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76677-01 - Seminar: Attention During Reading in the Post-digital Age (3 CP)
| Semester | fall semester 2025 |
| Course frequency | Irregular |
| Lecturers | Moniek Kuijpers (moniek.kuijpers@unibas.ch, Assessor) |
| Content | In the post-digital age, we live in, seamlessly interwoven print and digital technologies inform what we read for leisure, how we read it and how we communicate about our reading. Reading has never been more dynamic and social as a consequence of this. Even though there are researchers who worry about the effects of digitalization on people’s attention spans, there is not enough empirical research to make an effective argument that these developments have only harmed readers and reading. In this course, we will examine different types of attention during reading, different ways in which texts can grab our attention, and different ways in which we choose to allocate our attention to certain books, authors or reading activities. |
| Learning objectives | • Understanding how digitalization has influenced reading, particularly our attention during reading • Learning to observe your own reading behavior and critically reflect on it • Being able to critically reflect on the attention economy and how it influences us and our reading behavior • Learning several methods with which the activity of reading is scientifically studied • Learning open coding to analyze and interpret qualitative data on attention during reading collected over the span of the course |
| Bibliography | The reading list for this course will be made available 2 to 3 weeks before class. |
| Comments | The language of the course is English. Please be aware that you will have to present and write in English. |
| Admission requirements | Participation is limited. Priority will be given to students of Digital Humanities if the course is oversubscribed. |
| Language of instruction | English |
| Use of digital media | No specific media used |
| Interval | Weekday | Time | Room |
|---|---|---|---|
| wöchentlich | Wednesday | 14.15-16.00 | Rosshofgasse (Schnitz), Sitzungsraum S 181 |
Dates
| Modules |
Modul: Digital Humanities, Culture and Society (Master's degree subject: Digital Humanities) |
| Assessment format | continuous assessment |
| Assessment registration/deregistration | Reg.: course registration; dereg.: not required |
| Repeat examination | no repeat examination |
| Scale | Pass / Fail |
| Repeated registration | as often as necessary |
| Responsible faculty | Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, studadmin-philhist@unibas.ch |
| Offered by | Digital Humanities Lab |