How We Read
Hayles is asking these questions about the rise of digital reading and the decline of literary reading.
What is:
How to make the increased digital reading result in an increased reading ability
How do we marry the strategies of digital reading and the ability to comprehend the meaning of literary texts
This is the chance the debate over digital humanities provides.
What is seeing the working construction of an ideological reality
This is how Tompkins argues that this aspect of Western stories that allow them to be used as an escape.
What is the focus on physical survival
This theory focuses on why we interpret texts the way we do.
What is Critical Theory
Critical Race Theory.
What is race
This is a problem with Close Reading and a proposed solution.
What are scholars disdain for the formulaic results and instead favor reading methods that look at aesthetic?
This is a reason humanities departments find it difficult to transition into the digital world.
What is a lack of budget to recruit the necessary specialists
This role in Westerns is shown as inspirational and often serves a purpose in the development of the story.
What is pain
These theories play a big part in other theories but alone focus on economics, class conflict, and capitalism.
What are, the Marxist and New Historicism Theories
Marxist theory.
What is class
Examples include: Google searches, filtering keywords, skimming, hyperlinking, "pecking" (pulling out a few items from a text), and fragmenting.
What is Hyper-Reading?
This is an argument presented against adding digital humanities to LTWR curriculum.
What is the level of practicality
These populations are ignored.
What is accurate representation of women and Natives
This deals with the repression of desires and the unconscious mind.
What is Psychoanalytic Theory
Feminist Theory
What is gender
This kind of reading uses a machine to detect patterns and analyzes data.
What is Distant Reading?
There is more at stake than just the medium of how we read.
What is the contradiction between individual genius and digital practice
This is one way the genre appeals to a mythic sense
What are, stories haunted with death
Composed of 3 waves, this set of theories are fostering the birth of Intersectionality and Queer Theory
What are Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Theories
Queer/Sexuality Theory
What is sexuality
This is the main argument of the paper
What is to explore a change in the way the LTWR discipline, approaches close reading versus digital reading and how the strategies of both intertwine
"Now it is time to rethink what reading is and how it works in the rich mixtures of words and images, sounds and animations, graphics and letters that constitute the environments of twenty-first-century literacies."
What is the main argument of the paper?
What is to be wary of digital momentum in the humanities.
"The best thing that the humanities could do at this moment, then, is not to embrace the momentum of the digital, the tech tsunami, but to resist it and to critique it."
This feature is often important but unrecognized in its role by casual readers.
What is the landscape
Examines the influence of race, and cultural differences when studying identities, canon formation, and representation
What is Race, Ethnicity, and Nationhood
This is derived from what society deems as normal behaviors and appearances
What is dis/ability