Maybe this story should not have been 'screened'
Maybe this story should not have been 'screened'
By Dan Bloom
What you are doing now is not reading, but "screening." Yes, you are at this very moment screening the textprinted digitally on this computer screen. You are not reading text on a paper surface; you are "screening" this article through the lens of the computer screen in front of you. A new word is born -- screening!
When a top computer industry writer at the New York Times was told about this new term, he responded in a one-word email note:"Hmmmmmmm."
Screening? Can anyone just coin a new word and make it stick? No, but new words are coined every day, and some stick and some don't. Time will tell whether or not "screening" (to mean "reading information on a computer screen, as distinct from reading a print newspaper or
magazine or book") will stay with us or not. For now, the word has been accepted and listed by the editors at urbandictionary.com.
Screening is defined as: "To read text on a computer screen, cellphonescreen, Kindle screen or PDA screen or BlackBerry screen; replaces the term "reading" which now only refers to reading print text on paper."
Example: "I hate reading print newspapers now. I do all my screening online."
The word is so new, not everyone has seen it yet. And many do not agree with its coinage.
Amit Gilboa, an Israeli writer living in Singapore, declared: "No, it's still reading. Whether in a book, a print newspaper, chalkboard, whiteboard, it's still reading words made up of letters. Screening is still reading."
However, Hidetoshi Abe in Tokyo, Japan, told this reporter he likes the new term and agrees it fits our new Internet age. "I think 'screening' makes perfect sense to represent the way we now take in information via computer screens. It's a whole new ballgame."
Reading, of course, is a complex cognitive process of decoding symbols printed on a paper surface for the purpose of deriving meaning (reading comprehension) and/or constructing meaning, according to scholars. Written information on a printed page is received by the retina, processed by the primary visual cortex, and interpreted in Wernicke's area.
But when we "read" online (or "screen", in the new coinage), the digitalized information is processed in a different way. Reading online is not the same thing as reading on a paper surface in a book or magazine or newspaper.
You have just "screened" your very first article online using this new term. You are now an Internet screener. Congratulations, and welcome
to this amazing new world.
Bloom may be contacted at danbloom@gmail.com
By Dan Bloom
What you are doing now is not reading, but "screening." Yes, you are at this very moment screening the textprinted digitally on this computer screen. You are not reading text on a paper surface; you are "screening" this article through the lens of the computer screen in front of you. A new word is born -- screening!
When a top computer industry writer at the New York Times was told about this new term, he responded in a one-word email note:"Hmmmmmmm."
Screening? Can anyone just coin a new word and make it stick? No, but new words are coined every day, and some stick and some don't. Time will tell whether or not "screening" (to mean "reading information on a computer screen, as distinct from reading a print newspaper or
magazine or book") will stay with us or not. For now, the word has been accepted and listed by the editors at urbandictionary.com.
Screening is defined as: "To read text on a computer screen, cellphonescreen, Kindle screen or PDA screen or BlackBerry screen; replaces the term "reading" which now only refers to reading print text on paper."
Example: "I hate reading print newspapers now. I do all my screening online."
The word is so new, not everyone has seen it yet. And many do not agree with its coinage.
Amit Gilboa, an Israeli writer living in Singapore, declared: "No, it's still reading. Whether in a book, a print newspaper, chalkboard, whiteboard, it's still reading words made up of letters. Screening is still reading."
However, Hidetoshi Abe in Tokyo, Japan, told this reporter he likes the new term and agrees it fits our new Internet age. "I think 'screening' makes perfect sense to represent the way we now take in information via computer screens. It's a whole new ballgame."
Reading, of course, is a complex cognitive process of decoding symbols printed on a paper surface for the purpose of deriving meaning (reading comprehension) and/or constructing meaning, according to scholars. Written information on a printed page is received by the retina, processed by the primary visual cortex, and interpreted in Wernicke's area.
But when we "read" online (or "screen", in the new coinage), the digitalized information is processed in a different way. Reading online is not the same thing as reading on a paper surface in a book or magazine or newspaper.
You have just "screened" your very first article online using this new term. You are now an Internet screener. Congratulations, and welcome
to this amazing new world.
Bloom may be contacted at danbloom@gmail.com
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