Interdisciplinary Studies in Media and Culture

Architecture of Communicative Spaces in New Reading Realms

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Author

Ahmad Shakeri

عضو هیات علمی

10.30465/ismc.2025.51020.2922
Abstract
The expansion of reading on screens and within digital lifeworlds has transformed patterns of attention, presence, and the depth of processing in reading. To clarify the impact of the architecture of reading spaces on reading quality, with a focus on mechanisms of immersion, it becomes essential to ask how mediating spaces can enhance reading quality or, by adding cognitive load, diminish it. Adopting an interdisciplinary approach within a space based theoretical framework that distinguishes three levels of reading - hegemonic space, resistant space, and mediating space - and using a theoretical–documentary method through a critical review of the interdisciplinary literature on reading and technology, together with a comparison of reading quality across print (paper) and digital (electronic) media, the present study examines how changes in reading spaces and technological developments affect reading quality via the degree of audience immersion in these spaces. The findings show that the architecture of digital reading spaces, by virtue of the design of interactive narratives, exerts a direct influence on the depth of users’ immersion. Such enhancement of interaction can be achieved by purposefully guiding the mediating spaces and mitigating the sources of strain that compromise reading quality.

Keywords

Media
Digital
Reading
Mediated Spaces
Interactive narration
Immersion

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