Reading culture in "smartphone era"
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- 20:14 05/04/2022
DNHN - Following the flow of human civilization history, reading culture plays an extremely important role in the development of individual cultural personality, thereby profoundly influencing human development strategies, as well as prosperity and development of each nation. Reading culture is considered an important point to preserve and develop the cultural foundation of the nation.

Reading culture is a concept with two meanings, one broad and another one narrow. In a broad sense, it is reading behavior, reading value and reading standards of each individual, the social communi- ty, managers and state management agencies. Thus, read- ing culture in the broad sense is the composition of three elements, or more precisely, three layers such as three non-concentric circles, three intersecting circles. In the narrow sense, it is the behavior, values and reading standards of each individual. This behavior, values and norms also includes three components: reading habits, reading preferences and reading skills. These three compo- nents are also three layers, three non-concentric circles, three intersecting circles..


Reading habits and skills are uniform, while reading pref- erences depend entirely on the specific individual (educa- tion level and personal absorption level). For example, some people like reading poetry, some other people like reading novels or research books, etc. This factor creates diverse and colorful things for reading culture in society. If considering reading culture of each individual, it is nec- essary to ensure that all three factors are present. If a person has the habit of reading, but lacks reading skills, the reading efficiency is not high, even ineffective, just wast- ing time in vain. If they master reading skills, but they do not create a reading habit, they will not gain much knowl- edge and lack the necessary knowledge for their own lives..


Sometimes, some people say that an individual’s reading culture means their reading skills. That reflects the impor- tance of individual reading skills. And this statement is also a developing concept with abundant content..

Reading skill is the expression of a combination of think- ing operations which is established into reading behavior habits. Consciously choosing topics or issues to read for yourself and knowing how to apply different reading meth- ods for each type of reading material (research papers, popular documents or entertainment documents, etc.) We need to know how to navigate the necessary resources for ourselves in the directories, catalogs of the library, all kinds of handbooks or manuals, etc. And we need to know how to navigate the necessary resources for ourselves in the digital environment. In addition, showing the system continuity in the process of selecting reading materials ( reading from low level to high level, from simple problems to complex problems). Additionally, knowing how to re- ceive maximum and profound content of reading, even sit- ting posture, distance between eyes or reading material, etc. Knowing how to apply technical measures to consoli- date and deepen the reading content such as taking notes, making bibliographic ballots, composing summaries, writ- ing annotations or communicating with friends and col- leagues, etc. And it is important to know how to put what you’ve read into practice. The ultimate goal of reading skills is to read with the high- est efficiency, master the core content and know how to apply what you have read to the reader’s own life. Every year, UNESCo awards the literacy award to individuals and groups who can not only read and write, but also know how to apply what they read to their own lives, improve their lives and improve the lives of the poor..


To develop a reading culture, it is necessary to develop good reading behaviors, values and standards of managers, state management agencies, the social community and each individual in society. But the focus and ultimate goal of reading culture development is to develop good reading behavior, values and standards of each member of society. The good reading behavior, values and standards of each individual in society are their good reading habits, reading preferences and reading skills. That is the foundation of a learning society and lifelong learning. A requirement that is also a challenge of modern society..

We cannot deny the miraculous benefits of the Internet and audio-visual media. But we also have to look back at its second dimension when we become too dependent on it and become dependent. In a split second, there is informa- tion to be found, but you can forget it in this split second. Facebook and social networks connect people with people so quickly which takes up a lot of time for young people. This action makes the younger generation forget how to connect with real people. This will bring great consequenc- es in the long run and the values of young people will gradually disappear: values about their families and rela- tives. Books create static and deep thinking, while the images of TV screens and the Internet are a combination of technolo- gy and machines, this helps to train dynamic thinking. Dy- namic thinking is good, but it is like a tree, no root, if without static thinking as a background and root..


Japan, which is a successful country, emerges from the ashes of wars, they read books fiercely and succeed wildly. This means that they built a solid foundation for their people. Bill Gates, who is a world billionaire, still lives the life of a “nerd”. He reads more than 50 books a year and maintains the habit of always reading an hour before going to bed, no matter how busy he is at work. Chairman Facebook - Mark Zuckerberg did the same when he invited the world to take part in his own challenge in 2015: Read a new book every two weeks..


Reading culture must be enforced as a principle, as a law and a compulsion in every country. The library system must be the most modern, civilized and scientific. The li- brary is not a static place to spread books and bring mobile books to everyone. And the most special thing is that: the love of reading must be nurtured from the children them- selves who are the seeds of the future..


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