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Divides in the Post-Print Classroom? Bringing Critical Social Research Methods to the Fore
The “post-print” classroom has gained significant momentum in the last decade, with some universities even attempting to mandate “e-text-only” curricula (Kolowich, 2010; Graydon, Urbach-Buholz and Kohen, 2011). The impact this trend has on a range of practical concerns, from literacy and comprehension to classroom and programmatic assessment, should no doubt be a key focus of pedagogical research. But so, too, should students’ and instructors’ perceptions of this shifting environment. What variations exist within groups of students engaging in digital reading practices? How do their experiences differ from those of their instructors? Critical social research methodologies can help gain necessary insight into individual perceptions of digital reading practices. Perhaps more importantly, such methods also enable us to search for the ways in which structural factors such as gender and socioeconomic status may shape variation in such perceptions - and ultimately, how to adapt our practices and tools accordingly.
Jane Lausten - 03.10.2018 - 16:03
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From Codex to Code: Computational Poetics and the Emergence of the Self- Reading Text
So irretrievably connected is the act of reading to works of print that any comparable digital engagement with a text often seems best considered as a unique activity of its own. Whatever we are doing with words viewed via electronic screens, doggedly poking at them with our fingers, moving them about from document to document with a simple double-click, or jumping erratically from one link to another in an ever-growing, highly fluid hypertext, we are not “reading” them. In her book, Paper Knowledge: Toward a Media History of Documents (Duke UP, 2014), Lisa Gitelman similarly adds, “[w]ritten genres in general are familiarly treated as if they were equal to or coextensive with the sorts of textual artifacts that habitually embody them. . . . Say the word ‘novel,’ for instance, and your auditors will likely imagine a printed book, even if novels also exist serialized in nineteenth century periodicals, published in triple-decker (multivolume) formats and loaded onto—and reimagined by the designee and users of—Kindles, Nook, and iPads” (3).
Jane Lausten - 03.10.2018 - 16:07
