Scroll

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Scrolling is a way of getting around a book in order to read . Leafing through a book or writing, or turning over the pages, especially in order to briefly familiarize oneself with the content, denotes a form of media use that ranges from "leafing through" to "leafing through" and "peeling off" as well as "leafing through" to "turning back and forth" and is the opposite of reading through a book or a piece of writing from front to back.

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In cultural history , different traditions and types of scrolling can be distinguished in the literature of the early modern period , the Baroque and Romanticism , and changing ideas about books as carriers of data can be identified. The practice of leafing through Bibles and hymn books has its own tradition with instructions on how to use it correctly. The oracle practice of accidentally opening a page (so-called "Biblestick") has also been established in his "Confessions" since Augustine's famous reading scene of the "great lege". Ever since the introduction of tables of contents and indexes of terms in late antiquity (for example in Pliny the Elder "Historia Naturalis" in 35 vols.), Leafing through books has not only been established as a cultural technique of successive appropriation, but also as optional access to relevant information.

In the 18th century, leafing through books also became a figure of reflection in novels since Laurence Sternes "Life and opinion of Sir Tristram Shandy Gentleman" (1759–1767). Especially in the second half of the 20th century, leafing through as a cultural technique, the possibilities of literary narration and the conditions of the book as well as the haptic experience itself were thematized and used literarily in experimental literature. A distinction can be made between different types of scrolling: general, undifferentiated scrolling, in which there is only a page turning or flipping over, as well as rapid scrolling, which is generally judged to be unsuitable for reading and literary reception; Furthermore, an encyclopaedic scrolling that gives reading instructions through reference arrows in the articles of the texts and thus still gives reading instructions, but plays with the possibility of not having to follow the reading instructions but being able to make your own connections. Another form of scrolling is a rather disordered scrolling that does not give any reading instructions. A special type of book that invites you to leaf through is the flip book .

In terms of media history , scrolling through digital documents in the present can be compared to the movement of reading in antiquity , in which the handling of texts was created through scrolling. Scrolling or swiping on a touch screen is more similar to the use of the roll form of papyrus and parchment in ancient times. The differences between scrolling simulated on the screen and the cultural techniques of dealing with physical books are receiving increasing attention in research.

"To think about the future of reading means, first and foremost, to think about the relationship between reading and hands."

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Thanks to the manageability of mobile devices such as smartphones , the haptic is now the focus of attention when reading. The philosopher Michel Serres called the networked generation “thumbs” because of their appropriation of the world via the touchscreen of the smartphone. In the shift from leafing through to wiping, from the delimitable paper page to flowing text, the haptic, as capturing and understanding the world with the hand, is also moving more into the center. Serres distinguishes between a book and an encyclopedia, which evoke different reading and thinking styles. While the lexicon is leaped back and forth in leaps and bounds and the eyes wandered over pages and key words, a book is read more linearly in a given order.

On the e-book reader , the pages are moved like on the touchscreen; when reading screen notes, the instrumentalist can use a foot switch to scroll through the pages.

As early as 1965, Frank Herbert described a fictional device on which a book is stored in his SF novel Der Wüstenplanet . The device already offered the adjustment to a legible font size and the often typical operation with tapping on one or the other page to scroll.

literature

  • Matthias Bickenbach: Opening, Turning, Closing: The Cultural Technology of Browsing and the Differences between the Book as an Object and Digital Texts. In: Nicolas Pethes, Gabor Kelemen (Ed.): Philology in the making in the digital Age . = Digital Humanities Vol. 1) transcipt: Bielfeld 2019, pp. 163–176.
  • Harun Maye: Scrolling / Zapping. Studies in the cultural technique of reading places since the 18th century . Diaphanes, Zurich 2019, ISBN 978-3-03734-951-9 .
  • Christoph Benjamin Schulz: Poetiken des Pages (=  Monika Schmitz-Emans [Hrsg.]: Literature - Knowledge - Poetics . Volume 4 ). Georg-Olms-Verlag, Hildesheim / Zurich / New York 2015, ISBN 978-3-487-15256-1 ( limited preview in the Google book search).
  • Andrew Piper: Book was there. Reading in Electronic Times . Chicago, London 2012.

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Harun Maye: Scroll . In: Heiko Christians, Matthias Bickenbach, Nikolaus Wegmann (eds.): Historical dictionary of media usage . tape 1 . Böhlau, Cologne / Weimar / Vienna 2015, ISBN 978-3-412-22152-2 , pp. 135-148 .
  2. ^ Gotthilf Lorenz :: An attempt at a textbook for country school teacher seminars . Berlin 1790, p. 23 .
  3. ↑ Christoph Benjamin Schulz: Poetiken des Blätters (=  Monika Schmitz-Emans [Hrsg.]: Literature - Knowledge - Poetics . Volume 4 ). Georg-Olms-Verlag, Hildesheim / Zurich / New York 2015, ISBN 978-3-487-15256-1 ( limited preview in the Google book search).
  4. ^ Nils Röller : Temporality updated . The consolation of philosophy on the smartphone. In: Oliver Ruf (ed.): Smartphone aesthetics . On the philosophy and design of mobile media (= Oliver Ruf [Hrsg.]: Medien- und Gestaltungsästhetik . Volume 1 ). transcript, Bielefeld 2018, ISBN 978-3-8376-3529-4 ( limited preview in Google book search).
  5. ^ Matthias Bickenbach: Opening, Turning, Closing: The Cultural Technology of Browsing and the Differences between the Book as an Object and Digital Texts . In: Nicolas Pether, Gabor Kelemen (Ed.): Philology in the making in the digital Age . transcript, Bielefeld 2019, p. 163-176 .
  6. ↑ Andrew Piper: Book was there. Reading in Electronic Times . Chicago, London 2012, p. 3 .
  7. ↑ Lisa Gotto : To be mobile . How the smartphone gets the pictures running. In: Oliver Ruf (ed.): Smartphone aesthetics . On the philosophy and design of mobile media (= Oliver Ruf [Hrsg.]: Medien- und Gestaltungsästhetik . Volume 1 ). transcript, Bielefeld 2018, ISBN 978-3-8376-3529-4 ( limited preview in Google book search).
  8. ↑ Monika Schmitz-Emans : Encyclopedic Fantasies . Knowledge-conveying forms of representation in literature - case studies and poetics (= Monika Schmitz-Emans [Hrsg.]: Literature - Knowledge - Poetics . Volume 8 ). Georg Olms Verlag, Hildesheim / Zurich / New York 2019, ISBN 978-3-487-15640-8 , pp. 575–576 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  9. ↑ Frank Herbert: Dune the desert planet. ISBN 3-453-18567-6 , page 68.