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MAKE READING GREAT AGAIN YES WE CAN
No full textLesen können ist wichtiger als je zuvor Die letzten Jahre haben gezeigt, dass Informationsvermitt-lung schwierig sein kann und durchaus auch missbraucht wird. Besonders kritisch-ja sogar überlebenswichtig-können klare und verständliche Informationen innerhalb politischer Kommunikation werden, wie man beispielsweise anhand der Corona-Pandemie und bei kriegerischen Konflikten sehen kann. Wie kann man unterscheiden zwischen wissenschaft-lichen Erkenntnissen und Fakten, Meinungen und Meinungs-mache bis hin zu Fake News und Propaganda? Wie lassen sich alle Menschen erreichen, wie lässt sich klar machen, welches Verhalten gerade angebracht ist? Aber: Spielen Texte überhaupt noch eine so große Rol-le? (Wenn man bedenkt, dass etwa jeder siebte Mensch in Deutschland Leseschwierigkeiten hat). Wird nicht mehr und mehr Wissen über (bewegte) Bilder vermittelt? Haben nicht Sprachnachrichten das Tippen und Lesen von Text obsolet gemacht? Ja und nein. Die neuen technischen Möglichkeiten sind fantastisch. Mit Sprachnachrichten können schlechte Leser:innen, An-alphabet:innen und temporär eingeschränkte Nutzer:innen kommunizieren. Instagram-Posts oder gut gemachte Info-grafiken (mit wenig Text) können eine Botschaft schnell auf den Punkt bringen. Videos mit Ton und Musik sind oft attraktiver und sie erscheinen glaubwürdiger und mitreißen-der als lange Lesetexte. Dennoch: Ohne das Durchlesen-und am besten auch das Verstehen-von längeren Texten erhält man keinen Smartphone-Vertrag, kein Bankkonto, keine On-line-Terminvereinbarung, keine differenzierte Betrachtung, keine stille Reflexion, kein komplexes historisches Wissen, kein kulturelles Gedächtnis,-kurz gesagt: nichts verlässlich Zitierbares, Bleibendes
MAKE READING GREAT AGAIN YES WE CAN
No full textLesen können ist wichtiger als je zuvor Die letzten Jahre haben gezeigt, dass Informationsvermitt-lung schwierig sein kann und durchaus auch missbraucht wird. Besonders kritisch-ja sogar überlebenswichtig-können klare und verständliche Informationen innerhalb politischer Kommunikation werden, wie man beispielsweise anhand der Corona-Pandemie und bei kriegerischen Konflikten sehen kann. Wie kann man unterscheiden zwischen wissenschaft-lichen Erkenntnissen und Fakten, Meinungen und Meinungs-mache bis hin zu Fake News und Propaganda? Wie lassen sich alle Menschen erreichen, wie lässt sich klar machen, welches Verhalten gerade angebracht ist? Aber: Spielen Texte überhaupt noch eine so große Rol-le? (Wenn man bedenkt, dass etwa jeder siebte Mensch in Deutschland Leseschwierigkeiten hat). Wird nicht mehr und mehr Wissen über (bewegte) Bilder vermittelt? Haben nicht Sprachnachrichten das Tippen und Lesen von Text obsolet gemacht? Ja und nein. Die neuen technischen Möglichkeiten sind fantastisch. Mit Sprachnachrichten können schlechte Leser:innen, An-alphabet:innen und temporär eingeschränkte Nutzer:innen kommunizieren. Instagram-Posts oder gut gemachte Info-grafiken (mit wenig Text) können eine Botschaft schnell auf den Punkt bringen. Videos mit Ton und Musik sind oft attraktiver und sie erscheinen glaubwürdiger und mitreißen-der als lange Lesetexte. Dennoch: Ohne das Durchlesen-und am besten auch das Verstehen-von längeren Texten erhält man keinen Smartphone-Vertrag, kein Bankkonto, keine On-line-Terminvereinbarung, keine differenzierte Betrachtung, keine stille Reflexion, kein komplexes historisches Wissen, kein kulturelles Gedächtnis,-kurz gesagt: nichts verlässlich Zitierbares, Bleibendes
Typography to bring auditory cues to readers that cannot hear to improve their comprehension.
No full textReading is a complex activity that relies on several cognitive and linguistic processes. The key role that phonology seems to play in the process of reading has been widely investigated and many scholars have raised the question about the impact that the lack of auditory cues creates in readers with hearing issues. A vast amount of literature shows that non-hearing readers usually struggle with developing reading skills, which affect to their linguistic development and verbal learning and subsequently, hampers their integration in social and professional environments.
Previous research on this matter has tended to focus on linguistic solutions, by simplifying lexical content and reducing the amount of text. In the case of reading material to support audio-visual content, such as the case of subtitles, a visual approach has also been adopted on top: establishing a set of guidelines for the number of words per line and second as well as suggesting the use of a specific font style, font size and color of the font. However, these guidelines are usually established by experts with no relation to the field of typography and visual communication, creating typo-graphic solutions of questionable efficiency.
Communication in times of Covid-19 has become more challenging than ever before for people with hearing issues, since the omnipresence of an opaque facemask has forced them to rely on reading material, sometimes exclusively. At READSEARCH, we believe that better solutions for written communications can be found from a typographic perspective.
Specifically, in this case of study we show how a typographic interpretation of speech features may bring auditory cues to non-hearing adult readers when being used in subtitles. This study shows an improvement in the reading performance of non-hearing adult readers in terms of reading comprehension
Exploring the Boundaries Between Visual Anthroplogy and Visual Communication Design Research
No full textResearchers and/or designers in visual anthropology and visual communication share the visual aspect or visual study as a common interest. However, their views are different. Visual anthropologists consider the social impact and/or meaning of the visual communication within a culture. They are also interested in ways to present anthropological data by means of visual techniques. Visual communication design researchers create visual communication, and are interested in how participants respond to visual matter in order to enhance the human experience. In a way, they are (partly) producing the visual culture visual anthropologists are reflecting upon. In order to find out how and whether such disciplinary exploration might be fruitful, we were assigned three articles from Visual Anthropology Review within the category “Deaf Visual Culture.” As typographic legibility researchers within READSEARCH this felt familiar, since we have conducted several design studies (published and in preparation)—more specifically, practical legibility research—for the deaf and hard of hearing community. As design researchers in legibility studies, we do see possibilities to build bridges among the disciplines of visual anthropology and visual communication. A remarkable resemblance between the different fields of study within a deaf culture, in our eyes, is the approach of trying to capture legibility/illegibility within language (spoken, signed, and/or written) by means of visual properties. Therefore, we would like to highlight differences and similarities between anthropology versus visual communication, drawing conclusions about why both disciplines should keep a close eye on each other. Implementing insights into their research practices and/or visual communication design artifacts may open horizons within innovative or even collaborative research projects. Both fields, visual anthropology and visual communication, are trying to contribute to a specific common concern in deaf education—namely, the educational context of language practice
Typography to bring auditory cues to readers that cannot hear to improve their comprehension.
No full textReading is a complex activity that relies on several cognitive and linguistic processes. The key role that phonology seems to play in the process of reading has been widely investigated and many scholars have raised the question about the impact that the lack of auditory cues creates in readers with hearing issues. A vast amount of literature shows that non-hearing readers usually struggle with developing reading skills, which affect to their linguistic development and verbal learning and subsequently, hampers their integration in social and professional environments.
Previous research on this matter has tended to focus on linguistic solutions, by simplifying lexical content and reducing the amount of text. In the case of reading material to support audio-visual content, such as the case of subtitles, a visual approach has also been adopted on top: establishing a set of guidelines for the number of words per line and second as well as suggesting the use of a specific font style, font size and color of the font. However, these guidelines are usually established by experts with no relation to the field of typography and visual communication, creating typo-graphic solutions of questionable efficiency.
Communication in times of Covid-19 has become more challenging than ever before for people with hearing issues, since the omnipresence of an opaque facemask has forced them to rely on reading material, sometimes exclusively. At READSEARCH, we believe that better solutions for written communications can be found from a typographic perspective.
Specifically, in this case of study we show how a typographic interpretation of speech features may bring auditory cues to non-hearing adult readers when being used in subtitles. This study shows an improvement in the reading performance of non-hearing adult readers in terms of reading comprehension
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