Abstract: From the perspective of media change, this paper combs the mass reading in the period of oral media, text media,print media,audio-visual media and digital media,and holds that reading,as a kind of social practice,presents the development path of reading voice,reading symbol,reading pictures and reading screens.This paper focuses on the current mirror image of mass reading in the period of digital media from five aspects:reading carrier,reading content,reading process,reading environment and reading subject.

Key words: media;reading characters;listening;reading screen;mass reading;evolution