shallow reading
{{Short description|Superficial information acquisition method}}
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.{{cite web | last=Sprankle | first=Bob | title=Shallow or Deep Reading? | website=TechLearningMagazine | date=2012-05-24 | url=https://www.techlearning.com/tl-advisor-blog/4293 | access-date=2025-03-20}}{{cite journal |last1=Schütte |first1=Andrea |title=Hermeneutik heute – über den Sinn von flachem Lesen und halbem Verstehen |journal=Zeitschrift für Literaturwissenschaft und Linguistik |date=December 2021 |volume=51 |issue=4 |pages=821–826 |doi=10.1007/s41244-021-00230-2|doi-access=free }}{{cite web | title=Shallow reading | website=Reflections on Technology, Media & Culture | date=2013-02-16 | url=https://richardcoyne.com/2013/02/16/shallow-reading/ | access-date=2025-03-20}}{{cite book |last1=Carr |first1=Nicholas G. |title=The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains |date=2011 |publisher=W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated |isbn=978-0-393-07936-4 |edition=1st|url=https://archive.org/details/the-shallows/page/n5/mode/2up}}{{cite book |last1=Tapscott |first1=Don |title=Grown up digital: how the net generation is changing your world |date=2009 |publisher=McGraw-Hill |location=New York |isbn=9780071641555}}{{cite journal |last1=Liao |first1=Sixin |last2=Yu |first2=Lili |last3=Kruger |first3=Jan-Louis |last4=Reichle |first4=Erik D. |title=Dynamic reading in a digital age: new insights on cognition |journal=Trends in Cognitive Sciences |date=January 2024 |volume=28 |issue=1 |pages=43–55 |doi=10.1016/j.tics.2023.08.002|pmid=37696692 }}{{cite book|author1=Richard K. Wagner|author2=Christopher Schatschneider|author3=Caroline Phythian-Sence|title=Beyond Decoding: The Behavioral and Biological Foundations of Reading Comprehension|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qWPZ63GezB4C&pg=PA143|date=19 June 2009|publisher=Guilford Press|isbn=978-1-60623-356-6|pages=143–175}}
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.{{cite journal|author1=YANG, C.|author2= ZHANG, J. W.|year=2011|title=Deep choices in the era of shallow reading|journal=Journal of Academic Library and Information Science|volume=1, 004|s2cid= 157004658}}{{cite journal|author=Liu, Z.|year=2005|title=Reading behavior in the digital environment: Changes in reading behavior over the past ten years|journal=Journal of Documentation|volume=61|issue=6|pages=700–712|doi=10.1108/00220410510632040}}
Features
- 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.
- Visual: Objectives of shallow reading are often short texts with illustrations and pictures, or even images and/or video without text captions.
- 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.
{{cite web | last=Javed | first=Ahmad | title=Surface reading with characteristics/examples/Advantages | website=EngloPedia | date=2021-04-20 | url=https://englopedia.com/characteristics-surface-reading-with-advantages-in-detail/ | access-date=2025-03-20}}
See also
- {{annotated link|Reading comprehension}}
- {{annotated link|Screen reading}}
- {{annotated link|The Shallows (book)}}
References
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