Everything about Scrolling
Sliding motion vertically or horizontally over display devices
In computer displays, filmmaking, television production, video games and other kinetic displays, scrolling is sliding text, images or video across a monitor or display, vertically or horizontally. "Scrolling," as such, does not change the layout of the text or pictures but moves the user's view across what is apparently a larger image that is not wholly seen. A common television and movie special effect is to scroll credits, while leaving the background stationary. Scrolling may take place completely without user intervention or, on an interactive device, be triggered by touchscreen or a keypress and continue without further intervention until a further user action, or be entirely controlled by input devices. Wikipedia →
🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path
- Read the overview: ScrollingA 5-minute orientation
- Skim a recent paper: Scrolling through adolescence: a systematic review of the impact of TikTok on adolescent mental healthInfluential work since 2022
- Pick up a classic book: The Dead Sea Scrolls, 1947-1969The most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: A critical assessment of unbalanced surface stresses as the mechanical origin of twisting and scrolling of polymer crystalsCited 417 times
- Go sideways: Page zoomingA closely related topic
- Go sideways: Text entry interfaceA closely related topic
📖 Definitions
Verb present participle and gerund of scroll
Noun The continuous movement of text or images on a display screen in either a horizontal or vertical direction.
Noun Ornamental scrollwork.
Noun Continuous and aimless consumption of content on social media, especially on websites or apps with a scrolling feed, such as Instagram, TikTok, or X.
🗂️ The subject at a glance
🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
A critical assessment of unbalanced surface stresses as the mechanical origin of twisting and scrolling of polymer crystals
Super-stretchable Graphene Oxide Macroscopic Fibers with Outstanding Knotability Fabricated by Dry Film Scrolling
Toddlers’ Fine Motor Milestone Achievement Is Associated with Early Touchscreen Scrolling
Reversible Scrolling of Two‐Dimensional Sheets from the Self‐Assembly of Laterally Grafted Amphiphilic Rods
Uncovering longitudinal life narratives: scrolling back on Facebook
‘Absentmindedly scrolling through nothing’: liveness and compulsory continuous connectedness in social media
Mimicking a Dog’s Nose: Scrolling Graphene Nanosheets
Web Survey Design: Paging versus Scrolling
🆕 Influential since 2022
Scrolling through adolescence: a systematic review of the impact of TikTok on adolescent mental health
From Doom-Scrolling to News Avoidance: Limiting News as a Wellbeing Strategy During COVID Lockdown
Can’t stop scrolling! Adolescents’ patterns of TikTok use and digital well-being self-perception
The Loop and Reasons to Break It: Investigating Infinite Scrolling Behaviour in Social Media Applications and Reasons to Stop
Keep scrolling: An investigation of short video users’ continuous watching behavior
📚 Books worth reading
The Dead Sea Scrolls, 1947-1969Edmund Wilson, Wilson E · 1955
A long way to ShilohLionel Davidson · 1966
The Meaning of the Dead Sea ScrollsA. Powell Davies · 1956
The Dead Sea scrollsMillar Burrows · 1955
The Absolute BookElizabeth Knox · 1900
Yokoyama TaikanTaikan Yokoyama · 1955
The scrolls from the Dead SeaEdmund Wilson · 1955
The Dead Sea Scrolls in EnglishGéza Vermès · 1987
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