“How are people today “reading” in digital, networked environments? For example, what is the relation between reading and browsing, or searching? Or between reading and multimedia? Can innovations in technologies or interfaces increase the productivity, variety, and pleasure of these new kinds of reading? How can the historical diversity of human reading practices help us gauge the robustness of the new digital practices; and, inversely, how can contemporary practices provide new ways to understand the technical, social, and cultural dimensions of historical reading?”
June 17-18 at UC Santa Barbara, kicking off the Transliteracies Project: “Research in the Technological, Social, and Cultural Practices of Online Reading”.
(thanks, Grand Text Auto)
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An underlying issue is the distinction between print and on-line research and the advisability of separating the print and digital libraries. Perhaps two libraries are better than one. Perhaps the digital library has been built within the print libraries by accident.