A COMMUNICATION MODEL OF AUTHOR-READER RELATIONSHIP
Keywords:
author, reader, book, communication modelAbstract
Digital technologies have infiltrated all the aspects of our everyday lives, and that we increasingly see the analog technologies taking a step back in retreat, and causing changes within the way we relate to books and reading generally. With personal computers, and e-readers like Kindle, likewise like the ever-larger screens on our digital phones, there's a tangible trend today towards accepting the digital screen because the medium where we do our reading. Digital is thus becoming the medium through which we see, understand, and interact with the globe. it's almost because the Marshal McLuhan‟s prophecy come true, we already communicate, consume culture, and „make‟ friends, etc. through the PC and also the Internet, using these technologies, as they were extensions of ourselves.
The possibility of addressing, and considering, the connection between the author and the reader as a special communication model, and accordingly the attempt to examine that connections between the writer as the author, and the reader as a user, regardless of the medium the text is presented, is the purpose of this paper. It is important to point out here, that in this type of communication model there is a need for consideration of the existence of a field of experience(in the model), which could be seen as based on the symbiotic and experiential harmony between the two communicators, in this case, between the author and the reader (user), in which the meanings of the separate processes are overlapping.
References
Bates, B., & McGrath, J. (2013). The little book of big management theories, Pearson.
Birkerts, S (2006). The Gutenberg elegies: The fate of Reading in an Electronic Age, Paperback, Farrar, Straus and Giroux; First edition (November 14, 2006).
Bennet, A. (2008). Writing home, Faber & Faber.
Coon, D.L (1997). Essential of Psychology: Exploration and Application, 7th ed. Pacific Grove, California: Brooks/Cole Publishing Company.
Eco, U. (2004). Six walks in the fictional woods, 8th ed., Harvard University Press.
Hartley, J. (2004). Communication, Cultural and Media Studies: The Key Concepts, 3rd ed. London and New York: Routledge.
Littlejohn, S. W., & Foss, K. A. (2009). Encyclopedia of communication theory. Thousand Oaks, Calif, Sage.
Lord, A. (1971). A singer of tales, Available online from: https://chs.harvard.edu/CHS/article/display/5595 [accessed 22 Oct. 2019].
Mrbauld.com. (2018). W.H. Auden’s Aphorisms on Reading – MR. Bauld's English Website. [online] Available at: http://www.mrbauld.com/audenrd.html [Accessed 21 Oct. 2019].
Travers, P.L. (July 2, 1978). “I never wrote for children’ in The New York Times July 2, 1978, Section SM, p.5. Available on https://www.nytimes.com/1978/07/02/archives/i-never-wrote-for-children.html [Accessed 21.10.2019].
Waples, D., Berelson, B. & Bradshaw, R.F. (1940). What reading does to people, A Summary of Evidence on the Social Effects of Reading and a Statement of Problems for Research The University of Chicago, Chcago, Illinois.
