Reading the Screen and the Book
for 22 Mar
Two digital texts to complicate reading- DAKOTA Y0UNG-HAE CHANG HEAVY INDUSTRIES Sound, adult language.
- ...and by islands I mean paragraphs, J. R. Carpenter.
Take your time. Relax. Read (whatever that means here) and re-read.
Some questions to consider in the (required) notes
- What is your role as a reader in each text? What are you cast by the writing as doing, able to do, expected to do, come away with from the reading?
- Who are you cast as as a reading public - that is, What kind of mindset, values, interests, ATTENTION does the text expect of you as part of the the general public who reads?
- Technology! What's it mean in this case?
- Comprehension! What does it mean to understand or comprehend this particular text? To get what it's presenting?
- D0es it mAke you thinK?
for 29 Mar
- Diagrammatic Writing, Drucker. PDF. Best read as printed PDF or full-screen in 2-page spread.
- Marshall, "Reading" PDF. From Reading and Writing the Electronic Book, Morgan& Claypool, Pubs, 2010.
Both of these address many of the assertions about reading Krug and others make about reading and reading on screen.
Your notes might address
- what the readings complicate about Krug's sense of reading
- the effectiveness of the the argument in each - Drucker's visual argument and Marshall's scholarly argument - to the extent that those arguments can be isolated from their material presentation.
- what the readings complicate about the practice of web content design and presentation.
- what the articles mean in practice. How might what they argue be taken into web content writing and design?
Special bonus reading
- Better than the Printed Page: Reading on an iPad. Tweaking the settings on an iPad for readability, based on reading research.
I, BonnieRobinson, am adding the following material.
As a class we participated in ReadingInTheFuture, and after this week's assignment, ReadingTheScreenAndTheBook, I started the page FutureOfReading. Feel free to contribute!
