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Spiro, Klautke, and Johnson

“In an online forum for discussion, the material leaves a permanent trace that can be searched with keywords or with thematic tags and that allow conceptual integration of material across time and topic that would be very difficult to achieve with face-to-face classes. In other words, in online discussions we can have a kind of reading as weaving that is not an available option in face-to-face interchanges.” (p. 49)

Spiro, R. J., Klautke, H. & Johnson, A. K. (2015). All bets are off: How certain kinds of reading to learn on the web are totally different from what we learned from research on traditional text comprehension and learning from text. In R. Spiro, M. DeSchryver, M. Hagerman, P. Morsink & P. Thompson (Eds). Reading at a crossroads? Disjunctures and continuities in current conceptions and practices (pp. 45-50). New York: Routledge.

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interactivity

 

Warschauer

Interactivity in e-reading will of course extend beyond interacting with texts to greater interaction with other readers.  A number of sites already exist for readers to interact, such as Goodreads, which allows readers to recommend books, keep track of what they have read or would like to read, share favorite quotes, and form book clubs.  Potentially more interesting are sites that integrate social interaction within texts themselves.  For example, Amazon now allows people not only to manage their own e-books, highlights, and notes online, but also to follow other readers to see any public notes they have made and to view passages in books that have been most commonly highlighted by others.

Warschauer, M. (2015). From computers and the Web to mobile devices and e-texts: The transition to digital reading continues. In R. Spiro, M. DeSchryver, M. Hagerman, P. Morsink, & P. Thompson (Eds.), Reading at a crossroads? Disjunctures and continuities in current conceptions and practices (pp. 65-73). New York: Routledge.

Also see:

reading as weaving
massively multiplying crossroads