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Neohelicon (2009) 36:533550 DOI 10.1007/s11059-009-0022-4
Mara Goicoechea de Jorge Amelia Sanz
Published online: 29 September 2009 Akadmiai Kiad, Budapest, Hungary 2009
Abstract In the present paper, we take as a starting point the debate on the relationships between the changes in writing supports and the changes in reading rituals, defending the need to pluralize the models and functions of literary reading so as to be able to approach different typologies of literary digital texts. Firstly, after revising and situating in a historical context the different types of reading rituals that the print text has developed, we reect upon the type of reading that the academia is implicitly demanding in this new context through its use of ICCT and the design of learning sites. Secondly, we discuss how our readers, the students, are adjusting to the new digital literature and how can the teacher guide them through this permanently morphing scenario. We argue about the need to develop functional models for digital literary readings, and in the nal section of the paper, we offer several reading strategies that can help teachers and students build a bridge between print and digital literary texts.
Keywords Digital literature Learning Reading strategies ICCT
Wreaders Digital texts
Technologies for literatures: in other words, fears and desires
We are all digital immigrants coming from national cultures in print. In fact, books used to be the great vehicle of aesthetic experiences, although throughout the twentieth century, the screen removed their primacy. The book was the best support for storing and accessing knowledge, but over the nal quarter of the twentieth century, knowledge was also built on other supports. The book is still the most eminent vehicle for school learning, yet over the
M. Goicoechea de Jorge (&)
Departamento de Filologa Inglesa II, Facultad de Filologa, Universidad Complutense, 28040 Madrid, Spaine-mail: [email protected]
A. Sanz
Departamento de Francs, Facultad de Filologa, Universidad Complutense, 28040 Madrid, Spain e-mail: [email protected]
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next decades of this century, digital spaces may take on this privilege. This is a phenomenon that we expect, yet we also fear.
Technologies are a primary site for fears and desires in a given society: they are related with radical transformation and with...