Media, Information and Technoculture 2000F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: The Daily Courant, Restoration (1660), Responsible Government
22 Dec 2016
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Individualism (cid:862)da(cid:374)gers(cid:863) of pri(cid:448)ate readi(cid:374)g: people could secretly get information from books threat to powers during the inquisition, suspicious when people do a lot of private reading, potentially subversive to authorities. Mobile reading (octavo: can bring books wherever, not confined, pocketbook. Silent/vocalized reading: many ways of reading that was not silent (family reading, sewing, newspaper were often read out loud) Lower class experience reading aloud (sharing text), public context. Women not considered full citizens, reading gave them knowledge. Novels/fiction: fear unleashed emotions, fiction novel was a problem - thought that it would arose dangerous emotion through women. Compare paintings (j. opie; j-b greuze: father reads the bible to his family and kids. Critical reading: different depths of reading, reading things and critique what you read, not adding new knowledge but to revise knowledge. Intensive: reads absorb in the book: extensive: skimming, browsing, chapter hoping, abundance of books now, sample more things. Because of skimming, browsing, you need the above listed changes.
