Before the internet and when people were still interested in reading physical books, close reading was something that everybody did.\u00a0 Because the internet was created, books and news articles and other literary pieces were placed on the internet.\u00a0 Those stories often had their own physical copy, but because they were online, people could access them whenever they wanted.\u00a0 The increase in digital reading has lead to a decrease in reading physical books and in that regard the ability to “close read.”\u00a0 And when people lose one skill they pick up another to replace it; surface reading.<\/p>\n
Articles online are generally short and sweet, giving the reader a fast read to get all the necessary information.\u00a0 People are so used to that that they no longer close read and instead skim the surface to only get the gist of the idea.\u00a0 This is how people lose information or not get enough of it.\u00a0 So you skim twenty spaced out pages within a hundred page text and say that you know what its about.\u00a0 But you don’t.\u00a0 You haven’t read it.\u00a0 People lose so much context when they don’t close read.\u00a0 What is going to happen if the decline of close reading continues? Is the entire definition of reading going to change?<\/p>\n
The definition of reading has already changed.\u00a0 It changed when the internet was born and with it a virtual on demand text catalogue.\u00a0 It has gone from close reading of slow and thoughtful to a faster pace of skimming the surface and only getting a tenth of the information that you normally would get if you were to read with more caution.\u00a0 To keep up with the world and the fast pace of the internet, reading has become something that also moves at a faster pace.\u00a0 Reading is no longer one dimensional.\u00a0 The increase of different types of literature included in the discipline has changed the way we read.\u00a0 There are graphic novels, which has us looking at pictures.\u00a0 I for one cannot look at a picture for more than a minute before getting bored.\u00a0 The attention span has declined and has had a direct conflict with the way we read.\u00a0 We are no longer slow, careful readers, but fast readers who take things at face value and don’t read further because it takes too much time and energy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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