How does our perception change depending on what we’re reading?
Do we treat a novel the same way we treat a newspaper/text/blog/plurk? Are we equally invested, emotionally and mentally, between them? If not, then where is the line drawn? What changes in your mental and physical state while reading these… stories?
With verbal conversations various cues are taken from tone and body language, yet these cues become void during text/plurk/wave forms of communications… but are regained in novels? Why is that?
Both writes are more than capable of pouring emotion into both, so it’s doubtful that it’s a lack of reciprocated “feelings”.
Perhaps there are constant “miscommunications” that occur in both, but the author of a novel forgets to include a “jk” when things veer off course.
Do we hold a familiar audience (friends and family) to a higher standard in text based communications? Or do we enter them with a preconceived nothing (feelings) and carelessly implicate them into the context we are provided?
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I think that the question might be better refoucused if we asked not "what we are reading?" but "how are we reading it?"
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