Media, Information and Technoculture 2000F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Extensive Reading, Individualism, Montreal Star
21 Oct 2016
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Dangers of private reading: e. g. , porn, people considered suspicious by reading all the time. Mobile reading: can read anywhere, transition from desktop to laptop. Silent/vocalized reading: proper mode of reading is silent. Working class: listening in public context. Novels/fiction: fear unleashed emotions, aroused dangerous emotions in women. Challenge to patriarchal authority: women were not considered full citizens, now, they were able to acquire knowledge. Compare paintings: photo 1 is problematic because it looks like the book is challenging patriarchal authority, photo 2 is a father reading the bible to his children. Intensive to extensive reading: photo 1- intensive. Format changes to books: table of contents, chapters. In earlier tradition, a poem is passed on by oral tradition: changes over time (not fixed texts) Accumulation of knowledge: books made discoveries more widely known. Destabilize knowledge: made people more aware of conflicting stories and interpretations.
