Archive for October, 2016
How We Read
After re-reading the article by Hayles, in an attempt to shape a specific definition for reading, I came to the conclusion that there is no specific definition we can come up with. Defining reading in light of Hayles argument is just like DH, it bears so many possibilities and multiple terms associated with it, such as hyperreading, online […]
Response to Hayles
Hayles is discussing a subject that I feel is very important. As a 20 year old who keeps about 200 books in my tiny university townhouse, books are my favorite thing in the world. I have been an owner of two Amazon Kindles, the first in high school, which I used to read in class because […]
Hayles Response
As far as combating the “close-reading problem”, I don’t necessarily think of it as a problem. To an extent, and seemingly more often than not, close-reading is still being done, and it doesn’t seem to be going anywhere, at least from what I can tell. I think what Hayles is instead getting at is that […]
Hayles and Trask Response
I believe that the concept of ‘reading’ can be attributed through many different formats and found in various avenues of the academic and social world, whether it be literary or not. I find that the evolution from reading physical pages to digital ones is an advancement that comes with its own varying degrees of […]
Response to Hayles
Being born in 1995, I grew up with the internet and it being a daily part of my life, especially since my father works for a Microsoft company. I don’t remember what reading was like before internet, but I can see the difference on reading skills of when I was younger with limited internet skills […]
Dreaming in Digital
Perhaps I am showing my age, I grew up and until my junior year of high school, pre-internet. Google wasn’t even popular until long after I graduated high school. The web seems to attract a lot of blame for the problem of attention and the difficulty with close reading. Distraction has always been a problem, […]
Responding to Hayles and Trask
Before the internet, reading was usually done in slower, longer units of time than it is done today. However, I think that Carr’s and Hayles’s articles placed too much nostalgic emphasis on these long reading tasks like novels and scholarly articles, forgetting to mention that we still “skimmed” and “scanned” in a fast reading style before the […]
Hayles’ Reading & Trask Prompt
What did reading mean before the internet? We’ve had the discussion before about “no turning back”. That still stands, but it’s not as if books have disappeared. I just want to emphasize this “close reading” still exists and in most cases we are still expected to do it, at least to a degree. I don’t want to […]
Hayles, Trask Response
Before the internet and when people were still interested in reading physical books, close reading was something that everybody did. Because the internet was created, books and news articles and other literary pieces were placed on the internet. Those stories often had their own physical copy, but because they were online, people could access them […]
Reading with computers, but what about writing?
After finishing Hayle’s piece, I found myself trying to conceptualize what the “new” kind of digital reading would look like. Per her anecdotal date (which coincides with my experience), it does seem that our attention spans have become shorter, even at the collegiate level. Therefore, my first thought is that wikis are the future of […]
