Práticas de leitura na cultura digital : pensando o aprendizado da leitura no ensino superior.

Abstract

This work, titled READING PRACTICES IN DIGITAL CULTURE: thinking how learning to read at the university, is presented as a journey of studies whose main objective is to understand the field of reading from digital media and the internet. For this purpose, it makes a journey between what we think reading is from the printed culture to the new reading practices within the space of convergence, hypermedia and the adoption of new textual media and new technologies. This work involved both the literature on the concepts governing the reading field - text, reader, reading, literacy, hypertext, hypermedia, hiper-reading and hiper-reader - as a pragmatic research, which investigated and analyzed as the students of UNISC read and work with texts in two courses whose scope the text and reading. From this research, we confirmed that the hiperleitura is the most common practice among students in their academic activities and entertainment.This attempt to understand the reading field changes from the digital culture is a personal move for professional training of the author of this work and hopes to collaborate with learning to read at the university level, particularly in degree courses where she teaches, in the state of Maranhão. Our results show that all of us, agents of Education, we need to revise our ideas about how to educate a reader-citizen, able to make the text a tool for a better society. This work belongs to the line of research “Narrative processes, communication and poetic of Mestrado em Leitura e Cognição of the Post Graduate Studies in Universidade de Santa Cruz do Sul, Brazil.