Lectures: lecture
Quelques lectures récentes (voir aussi l’étiquette reading sur diigo). Un peu d’extraits traduits et plus de références et d’extraits après le saut.
The Evolution From Linear Thought To Networked Thought – Publishing 2.0
Et si je faisais toutes mes lectures sur le web pas tant parce que mes manières de lire ont changé (…) mais parce que la manière dont JE PENSE a changé?
The Passion of Steve Jobs – Bits – Technology – New York Times Blog
“Que le produit soit bon ou mauvais n’a pas d’importance, le fait est que les gens ne lisent plus, » dit [S.J. à propos du Kindle]. « 40% des Américains lisent un livre ou moins par an? Le concept même est vicié au départ parce que les gens ne lisent plus. »
Steve Jobs Was Only Half-Right: People Do Read – Even Kids – They Just Do It Online – ReadWriteWeb
Une diète de media numériques serait-elle une mauvaise chose?
Dawn of the digital natives – is reading declining? | Technology | The Guardian
Je défie le National Endowment for the Arts de comparer le statut économique des liseurs compulsif de romans et des programmeurs compulsifs durant les 10 prochaines années. Lequel de ces deux groupes aura le plus de succès professionnel sous notre climat?
« Des étudiants aux professeurs, les gens montrent une forte tendance à un comportement superficiel, horizontal, papillonnant dans les bibliothèques numériques. La sur-navigation (power browsing) et le visionnage (viewing) se révèle la norme pour tous… La société est en train de s’abrutir. »
Pioneering research shows ‘Google Generation’ is a myth
des comportements de recherche qu’on attribue couramment aux utilisateurs les plus jeunes – impatience dans le recherche et la navigation et tolérance zéro pour le moindre délai à satisfaire leurs besoins d’information – sont aujourd’hui en train de devenir la norme pour tous les groupements d’âge, depuis les étudiants les plus jeunes jusqu’aux professeurs.
Stop Reading – Skim Dive Skim : eLearning Technology
la lecture effective de billets [de blogues] du début à la fin est à peu près disparue
Tous les extraits:
The Evolution From Linear Thought To Networked Thought – Publishing 2.0
I was thinking last night about books and why I don’t read them anyone
there’s something about the print vs. online dialectic that always seemed superficial to me.
Books are linear and foster concentration and focus, while the web, with all its hyperlinks, is kinetic, scattered, all over the place.
If I’m such a digital guy, then why do I have no interest in ebooks?
What if I do all my reading on the web not so much because the way I read has changed, i.e. I’m just seeking convenience, but because the way I THINK has changed?
We still retain an 18th Century bias towards linear thought.
Why 18th Century? Non-linear reading and in consequence praise for linear reading vs non-linear is way older. See Illich about monastic vs scholastic reading. – post by bibliothecaire
When I read online, I constantly follow links from one item to the next, often forgetting where I started. Sometimes I backtrack to one content “node” and jump off in different directions. There are nodes that I come back to repeatedly, like TechMeme and Google, only to start down new branches of the network.
Is there such a thing as networked human thought? Certain there is among a group of people enabled by a network — but what about for an individual, processing information via the web’s network?
online reading has a very important negative result:
lack of concentration.
Before reading, people networked to obtain and validate information.
The real question is how we manage the change from linear cognition to non-linear cognition.Are we going to recognize that this is an evolution in human consciousness and start valuing the types of effects that non-linear thought processes elicit? OR will we treat this as a plague to be eradicated and spend untold sums of money and energy trying to kill off the next great leap in human development?
I don’t feel a lack of concentration while reading/absorbing info in this way – if anything I feel it’s easier to concentrate for me. Isn’t that weird? Maybe it’s because I’m following my own train of thought (in the sense that I’m determining the narrative by deciding where to go next) rather than someone else’s?
When I do read fiction I find that I can’t put it down until I have read the whole story.
The Passion of Steve Jobs – Bits – Technology – New York Times Blog
Today he had a wide range of observations on the industry, including the Amazon Kindle book reader, which he said would go nowhere largely because Americans have stopped reading.
“It doesn’t matter how good or bad the product is, the fact is that people don’t read anymore,” he said. “Forty percent of the people in the U.S. read one book or less last year. The whole conception is flawed at the top because people don’t read anymore.”
Steve Jobs Was Only Half-Right: People Do Read – Even Kids – They Just Do It Online – ReadWriteWeb
The problem is not in readership decline, it seems, but in teen readership decline.
the younger generation like to consume media for free and they have come to expect free content through online extensions.
So is a diet of only digital media bad?
I wonder if reading novels is really better for you than reading online source about current events in terms of stretching your mind.
And because of blogs, forums, and email, I probably write several dozen pages worth of text each week, which is probably more than many members of previous generations can claim!
It is perhaps not accurate to consider all kinds of writing, as well as all kinds of reading, as equivalent. This lack of distinction between different types or levels of reading/writing looks like a major flaw in most of teh discussion about reading decline, etc.. – post by bibliothecaire
What is txt’ing if it’s not reading?
It’s extremely helpful to use hyperlinks to flow between information, especially if you need to find specific interest points, but it hinders as you haven’t had the full picture as the author intended.
Digital reading (but the story began much much earlier) tends to reduce information to facts, which is a good thing when you are looking for facts. But the thinking part, the « knowledge » part is now up to you, with little help. See Wikipedia, which is unchallenged (more and more) to give facts but totaly lacking of style in the writing of the articles. – post by bibliothecaire
Reading fiction is being replaced by multimedia story-telling (on the web, TV, movies, elsewhere).
I asked Steve Jobs about your post, and he said that people don’t read posts that long any more.
The secrete about the internet is that you need to know how to read to use it…
I am sure I am not alone in being able to say that I have never read as much during my life as in recent years
Dawn of the digital natives – is reading declining? | Technology | The Guardian
if people are reading less, why haven’t scores dropped more dramatically? The answer gets to the most significant sleight of hand of the NEA study: its studies are heavily biased towards words on a printed page
A recent study by the British Library of onscreen research activities found that « new forms of ‘reading’ are emerging as users ‘power browse’ … «
The only reason the intellectual benefits are not measurable is that they haven’t been measured yet.
I challenge the NEA to track the economic status of obsessive novel readers and obsessive computer programmers over the next 10 years. Which group will have more professional success in this climate?
internet users generally are better educated and more interested politically.
Response, Sunil Iyengar and Mark Bauerlein: There is good reason to be worried about declining rates of reading | Comment is free | The Guardian
« From undergraduates to professors, people exhibit a strong tendency towards shallow, horizontal, ‘flicking’ behaviour in digital libraries. Power browsing and viewing appear to be the norm for all … Society is dumbing down. »
National Endowment for the Arts Announces New Reading Study
Americans are reading less – teens and young adults read less often and for shorter amounts of time compared with other age groups and with Americans of previous years.
Americans are reading less well – reading scores continue to worsen, especially among teenagers and young males. By contrast, the average reading score of 9-year-olds has improved.
The declines in reading have civic, social, and economic implications – Advanced readers accrue personal, professional, and social advantages. Deficient readers run higher risks of failure in all three areas.
Pioneering research shows ‘Google Generation’ is a myth
A new study overturns the common assumption that the ‘Google Generation’ – youngsters born or brought up in the Internet age – is the most web-literate. The first ever virtual longitudinal study carried out by the CIBER research team at University College London claims that, although young people demonstrate an apparent ease and familiarity with computers, they rely heavily on search engines, view rather than read and do not possess the critical and analytical skills to assess the information that they find on the web.
research-behaviour traits that are commonly associated with younger users – impatience in search and navigation, and zero tolerance for any delay in satisfying their information needs – are now becoming the norm for all age-groups, from younger pupils and undergraduates through to professors.
La fin des livres ? – Nonfiction.fr le portail des livres et des idées
On ne peut que supposer, comme le fait le New York Times, que le PDG d’Apple comprend que la numérisation des livres (on pense surtout ici aux livres « poches » et aux livres de non fiction, les premiers étant par définition destinés à une lecture « nomade », les seconds seront ceux qui devraient le plus profiter des technologies numériques (les moteurs de recherches par exemple remplaceront peut-être les index)), devra à terme être intégré dans un objet plus large qui regroupera toutes les fonctionnalités que possède déjà un Iphone, par exemple.
Stop Reading – Skim Dive Skim : eLearning Technology
no one reads these days – they play. Blogs are the last gasp before virtual interactive education takes over the schools.
actual reading of items from start to finish is pretty much gone.
CNL – Synthèse de l’enquête sur la lecture et les loisirs multimédia des collégien(ne)s et lycéen(ne)s
Ceux qui ne Lisent jamais ou presque jamais de Livres (25% des répondants)
Ce sont plus fréquemment des garçons ;
Leur activité préférée : utiliser un ordinateur et surfer sur l’Internet ;
Ceux qui lisent des livres plusieurs heures par jour (8% des répondants) :
Selon François de Singly, l’examen des enquêtes Pratiques culturelles du ministère de la Culture et de la Communication (1973 ; 1988-1989) et Loisirs de l’INSEE (1967 ; 1987-1988) permet de constater une diminution importante de la proportion de grands lecteurs (plus de 2 livres lus par mois) chez les jeunes, avec une baisse de 16% chez les lycéens contre une baisse de 5% pour l’ensemble de la population.Représentations de la lecture chez les lycéens qui estiment lire moins d’une année à l’autre :
- Soit la lecture scolaire, considérée non comme une vraie lecture mais comme un travail, est opposée à la lecture plaisir, synonyme de détente et de loisir. Les prescriptions scolaires concurrencent la lecture personnelle.
- Soit la lecture, quelle qu’elle soit, est considérée négativement, synonyme de solitude, de passivité, d’enfermement et d’effort. Cette représentation semble fondée sur une rupture radicale avec le modèle légitimiste selon lequel la lecture est un moyen de valorisation sociale et intellectuelle.
Notre but n’est pas de viser une compétence purement technique, mais de donner aux étudiants une « culture » qui leur permette de devenir des utilisateurs « actifs » d’outils auxquels ils seront inévitablement confrontés dans leur vie sociale et professionnelle : des utilisateurs qui maîtrisent – plutôt que de subir… – et tirent profit de l’outil, en mesurent les effets indirects, voire participent de ce que seront ses infléchissements futurs.
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