The Book and the Screen. A New Paradigm of Reading and a New Type of Culture
The Book and the Screen. A New Paradigm of Reading and a New Type of Culture

Summary/Abstract: The new technologies determine a paradigm shift at the level of reading, through the transition from book to the electronic screen, from the classical reading to the digital reading. The option for reading on the screen, in the context of the universal fascination of technology, is associated with the even more clearer departure from the book. Beyond its technological advantages and attractions, digital reading could determine a surface culture, of information, not of substance, of quantity, not of quality. The risk of the digital reading is the virtual culture, in its negative sense, of possibility, not of reality. This kind of reading, exclusively practiced, can lead to the failure of the act of knowledge. The solution is provided by the complementarity of paradigms and by the comprehensive culture. Book and technology should be viewed as complementary instruments of culture and knowledge, which act synergistically and creatively. The Borgesian Library is an endless Babel, populated by books and by digital devices too, which open together a large window to knowledge and culture.

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