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Comunicar Journal 23: Music and Communication (Vol. 12 - 2004)
From Gutenberg galaxy to Internet galaxy
David-Jesús Moscoso-Sánchez
Reading, like writing is the most important human communication tool excluding spoken language. As language, writing and therefore reading changes through times with regards to elements that go beyond the act of reading. In our days reading in a book or via any digital technology, shows a new model that we characterize here mainly by its flexibility. This paper undertakes the way of reading is actively built through social changes becoming a window to understand society.
Keywords
Sociology, communication, structure, reading, Internet, itinerance, postmodernity