Reminder:
Dear
All,
The CEU Department of Cognitive Science cordially invites you to its next week
talk by:
Inge van de Ven (Tilburg University)
Date: Wednesday,
November 14, 2018 – 17:00-18:30
Host: Csaba
Pleh
Location: Department
of Cognitive Science, CEU, Oktober 6 street 7, room 101.
Title: How to Read in an Information Age? - Towards an Integrative Model of Close
and Hyperreading
Abstract:
Contemporary technological developments have drastically increased the amount of texts available through different media, leading to new reading habits. A shift has occurred from
close reading, sustained and focused attention to the text, to hyperreading, non-linear, computer-assisted modes of reading such as skimming and scanning. Consequently, some fear, young people are losing the ability to concentrate. Meanwhile,
print literacy skills obtained in school do not converge
with digital reading tasks performed outside the classroom for leisure. The shift to online reading, therefore, entails a challenge for literature education. How to guide students in these new reading habits?
My research is aimed at developing an integrative or ‘adaptive’ model that bridges the gap between print and digital literacies by integrating
close and hyperreading, and proposing ways of reading that oscillate between these two strategies. Today’s multiform textual abundance demands an
active attitude, asking readers to switch between sources; it involves a high degree of
creativity in combining different modes of reading and determining when to choose what mode. Starting from an interdisciplinary theoretical framework of literary studies, cognitive studies of attention, and creativity research, I draw on experimental,
multimodal literature to create a training environment for such an integrative literacy. Such texts solicit new modes of reading as they mimic our multimodal engagement with information in contemporary media spaces; yet they do so
within the confines of a single work that offers a controlled and controllable environment. They form an ideal, unexplored site for developing a synergetic approach to print and digital literacies.
We look forward to seeing you there!
Cognitive Science Events at CEU: http://cognitivescience.ceu.edu/events
Györgyné Finta (Réka)
Department Coordinator
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Central European University
Department of Cognitive Science
H-1051 Budapest
Oktober 6 utca 7.
tel: (36-1) 887-5138
fax: (36-1) 887-5010
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