Study Of Change Of Forms Of Medium On Peopled Ways Of Reading

Reading is regarded as the necessary means to obtain information.Through reading,human beings can know the world, inherit and spread civilization. Reading is often considered as one of the most basic social practical activities. As the carrier of information, the morphological cal features of medium exert a great influence on human being’s ways of reading. Human society has been through three major revolutions which are character medium, printing medium and digital medium,people’s ways of reading has shown distinctive characters in each medium. The forms of medium can influence people’s ways of reading. Form the aspects of reading’s main body, object process and so on. Under the digital medium environment, new medium forms, such as Internet, mobile phone and electronic reading, dramatically influence people’s reading habits.This paper trys to explore the problem: how the forms of medium influence people’s way of reading and selects Amazon’s reading machine Kindles, the representative medium as an example, and finally analyses the situation of people’s ways of reading.The first part of this paper explores and defines the forms of medium, people’s reading habits, in terms of theories and definitions. The second part describes the changes of people’s reading habits and the influences of forms of media in details,including the main body, location, object and process of reading. The third part of this paper investigates the new form of medium, Kindle and makes the conclusion under the influence of people’s reading habits, combing the content in the second part, and finally forecasts the development of people’s reading forms. The forth part makes some suggestions and solutions for the appearing situation for people’s reading habit.