La emergencia de las subjetividades a través de la lectura en las pantallas

Abstract

Subjectivity and reading are two concepts that say a lot in the interpretation of the world, not only through the written word, but also through the interpretation of every sign. There is no doubt that reading (and more the reading that takes place in the educational field) is one of the aspects that most infers in the formation of subjectivity in human beings; conversely, subjectivities, according to their tastes, interests and needs, seek the practice of reading to meet certain ends: entertainment, culture, thirst for knowledge, self-reaffirmation, among others. The present theoretical approach provides some perspectives on how subjectivity is understood from various areas of knowledge, to find an ideal perspective in the educational field, which is the main point of view taken in this work. Understanding some of the aspects by which subjects occur in the world and taking up the modern tradition and contemporaneity (this through the use of new technologies), some reflections of what it is to become a subject in the middle of the digital age are addressed, dominated by the excessive use of mobile devices and, through them, social networks and the tools that condition the life of the subject. In this section, the importance of the school as a regulating and controlling entity of child and adolescent subjectivities will be addressed, and how it has mediated and should mediate in the relationship of subjectivity with the irruption of new technologies. In a second section, the importance of reading is taken up, both at school and in everyday life. From there, different perspectives are provided on what is meant by reading and why it is necessary to read all kinds of texts, situations, signs, images and all cultural products (which is called multimodal reading), carrying out a brief analysis about how reading is seen in school and how it has changed with that same appearance, almost obligatory, that new technologies have made in all educational spaces. Here some final reflections will be made about the reading subject in the digital age.