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Embeddedness, Virtuality, and Embodiment : An Exploration of the Situated Cognitive Mechanism and its Practical Construction in Digital Reading

  

  1. School of Media & Communication, Wuhan Textile University

    School of Information Management, Wuhan University

  • Received:2024-12-23 Revised:2025-06-18 Online:2025-10-14 Published:2025-10-14

Abstract:

Guided by situated cognition theory, this paper analyzes the contextualized pathways of digital reading cognition: socio-historical-cultural contexts, digital technological contexts, and bodily experiential contexts. Based on the contextual characteristics of these three pathways embeddedness, virtuality, and embodiment—an evolutionary mechanism for the interaction between digital reading cognition and specific contexts is proposed from the perspectives of social cognition, technological tools, and bodily experience. The embeddedness of socio-historical cultural contexts provides a foundational force that shapes digital reading cognition; the virtuality of digital technological contexts drives the development of digital reading cognition; the embodiment of reading experience contexts illustrates the adaptation of digital reading cognition. Finally, grounded in cognitive agency, a practical pathway for digital reading cognition to construct reading contexts is outlined. Embeddedness highlights the holistic construction of reading cognition toward digital reading infrastructure; virtuality facilitates the creative production and internalization of digital content by reading cognition; embodiment reinforces the preference of reading cognition for irrational factors such as interest, imagination, and insight.

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