Reading As a Democratic Value and Resource for the Formation of the Communicative and Cultural Memory of a Nation

Abstract

The article actualizes the humanitarian aspect of the problem of preserving text reading in a new technological environment as a number of specific institutionalized and communicative practices. This phenomenon as one of the fundamental subsystems of culture, based on the results of sociological research, is considered in the context of the implementation of value, training and educational functions. Reading is not merely a process of consumption of a certain kind of information, it is not just a technology of interiorization of texts and an essential resource of communicative and cultural memory, but also a factor that largely determines the general and historical culture of a generation, and as a result, the cost of the products materialized by it, left to descendants. The highlighted intergenerational contradictions/gaps, as proved, show that reading in the era of post-literacy should be the most important resource for the formation and development of the communicative and cultural memory of the Russian nation.

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“…The memory maintaining commonalities through mechanisms of social and national identity, which include many components, first of all, such as mentality and self-knowledge, social comparison, historical memory, national character, customs, traditions, etc. In the general sense, identical resilience is most often defined as something that allows a person to define his place in the socio-cultural space and navigate in the world (Oleshko, Oleshko, 2020).…”