Screen reading and the creation of new cognitive ecologies
| Autor: | Robert W. Clowes |
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| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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Cognitive science
media_common.quotation_subject 05 social sciences Cognition Context (language use) 06 humanities and the arts Print culture 0603 philosophy ethics and religion 050105 experimental psychology Human-Computer Interaction Philosophy Artificial Intelligence Reading (process) 060302 philosophy Cognitive Changes Learning to read 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Screen reading Performing arts Psychology media_common |
| Zdroj: | AI & SOCIETY. 34:705-720 |
| ISSN: | 1435-5655 0951-5666 |
| Popis: | It has been widely argued that digital technologies are transforming the nature of reading, and with it, our brains and a wide range of our cognitive capabilities. In this article, we begin by discussing the new analytical category of deep-reading and whether it is really on the decline. We analyse deep reading and its grounding in brain reorganization, based upon Michael Anderson’s Massive Redeployment hypothesis and Dehaene’s Neuronal Recycling which both help us to theorize how the capacities of brains are transformed by acquisition of new skills. We examine some of the difficulties in comparing reading using technologies such as the web-browser, the tablet and E-Reader, with reading using the pre-existing print culture. While learning to read undoubtedly changes the brain, we examine what evidence there is for this being tightly tied to particular material substrates and find this lacking. Instead we attempt to situate cognitive changes around the new reading within the context of the specific new cognitive ecologies incorporating both screen and page. This involves a reconsideration of the role of material culture in the cognitive abilities. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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