新媒体的出现改变了人们的阅读习惯

New Media Are Changing People’s Reading Habits

我们正处于数字技术迅猛发展,被广泛应用的时代,改变着一代人的生活方式。尤其是年轻人作为数字技术的主力军和使用者,参与和见证着一系列变革。年轻人生活的方式发生了重大转变,可以同时使用多种媒体,例如,一边看电视一边发送电子邮件,或者一边读书一边通过手机软件进行对话。社交网络尤其是新闻文章、博客和其他共享链接,就是在推广信息阅读和信息共享。它打破了场所的局限性、缩短了信息传播时间,使人们随时随地阅读。

The large-scale diffusion of digital technology has brought about great changes of people’s lifestyle, which can be most clearly manifested by the young people today. They like to gener ate and c onsume reading on laptops and mobile phones, which is quite different from the traditional reading in libraries or families. The reading form of new media are liked by the younger generation mainly consists in their preference for “sharing reading experience”, meeting other readers, forging identity(especially as readers), and encouraging others to participate in the website. Based on some anecdotal data collected online from book-centered networks, it can be found that the text, other texts, the complex reciprocation of instant messages between other readers, and other social media are just new ways of reading, where the readers themselves are often literary critics as well. This may shake the position of critics, who regard readers as consumers of advertising only.