Shallow reading

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Shallow reading refers to social practices in which people acquire information or entertainment quickly from texts, images or other meaningful forms, individual or combination, by using various modern media. Shallow reading as a representational form of post-modern mass culture reflects a transition of expense principle tendency from print culture towards visual culture. [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7]

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Background

With the continuous update of advanced media technology and popularization of Internet, people are stepping into mobile Internet era. In this process, an obvious change is that traditional reading mode is gradually shifting to shallow reading. The prevalence of shallow reading has attracted attention of media, publishing and library fields. [8] [9]

Features

  1. Superficial:In order to enable people obtain useful information during the process of quick browsing, the target materials of shallow reading are usually very clear and easy to understand as well as with clear-cut topics.
  2. Visual: Objectives of shallow reading are often short texts with illustrations and pictures, or even images and/or video without text captions.
  3. Recreational:For deep readers, traditional reading is a process of thinking training and a cultivation of aesthetic culture while shallow reading gets rid of the seriousness of deep reading and mainly aim at facilitating readers acquire information and entertainment in a relaxing and interactive atmosphere.

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References

  1. ↑ Sprankle, Bob (2012-05-24). "Shallow or Deep Reading?". TechLearningMagazine. Retrieved 2025-03-20.
  2. ↑ Schütte, Andrea (December 2021). "Hermeneutik heute – über den Sinn von flachem Lesen und halbem Verstehen". Zeitschrift für Literaturwissenschaft und Linguistik. 51 (4): 821–826. doi: 10.1007/s41244-021-00230-2 .
  3. ↑ "Shallow reading". Reflections on Technology, Media & Culture. 2013-02-16. Retrieved 2025-03-20.
  4. 1 2 Carr, Nicholas G. (2011). The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains (1st ed.). W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated. ISBN   978-0-393-07936-4.
  5. ↑ Tapscott, Don (2009). Grown up digital: how the net generation is changing your world. New York: McGraw-Hill. ISBN   9780071641555.
  6. ↑ Liao, Sixin; Yu, Lili; Kruger, Jan-Louis; Reichle, Erik D. (January 2024). "Dynamic reading in a digital age: new insights on cognition". Trends in Cognitive Sciences. 28 (1): 43–55. doi:10.1016/j.tics.2023.08.002. PMID   37696692.
  7. ↑ Richard K. Wagner; Christopher Schatschneider; Caroline Phythian-Sence (19 June 2009). Beyond Decoding: The Behavioral and Biological Foundations of Reading Comprehension. Guilford Press. pp. 143–175. ISBN   978-1-60623-356-6.
  8. ↑ YANG, C.; ZHANG, J. W. (2011). "Deep choices in the era of shallow reading". Journal of Academic Library and Information Science. 1, 004. S2CID   157004658.
  9. ↑ Liu, Z. (2005). "Reading behavior in the digital environment: Changes in reading behavior over the past ten years". Journal of Documentation. 61 (6): 700–712. doi:10.1108/00220410510632040.
  10. ↑ Javed, Ahmad (2021-04-20). "Surface reading with characteristics/examples/Advantages". EngloPedia. Retrieved 2025-03-20.
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