Digital Social Reading
If you can name it, you can tag it. Tags are brief labels that organize digital information and facilitate keyword searches. Readers tag a text for many reasons such as classifying information or marking a textual boundary or tracking shifts in voice or character.
A word cloud is a visual display of words from a text–the more frequent the word in the text, the bigger the word in the cloud. Readers use word clouds to analyze meanings in a text. As a pre-reading activity, students can analyze a word cloud and infer what the text is about.
Analytics is the discovery of meaningful patterns in data. Educational applications of social reading will depend heavily on the use of visualization to capture patterns of student activity. For example, teachers could use analytics to visualize students’ meaning-making behavior as they read their way through a text.
Reading invariably provokes a response. Social reading turns a reader’s natural instinct to “talk back to the text” into a dialogue with others in which one comment provokes another. The result is a collaborative commentary.
In medieval times, marginalia represented the work of a solitary monk in a scriptorium. Today, marginalia can be both a private act and a social act thanks to e-readers like the Kindle that facilitate sharing. The NY Times (March 4, 2011) describes digital marginalia as a ‘bridge between online and literary culture.”
An annotation is any note or mark you make while reading a text. Scholars in both the humanities and the sciences annotate texts whenever they underline key words or highlight important passages. Annotating digital text is simple, just drag the cursor over a part of the text to mark it up.
An annotation is any note or mark you make while reading a text. Scholars in both the humanities and the sciences annotate texts whenever they underline key words or highlight important passages. Annotating digital text is simple, just drag the cursor over a part of the text to mark it up.
Copyright © 2023 · eComma (genesis) on Genesis Framework · WordPress · Log in
We use cookies and external scripts to enhance your experience. By using this site you are accepting the use of such cookies.
Privacy settings
General cookie information
This site uses cookies – small text files that are placed on your machine to help the site provide a better user experience. In general, cookies are used to retain user preferences, store information for things like shopping carts, and provide anonymized tracking data to third party applications like Google Analytics. As a rule, cookies will make your browsing experience better. However, you may prefer to disable cookies on this site and on others. The most effective way to do this is to disable cookies in your browser. We suggest consulting the Help section of your browser or taking a look at the About Cookies website which offers guidance for all modern browsers.
Which cookies and scripts are used and how they impact your visit is specified on the left. You may change your settings at any time. Your choices will not impact your visit.
Read the entire privacy policy.
NOTE: These settings will only apply to the browser and device you are currently using.
Google Analytics cookies
We use cookies to analyze our website traffic. We also share information about your use of our site with our analytics partners who may combine it with other information that you’ve provided to them or that they’ve collected from use of their services. Cookies are alphanumeric identifiers that we transfer to your computer’s hard drive through your web browser. They make it possible for us to store your navigation habits, recognize your browser when you visit. It is possible to prevent cookies from being used in your browser by turning the feature off, but in order to make your experience better, your browser must be set to accept cookies.