Digital reading: genealogy of formation and prospects for its development in a digitalized society
https://doi.org/10.20913/1815-3186-2019-4-14-21
Abstract
The theme of digital reading is becoming ever more relevant with a growing understanding of the importance of reading for developing both an individual and society as a whole. The issue addressed in the article is connected with the recently evolved concept of “digital reading”. The article is aimed at understanding digital reading and its core modifications – static (reading from the screen of an electronic gadget), reading of hypertext, reading in polymedia culture, as well as understanding what makes digital reading different (ideologically, physiologically, technologically) from traditional forms of reading. The author examines its genealogy as it was formed in the context of the evolution of writing and the emergence of new media and information centered printed culture. As a result the author specifies her own definition of digital reading and comes to the conclusion that it is most actively employed in education, which is rapidly becoming digitalized. The author also emphasizes the special function of modern libraries (public libraries, children’ libraries, school and university libraries), which should play the role of the “competent adult” in helping the user to develop the digital reading competences.
About the Author
Yu. P. Melentieva
Scientific and Production Center «Nauka», Russian Academy of Sciences
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Melentieva Yulia Petrovna, corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Education, Honored Worker of Culture of the Russian Federation, Doctor of Pedagogical Sciences, Professor, Head of the Reading Department of the FGBU of Scientific Center “Nauka” of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Deputy Chairman of the Scientific Council on Reading Problems, member of the IFLA Section “Literacy and Reading”
Moscow
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