CHANGING READING PATHS IN A DIGITAL AGE: WHAT ARE THE CONSEQUENCES FOR MEANING-MAKING?

• Authors: Petrová Zuzana , Nemec Rastislav
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

Everyday experience and a growing part of empirical research illustrate the changing reality of reading in our society in recent years. There are many empirical, pedagogical and philosophical studies that reflect on the falling level of general knowledge of the population and the superficiality of young people’s reading comprehension. In this study, we aim to identify and analyse how reading is changing with the emergence of new text architecture and the replacement of alphabetic, print-based text with screen-based text, and ask whether this new ontological variant could also bring about a change in the epistemological “qualities” of reading. We go beyond the design of digital text itself to ask how changes in text design affect the role of alphabetic text in meaning-making. We then examine specific aspects of the change in the nature of reading itself and how they could lead to a paradigmatic change in pedagogy and literacy.

Keywords

EN

MEANING-MAKING; ALPHABETIC TEXT; DIGITAL TEXT; READING; PRINTED TEXT

• Publisher: Faculty of Education, Trnava University
• Journal: Pedagogický časopis (Journal of Pedagogy)
• Year: 2019
• Volume: 10
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 65 – 85

Contributors

author

Petrová Zuzana

• Tomas Bata University in Zlin, Faculty of Humanities, Department of School Education, Štefánikova 5670, 760 01 Zlín, Czech Republic

author

Nemec Rastislav

Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/jped-2019-0007