2. Hyperlectures

2.1 New media, new readings

In the long history of the written word, the appearance of each new medium for inscribing text has generally led to a change in usage and reading habits. With digital media, the change is far more radical. Not only are our reading habits modified, but the very notion of reading is enriched by a plurality of new and previously unimaginable meanings. To qualify this epistemological mutation, some have proposed the neologism of "hyperreading", suggesting that the concept of reading is now insufficient to encompass practices that are sometimes far removed from what we were used to until now.