Use the Internet to summarize the differences between people's reading methods and traditions in the information age.

The characteristic of the internet age is that people are no longer limited by space and time. As long as there is a network, people can browse all kinds of information around the world anytime and anywhere, and read all kinds of works they like at the same time. Restrictions on human freedom have been greatly reduced. On the internet, people can really do whatever they want sometimes. Needless to say, the appearance of the Internet has changed the lifestyle and reading mode of modern people. The way of online reading is more and more loved by many people, and it also has its incomparable advantages. However, whether online reading can really replace traditional reading is debatable. In domestic academic circles, many scholars have put forward different views and opinions on this issue. This paper will discuss the living conditions of traditional reading in the network era, so as to show that traditional reading also has incomparable advantages over online reading, and it also has its reasons and reasons for existence in our society where the Internet is popular.

1. Reading mode of network reading

Network reading is a new reading method brought by the change of text, which refers to the reading activity in the context of network culture, that is, the hypertext reading behavior of obtaining multimedia synthetic information and knowledge including text and completing the meaning construction with the help of computer and network technology, also known as "online reading". There are two ways to read: online reading and download reading. Online reading mainly means that users open relevant web pages on the Internet to find what they need, and read directly on the web pages, so as to obtain the information and knowledge they want. This way of reading has certain requirements for the speed of computers and networks. Reading after downloading mainly means that users download the information they need from relevant websites and store it on their own computers or other e-readers for reading. Generally speaking, these two reading methods depend on the internet and computers, and reading cannot be separated from these two carriers.

2. Advantages of online reading

As a new reading method, it naturally has advantages that other reading methods do not have. As far as online reading is concerned, it mainly has the following advantages.

First, the comprehensiveness of information and the convenience of search. The connectivity of the network enables readers from different countries and regions to exchange information across time and space constraints, and the unique hypertext link mode of the network makes the network form a huge information resource pool. Moreover, the storage space of a computer can carry more information than a paper carrier. It is estimated that nearly 6.5438+00000 pages of new information are published on the Internet every day, which is more than 10 times of the output of English books published in the world, and in the next three years, the content published on the Internet will exceed the total published in printed form since the invention of the printing press. The powerful information search function of the network speeds up readers' search for materials and information, saves the time for searching materials, facilitates readers' reading and shortens the time for obtaining information.

The second is to enhance the subjective initiative of readers. One of the most obvious advantages of the network is interactivity. Every reader can communicate and express his views and opinions through the internet, instead of being a passive receiver to a great extent like traditional reading. Therefore, readers can broaden their thinking, enhance their sense of participation and initiative, increase their initiative as the main body of reading, and stimulate their reading interests and hobbies.

Third, readers can gain more reading freedom. The virtuality of online reading can make readers free and unrestrained, eliminate all kinds of bad psychological factors in people's reading process, make readers play freely in the online world, and fully expound their views and opinions.

3. Disadvantages and disadvantages of online reading However, everything has two sides, and so does the network. It has many advantages as well as many disadvantages and defects. First of all, the Internet era is also an era of information explosion. A large amount of information is the biggest advantage and the biggest disadvantage of online reading. Too much information does not give people an accurate choice, because there is too much information in the online world, which changes at any time and finally becomes the same as garbage. Heterogeneous information makes it difficult to choose. As the subject of readers, it is sometimes difficult to judge what kind of information we need, so it finally becomes "nothing" and enters a paradox of reading. Because of this, how to acquire knowledge through reading is a very important issue. Whitehead said, "You have to wait until your textbooks are lost, your notes are burned, and all the details you memorized for the exam are forgotten. The rest is what you have learned. " Information is not equal to knowledge, and any information can only be regarded as knowledge if it is internalized into its own things. In addition, the quality of network information is mixed, and even the existence of all kinds of vulgar and yellow information resources makes some readers who don't have much judgment suffer greatly, which not only can't increase their knowledge, but also affects their healthy development.