{"id":2738,"date":"2019-01-21T00:01:59","date_gmt":"2019-01-20T22:01:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.yksityinenkielitoimisto.fi\/?p=2738"},"modified":"2019-01-22T11:38:41","modified_gmt":"2019-01-22T09:38:41","slug":"the-word-of-the-week-is-digital-reading-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.yksityinenkielitoimisto.fi\/en\/the-word-of-the-week-is-digital-reading-challenge\/","title":{"rendered":"The word of the week is <i>digital reading challenge<\/i>."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reading challenges\u00a0are cropping up\u00a0again and again.\u00a0The news is warning that<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>young people are reading fewer physical books and newspapers.\u00a0Common\u00a0opinion\u00a0seems to be\u00a0that the internet is corrupting reading skills.<\/p>\n<p>What if the commentators are the ones misreading? Maybe we don&#8217;t have to worry about young people, but rather about the one-dimensional reading skills of older people. This interpretation is supported by a recent\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/advances.sciencemag.org\/content\/5\/1\/eaau4586\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=http:\/\/advances.sciencemag.org\/content\/5\/1\/eaau4586&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1548004491550000&amp;usg=AFQjCNHX2DQq_v4_C-iidreFPoHpuk2obA\">US study<\/a>\u00a0showing that people over 65 are the group most likely to spread fake news. Age was a bigger factor here than things like political affiliation. People who are used to traditional media tend to\u00a0believe\u00a0false news\u00a0as long as\u00a0the form and appearance look right.<\/p>\n<p>For the time being, we can stop patronizing young people and focus instead on expanding our own information horizon. What about a digital reading challenge that encourages older people to explore Wikipedia and to assess its articles not by the platform but by their content? Participating in Twitter discussions is a healthy alternative for seniors who tend to hang out only on Facebook. Thanks to the magical world of the internet, you can\u00a0also\u00a0read quality newspapers from around the world and find out that truth does not appear in your local, printed newspaper.<\/p>\n<p>Young people, of course, have known\u00a0this\u00a0for some time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reading challenges\u00a0are cropping up\u00a0again and again.\u00a0The news is warning that\u00a0young people are reading fewer physical books and newspapers.\u00a0Common\u00a0opinion\u00a0seems to be\u00a0that the internet is corrupting reading skills. What if the commentators are the ones misreading? Maybe we don&#8217;t have to worry about young people, but rather about the one-dimensional reading skills of older people. This interpretation [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14,15],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2738","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-english-en","7":"category-wordoftheweek-en","8":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yksityinenkielitoimisto.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yksityinenkielitoimisto.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yksityinenkielitoimisto.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yksityinenkielitoimisto.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yksityinenkielitoimisto.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2738"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.yksityinenkielitoimisto.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2738\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2745,"href":"https:\/\/www.yksityinenkielitoimisto.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2738\/revisions\/2745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yksityinenkielitoimisto.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yksityinenkielitoimisto.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yksityinenkielitoimisto.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}