27.4051, Books: Words Onscreen: Baron

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Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2016 12:45:45
From: Carolyn Napolitano [Carolyn.Napolitano at oup.com]
Subject: Words Onscreen: Baron

Title: Words Onscreen 
Subtitle: The Fate of Reading in a Digital World 
Publication Year: 2016 
Publisher: Oxford University Press
	   http://www.oup.com/us

Book URL: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/words-onscreen-9780190624163 

Author: Naomi S. Baron

Paperback: ISBN:  9780190624163 Pages: 328 Price: U.S. $ 19.95

Abstract:

People have been reading on computer screens for several decades now,
predating popularization of personal computers and widespread use of the
internet. But it was the rise of eReaders and tablets that caused digital
reading to explode. In 2007, Amazon introduced its first Kindle. Three years
later, Apple debuted the iPad. Meanwhile, as mobile phone technology improved
and smartphones proliferated, the phone became another vital reading platform.

In Words Onscreen, Naomi Baron, an expert on language and technology, explores
how technology is reshaping our understanding of what it means to read.
Digital reading is increasingly popular. Reading onscreen has many virtues,
including convenience, potential cost-savings, and the opportunity to bring
free access to books and other written materials to people around the world.
Yet, Baron argues, the virtues of eReading are matched with drawbacks. Users
are easily distracted by other temptations on their devices, multitasking is
rampant, and screens coax us to skim rather than read in-depth. What is more,
if the way we read is changing, so is the way we write. In response to
changing reading habits, many authors and publishers are producing shorter
works and ones that don't require reflection or close reading.

In her tour through the new world of eReading, Baron weights the value of
reading physical print versus online text, including the question of what
long-standing benefits of reading might be lost if we go overwhelmingly
digital. She also probes how the internet is shifting reading from being a
solitary experience to a social one, and the reasons why eReading has taken
off in some countries, especially the United States and United Kingdom, but
not others, like France and Japan. Reaching past the hype on both sides of the
discussion, Baron draws upon her own cross-cultural studies to offer a
clear-eyed and balanced analysis of the ways technology is affecting the ways
we read today--and what the future might bring.

Linguistic Field(s): Sociolinguistics

Written In: English  (eng)

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