Lecture et écriture du texte numérique

Nicholas Carr, now best known for “The Shallows,” a book critical of the Internet, said the Kindle would never succeed because, unlike the iPod, there was little content available for it.

Velocity, depth, breadth. These are the dimensions we can add to books, that are the gifts of a digital age, not gimmicks, glossy presentation and media-catching stunts. The text works. It stands and speaks for itself. It is not what we need to change.

“Thinking, Fast and Slow” by the Nobel laureate Daniel Kahneman, an exploration of thinking and intuition

Si seuls Google et Amazon arrivent donc aujourd’hui à faire pointer directement, à partir d’une url, un fragment qui aura circulé sur le web (site, réseaux sociaux, etc.) vers sa position exacte dans le texte auquel il renvoie, c’est (en partie) parce que ces plateformes sont fermées et imposent une vision figée du texte.

depuis toujours, on conserve dans les bibliothèques toutes sortes d’objets qui ne sont pas des livres, ni même parfois des documents écrits, du document d’archives aux objets de curiosités, aux peintures, bustes et sculptures, aux collections de numismatique, sans parler des nouveaux supports (DVD, etc.) et des nouveaux médias

Selon le sens littéral (…), ce mot signifie un lieu destiné pour y mettre des livres. Une bibliothèque est un lieu plus ou moins vaste, avec des tablettes ou des armoires, où les livres sont rangés sous différentes classes: nous parlerons de cet ordre à l’article CATALOGUE.

Dans sa définition implicite, la bibliothèque fonctionne ainsi comme une structure de rassemblement, d’organisation et de mise à disposition du savoir. C’est la double articulation, de l’espace physique et du contenu abstrait qui caractérise la bibliothèque moderne.

Our students have changed radically. Today’s students are no longer the people our educational system was designed to teach.  

A really big discontinuity has taken place.  One might even call it a "singularity"

Today’s students - K through college - represent the first generations to grow up with this new technology.

Dr. Gary Small says bringing younger and older people together helps optimize the neural circuitry for both generations.

Small, director of the UCLA Center on Aging, described results of research he and colleagues performed with volunteers between the ages of 55 and 76.

Carr's concern about the impact of the Internet on the way we think isn't misplaced. Small's research and other studies make it clear that the information explosion and the tools we employ to contain it affect cognition. But it will take time before it's clear whether we should mourn the old ways, celebrate the new, or learn to stop worrying and love the Net.

Carr originally came to prominence with the 2003 Harvard Business Review article "IT Doesn't Matter" and the 2004 book Does IT Matter? Information Technology and the Corrosion of Competitive Advantage (Harvard Business School Press). In these widely discussed works, he argued that the strategic importance of information technology in business has diminished as IT has become more commonplace, standardized and cheaper.

In 2005, Carr published the controversial [4] article "The End of Corporate Computing" in the MIT Sloan Management Review, in which he argued that in the future companies will purchase information technology as a utility service from outside suppliers.

Through his blog "Rough Type," Carr has been a critic of technological utopianism and in particular the populist claims made for online social production. In his 2005 blog essay titled "The Amorality of Web 2.0," he criticized the quality of volunteer Web 2.0 information projects such as Wikipedia and the blogosphere and argued that they may have a net negative effect on society by displacing more expensive professional alternatives.

In Theories of the Text (Greetham 1999), D. C. Greetham begins by observing that the word “text” derives from the Latin texere, which means “to weave, join together, plait, braid” and therefore “to construct, fabricate, build, or compose.” “Text,” he goes on to say, “is thus both literal and concrete on the one hand – the physical woven text – and figurative and conceptual on the other: a work of art and both the technical and imaginative procedures whereby this work is brought forth.” (26) Text understood in this way covers a range of phenomena, from the most concrete and material aspects of expression to the most abstract and ideal aspects of content and meaning.