Guess what? Right now you are screening. This new term has been coined to describe the kind of reading that is done on a computer screen, as opposed t

Guess what? Right now you are screening. This new term has been coined to describe the kind of reading that is done on a computer screen, as opposed to in hard copy. It’s already in the Urban Dictionary, but so are a lot of other words like screensavered (inebriated) and screenplan (plans for your leisure time) that aren’t exactly in our everyday vocabulary.

I think that we certainly do treat screen texts differently, we skim more, our eye moves around the page more and we take off on link paths. But is the actual act of reading changed? If someone reads a story in a newspaper and someone else reads a story on stuff.co.nz - are they significantly different? What do you think?

says RICHARDTHECRUSADER BLOG