Drawbacks of Audiobooks for Learning and Cognition

What is it about?

This study is about the nature and distinctive features of audiobooks, as well as about the effect of listening as a cognitive practice. The paper investigates and analyzes the different aspects and manifestations of audio media features, of radio as a basis for audiobooks, and of radio in terms of its similarity to ear-reading. Research methods: logical approach to prior research on the evolution of radio and audio media, discursive and desktop analysis of documents, studies and monographs on the psychology of auditory perception; systematic review of research into the characteristics of listening for learning and cognition.

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Why is it important?

Three conclusions have been drawn: first, the growing popularity of audio reading materials is the result of human nostalgia for " hot "media channels and primal "orality"; second, a key catalyst for mediamorphoses to the "post-written era" is Radio, which decades before the computer simply made possible the appearance of the planetary expansion of radio podcasts on the internet; third, auditory reception has a minimal effect on cognition, that is, on the process of acquiring new knowledge and skills.

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