The Digital Reading Infrastructure:Meta-Concept,Methodology and Fields of Meaning
As an external environment and underlying structure for contemporary reading activities,digital reading infrastructure not only covers the Internet hardware equipment,facilities and physical environment,but also includes the data,programs and normative system of digital platforms,and connects with the interactive and inter-constructive relationship among the reading actors as well.Through the research method of"infrastructure inversion",this paper finds that the digital media platform is not a passive,neutral and invisible practice background,but its embedded agency profoundly influences the generation mode,symbolic mechanism and spatial-temporal structure of reading meanings,and reshapes the law of the ranking according to the proper order among the author,readers,text,media and other elements.At the same time,as the meaning of digital reading infrastructure"redundancy",its potential information overload,excessive linkage,information cocoon and other negative effects will bring great risks to the independence and innovation of human knowledge production.How to overcome the"entropy increase"phenomenon of digital reading and start the"negative entropy"process of knowledge innovation have become the questions essential in our times and reading researches must find the answer.
digital readingreading practiceknowledge infrastructureinfrastructural turnvital materialism
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维普
