Topic F - Communication
Work Team F-50: Online reading and writing
Initial questions
Which are the differences between online reading and writing and reading and writing papers and books?
How do digital natives and immigrants use online reading and writing?
How have digital natives learned to read and write online?
How can we characterize a critical online reader and writer?
How do we can contribute to educate critical online readers and writers?
Taglist
digital alphabetism/analphabetism, discourse analysis, communicative competence, writing, hypertext/hypermedia, reading, linguistics, language
Work Group description
Reading and writing online or books and papers are very different. On the screen, we sail thought the Internet, we use mouse, keyboard and menus and frames; we read more often and in more different contexts: mobile phone, computer, agenda, etc. We read new texts, written by authors coming all around the world; we read more spam and in several languages, we read images and videos; we read texts linked to millions of other documents. We read with dictionaries, automatic translators and encyclopaedias online. Reading is a more frequent and functional task, but also more difficult.
The group explores this subject with an interdisciplinary optics, from areas as social communication, linguistics, psychology, pedagogy, teacher training, informational literacy, ethnography or journalism.
- efore the discussion of communications (12-29 of November) we have prepared a series of online workshops that will be published progressively.
Do you want to take part in it?
