Are the Internet and printed products interchangeable media?

Ring, Klaus

IFLA Council and General Conference / .
(ReLIS:jul:juljin:6731)

Abstract:

Many studies have shown that the competitive struggle between the new medium Computer and the traditional media of the educated classes cannot be reduced to the trivial cliché “The computer is causing the disappearance of cultural reading techniques”. A current example is the study “Reading habits in Germany in the new millennium”, initiated by the Reading Foundation in cooperation with the Federal Ministry of Education and the weekly news magazine Der Spiegel. The study concludes that among the sector of computer users “there is a definite correlation with frequent and intensive reading”. Furthermore computer users have a greater affinity to books and reading, possibly because of their normally higher education standards but also because of their greater curiosity and imaginative potential. They read nearly five times as many non-fiction books as non-users

Creation: 2003
Keywords: Internet ; Documentos electrónicos

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