, they are different activities which involve separate and distinct states of mind. And quite frankly, I pity a new generation that may miss out on genuine reading. "
I do believe that, as they are commonly practiced, they are different activities which involve separate and distinct states of mind. And quite frankly, I pity a new generation that may miss out on genuine reading. Well said, JuanM. I agree. that is what i am driving at: we use different mental facutlies and diffrent parts of brain when we read online and when we read on paper. Both are reading, yes, but they are different kinds of "reading" AND that is why i feel we need a new word, like screening, but who knows what it will be. common usage will decide later. most people disagree with me and JuanM, but a few do. One is Dr Anne MGNANE IN nOWAR WHO SAIDS" Hi, my first impression is that the term "screening" is adequate in some respects, but not in others. It's adequate to the extent that it points to certain differences in the reading mode which has to do with the display nature, the central bias of a screen compared to a page of print text (our gaze is naturally oriented towards the center), and the image-like character of modalities (we tend to read a screen spatially, in contrast to the page which we linearly). It is not adequate insofar as it does not discriminate between different kinds of screening - we can also screen a print text (scan, filter, skim etc.), and we perceive different kinds of screens differently (compare the TV with the cell phone, the e-book with the laptop). Regards, Anne Mangen Dr. art., førsteamanuensis Ph. D., associate professor National Centre for Reading Research and Education Universitetet i Stavanger University of Stavanger 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| danbloom Groupie Antarctica zippy1300.blogspot.c Joined 5749 days ago 42 posts - 42 votes | Message 6 of 52 06 April 2009 at 6:20am | IP Logged | ||
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vOLTE TRGILOT SAID: "It's not at all a different animal - I do them interchangeably.
The difference in types of content (short news articles vs novels vs textbooks ...) is much more substantial, but can already be adequately expressed without new words. " i was NOT CLEAR.....VOLTE, WE DO THEM INTERCHANgably yes, but this is not about content, short or textbooks, this is about how our brains process the info we get when we read on paper and when we read on screens,,,,it is VERY DIffrent, see dr anne above from norway, she is leading the charge on this DANNY 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| danbloom Groupie Antarctica zippy1300.blogspot.c Joined 5749 days ago 42 posts - 42 votes | Message 7 of 52 06 April 2009 at 6:21am | IP Logged | ||
Yes yes , saying ONLINE READING is okay, too. I agree. But in time, we will need a new word; it won't be SCREENING....but what other words or terms can you think of? danny just asking, no agenda 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| danbloom Groupie Antarctica zippy1300.blogspot.c Joined 5749 days ago 42 posts - 42 votes | Message 8 of 52 06 April 2009 at 6:26am | IP Logged | ||
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Hi,
my first impression is that the term *****"screening" is adequate in some respects, but *****not in others. It's adequate to the extent that it points to certain differences in the reading mode which has to do with the display nature, the central *****bias of a screen compared to a page of print text (our gaze is *****naturally oriented towards the center), and the image-like character of modalities (we ******tend to read a screen spatially, in *****contrast to the page which we linearly). It is not adequate insofar as it does not discriminate between different kinds of screening - we can also screen a print text (scan, filter, skim etc.), and we perceive different kinds of screens differently (compare the TV with the cell phone, the e-book with the laptop). Regards, Anne Mangen Dr. art., førsteamanuensis Ph. D., associate professor National Centre for Reading Research and Education Universitetet i Stavanger University of Stavanger screening 1 person has voted this message useful |
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