tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2299290288574300127.post1390703566636822003..comments2023-10-20T07:38:52.890-07:00Comments on Crook's Shadow: What if newspapers didn't exist?Mikehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11724993565039798269noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2299290288574300127.post-35174361168273807032009-02-16T05:58:00.000-08:002009-02-16T05:58:00.000-08:00"Reading" online will never be the same! -- "Scree..."Reading" online will never be the same! -- "Screening" enters the<BR/>online vocabulary.<BR/><BR/>Do you "screen" news online, or do you "read" news in print<BR/>newspapers? -- A new word has been coined to refer to reading<BR/>information online, changing the way we take in information<BR/><BR/>by Dan Bloom<BR/><BR/>NEW YORK (RUSHPRNEWS) -- What you are doing now is not reading, but<BR/>"screening." Yes, you are at this very moment screening the text<BR/>printed digitally on this computer screen. You are not reading text on<BR/>a paper surface; you are "screening" this article through the lens of<BR/>the computer screen in front of you. A new word is born -- screening!<BR/><BR/>When a top computer industry writer at the New York Times was told<BR/>about this new term, he told RushPRnews in a one-word email note:<BR/>"Hmmmmmmm."<BR/><BR/>Screening? Can anyone just coin a new word and make it stick? No, but<BR/>new words are coined every day, and some stick and some don't. Time<BR/>will tell whether or not "screening" (to mean "reading information on<BR/>a computer screen, as distinct from reading a print newspaper or<BR/>magazine or book") will stay with us or not. For now, the word has<BR/>been accepted by the editors at urbandictionary.com and is listed<BR/>here:<BR/><BR/>http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=screening<BR/><BR/>Screening is defined as: "To read text on a computer screen, cellphone<BR/>screen, Kindle screen or PDA screen or BlackBerry screen; replaces the<BR/>term "reading" which now only refers to reading print text on paper."<BR/><BR/>Example: "I hate reading print newspapers now. I do all my screening online."<BR/><BR/>The word is so new, not everyone has seen it yet. And many do not<BR/>agree with its coinage.<BR/>Amit Gilboa, an Israeli writer living in Singapore, told RushPRnews:<BR/>"No, it's still reading. Whether in a book, a print newspaper,<BR/>chalkboard, whiteboard, it's still reading words made up of letters.<BR/>Screening is still reading."<BR/><BR/>However, Hidetoshi Abe in Tokyo, Japan, told this reporter he likes<BR/>the new term and agrees it fits our new Internet age. "I think<BR/>'screening' makes perfect sense to represent the way we now take in<BR/>information via computer screens. It's a whole new ballgame."<BR/><BR/>Reading, of course, is a complex cognitive process of decoding symbols<BR/>printed on<BR/>a paper surface for the purpose of deriving meaning (reading<BR/>comprehension) and/or constructing meaning, according to scholars.<BR/>Written information on a<BR/>printed page is received by the retina, processed by the primary<BR/>visual cortex, and interpreted in Wernicke's area.<BR/><BR/>But when we "read" online (or "screen", in the new coinage), the<BR/>digitalized information is processed in a different way. Reading<BR/>online is the same thing as reading on a paper surface in a book or<BR/>magazine or newspaper.<BR/><BR/>Reading on a print paper surface is a means of language acquisition,<BR/>of communication, and of sharing information and ideas. Screening on<BR/>the Internet is a horse<BR/>of a different color.<BR/><BR/>Readers of print paper texts use a variety of reading strategies to<BR/>assist with decoding (to translate symbols into sounds or visual<BR/>representations of language), and comprehension. Screening online uses<BR/>other strategies, and the information is processed by our brains in a<BR/>different way as well.<BR/><BR/>Reading text on print paper is now an important way for the general<BR/>population in many societies to access information and make meaning.<BR/>However, a new form of reading, called "screening" now takes place when a<BR/>person "reads" text on a computer screen or PDA screen or cellphone<BR/>screen. This form of reading, now called "screening", is a very<BR/>different form of communcation.<BR/><BR/>You have just "screened" your very first article online using this new<BR/>term. You are now an Internet screener. Congratulations, and welcome<BR/>to this amazing new world.<BR/><BR/>Comments are more than welcome, pro and con.DANIELBLOOMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05130493903696077379noreply@blogger.com