Media, Information and Technoculture 2000F/G Lecture Notes - Looking For Alaska, George Orwell, Mccarthyism
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Cell phone, just reading a book outside or something. Silent reading becomes more prevalent. but does not eclipse vocalized reading. There"s still vocal reading in family circles, reading newspapers aloud at the kitchen table. Tendency to associate silent reading with middle/upper classes and associate vocalized reading with the working/lower class. Part of this reflects the fact that there"s higher rates of literacy in the upper classes so lower classes have to listen to writing because they can"t read it. Reading aloud marks you as being from a lower class. Unsupervised reading could be bad, you can"t moniter what people are reading. With a few books available to you, you read them multiple times and intensively. People are skimming, browsing more after the 1500"s. Table of contents introduced that facilitates skipping to chapters, finding a favourite part. Indexes start to appear so you can look up specific things. Breaking the book up into smaller bits with chapters.