The electronic text and its textual specificities

Abstract

An immense virtual world of information has been created from the advent of the Internet. In this practical universe of information, available at any time, we have added environments designed to interconnect people. Reading, especially literary, as well as writing at an astonishing speed, modified and arranged in the most diverse formats, have changed considerably, and nowadays reading is no longer as it was in the past. From the rolls printed to the digital screens, the reader uses differentiated artifacts for the contact with reading. In a non-linear way, we have, therefore, an infinity of options to complete the process of reading a text, now also available in the electronic medium. Currently turning the purchased page corresponds to a different format when triggered by touching the screen or the mouse. In this article we have chosen to reflect briefly on the reading on the screens, the format of the electronic text and its digital textuality.