If you read digital texts differently?

If you read digital texts differently?
Horst Mueller of Neuro Linguist predicts the end of the reading culture, but he gets tangled up in some inconsistencies
To the book fair can already celebrate the disappearance of book culture, even if no one knows how the development will continue. In 500 years, the neuro-linguist said Horst Mueller of the University of Bielefeld pretty carefully over the radio would be read Germany, only a few people who could most everyday and work without it, write something and read it. Instead, we'll talk to machines, if they give instructions that show in pictures, would like what to do: "The digital media," he predicted, "will disappear from the Scriptures." They would be replaced by more complex techniques.
The culture - and the market - the printed book is admittedly not much older than 500 years. The disappearance of the book would be perhaps even a return before the invention of printing, but on a whole new technological level, because communication has become even without printed text is no longer local, but global. During that time, however, the oral culture was superseded by the written culture, will now replace the electronic media, the print culture with their cognitive achievements. However, remember, so you have to, there was always the criticism that the literary culture of the people duly disciplined and forced new physical and mental skills have what is sometimes viewed not only as sublimation, but also as alienation.
Just being drudgery of writing and learning to read is torture, which does not take place solely at the cognitive level, as every child must learn early in his school career: starting from the correct holding a pen to the severity of fine motor skills to a legible, the standard meets produce writing, to the silent and solitary reading of long texts of letters columns merged, with which people withdraw from society. If the shapes of letters with the pen and maybe even a sporty aesthetic component, so looking at the letters desert looks like a sensory deprivation, which stimulates a hallucinatory compensation, like fantasy called.
Deserts in the text of literacy
Mueller also confirmed as that reading only once before the hearing is an abstract activity: When reading is lost among other things, the emphasis during the debate, the facial expression of the speaker and his gestures. These are all clues as to how a sentence is to understand the needs become apparent upon reading of letter strings only. However, speaking and listening is already quite a task multitasking while writing and reading is a much more monotonous work already. Is therefore possible by the members of literacy in the media multitasking environment so frightening?
The conversation with the neuro-linguist was all about how the digital reading differs from print reading, even if the interviewer and interviewee here often talked past each other. For Müller, the difference for older brains is like his insignificant if done for a long reading life. Then you could say undamaged "highly efficient media," So turn to digital. It was different at a young age but when you read books not only digital, but "even directly in the Web-based deals with texts". So if we were reading texts on paper, so the information is "impoverished," the text was a "barren desert lead." Since it had to be "open" until "it takes to read a book." But if they did so, then one could dedicate themselves to the whole: "Everything is colorful, which means action and dynamism, the brain develops," says neuro-linguist describes the advantages of abstract desert. On the other hand, was the site Colorful and Turbulent already exists. This would distracting information, such as the battery level or incoming emails. The exhausted then obviously the imagination, so the lack of perception, be compensated by self-generated images must.
The joy of haptics and the distraction of the colorful and dynamic
Asked whether the concentration would be an eBook is not just possible, says Mueller, ideally this should go, but it lacked the tactile information, the sound of the paper, what do you do with your fingers, etc. Then the reading experience is different. But this distinction between digital and printed text but is a little clever thing, because you can keep the eBook and operate entirely in the hands has, sounds can be customized according to preference. Actually was just a matter of habit, but then also a "multi-modal connectivity," which makes it more "fun", but also serves to save what they read better. However, even the sound of the leaves would be quite a change, one wonders, what distinguishes this from other distractions?
It is interesting that although Mueller speaks to the website with the colorful and dynamic, but one wonders what with picture books or illustrated books, is indeed already leaving the desert like the pure text and provide some distraction related?
As Muller points out, in experiments rather stark contrasts are constructed, which then of course the differences between digital and printed text over the top. Sun brain scans were made by people who read on a screen as a text in a book, and of those who read a text in an "animated web environment." As can be had from the outset, no difference between digital and printed texts read out, the it as such, at least for one eBook that hardly exist anymore. Texts do not even have websites with animated graphics surrounded, while books can be well not only text but also pictures and just, it is also very important to have that layout the pages. For in-depth reading not invite any organization.
Highly distributed brain activity
Mueller says, could determine when such test arrangements are that savvy Webleser had a "highly distributed brain activity", which shows that they combine many activities. It could be overcome so many tasks that would not be necessary to ensure the information conveyed by Scripture alone to take. Therefore, the resources could deduct from the reading process. However, readers must not only illustrated in books, but also in newspapers and magazines with a deliberate thwarting of the concentrated attention of readers expect if they ever even advertising is inserted.
Would also like reading the screen when socialized and trained more, but find instead a reduction of reading, the neuro-linguist eventually. Would no longer about manuals for printers or for complicated military equipment offered as texts but as a kind of comic. Of the younger man was "no longer able to read longer, more coherent texts - or want to read it." This might be an exaggeration, especially since so many people never go not only to universities, where they pass the reading and writing, but also just write on the Internet and read
However, the language has been simplified even before the Internet, which is called the radio audibility and what practicing mirror and Co. for a long time: If possible, no subordinate clauses more, and certainly not the complex and convoluted sentence structures as input during the Enlightenment or were commonplace. What an intellectual adventure it can be to track almost page-long, meandering sentences of Kant and Hegel and in the end to find the reference back to the beginning. And just as exciting as it may lead one to think about different aspects of time to a conclusion without obsessive need to reduce the complexity. It's quite possible that this desire will die out in the text, the desire for textual adventure writing and life.