E-READ COST – Page 2

What is E-READ?

Evolution of reading in the age of digitisation (E-READ) is a COST Action with the goal to improve scientific understanding of the implications of digitization, hence helping individuals, disciplines, societies and sectors across Europe to cope optimally with the effects. E-READ comprises a number of projects and initiatives at different levels and scientific scope. There are several strategic, within-Working Group projects. Read more

Working Groups

Working Group 1

Continuing/skilled (PISA-age) reading International assessments (e.g., PISA 2009, 2012; PIRLS 2011) have underlined that the increasing literacy demands of everyday life demand improvement of the reading skills of all students, not just those in difficulty. Individuals of all ages are increasingly exposed to information in a wide range of digital...

Working Group 2

Developmental aspects of reading Today’s children are steeped in digitally dominated media; this digital exposure is likely to affect deep reading. Deep reading is a complex process that builds on the efficiency of lower level linguistic skills, such as orthographic, phonological, semantic, morphological and syntactic knowledge, to decode and comprehend...

Working Group 3

Experiential and emotional aspects of reading Empirical research shows that literary deep reading, by virtue of its appeal to first-person experience, yields potentially unique cognitive and emotional benefits (enhancing the capacity for empathy, social inference, emotional self-regulation, verbal abilities and intelligence). The increasing use of e-readers and tablets for literary...

Working Group 4

The ergonomics of reading (physiology; haptic & tactile feedback) Reading has usually been considered as a purely cognitive process, only based on visual perception, and not really involving body actions except eye movements and, to a lesser extent, head movements. Yet, reading is a multimodal activity involving other body parts,...

Latest News

E-READ media coverage Interview with Maryanne on the public broadcast in Norway

Below is a link to a radio interview with, first, Hildegunn and then Maryanne. It’s a concise and useful summary of her main points, with clear messages to policy makers: “What processes are we gonna use for which reading? Skim your emails; read your book!”

We present a bibliography that is the result of the work of scientists involved in the project. You can find it on thin link: http://ereadcost.eu/bibliography/

Massimo Salgaro presented E-READ COST action activities to WDR, a German public broadcasting. Listen here

First Monday, one of the oldest peer-reviewed open access Journals has published a thematic issue on print and screen reading edited and written by Eread members. http://firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/issue/view/608 Table of Contents Reading in the era of digitisation: An introduction…

Professors Hildegunn Stole and Adriaan van der Weel presented E-READ COST action activities in Slovakia. See their short statements of digital reading issues in evening TV news, for two TV station: RTVS news TV Markíza news Following two journal articles…

Edited by Mirit Barzillai, Jenny Thomson, Sascha Schroeder and Paul van den Broek University of Haifa / University of Sheffield / Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin / Leiden University With digital screens becoming increasingly ubiquitous in the lives…

Dear all, This letter represents the official launch of the only call in 2018 for Short Term Scientific Mission (STMS) proposals with a deadline of 18th June 2018. Herewith, please find attached three files with the relevant documents for the…

More E-READ coverage in the German newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung Read article

E-READ members Massimo Salgaro and A. van der Weel in THE CONVERSATION Read article

E-READ member Rakefet Ackerman in FRANKFURTER ALLGEMEINE ZEITUNG Read article

E-READ newsletter No. 7

Adriaan van der Weel interviewed about E-READ by the Leiden science programme ‘Science071’ on Radio Sleutelstad

Leiden Book Studies journal Call for papers

Book proposal for Bloomsbury

Adriaan van der Weel interview in Dutch science news channel ‘Nemo Kennislink’ about the pros and cons of using screens in education

What is E-READ?

Working Groups

Latest News

E-READ media coverage Interview with Maryanne on the public broadcast in Norway

E-READ Bibliography available to the scientific and wider community

E-READ media coverage Massimo Salgaro gave to WDR, a German public broadcasting

E-READ special issue of First Monday

E-READ media coverage about appearances of Hildegunn Stole and Adriaan van der Weel in Slovakia

NEW BOOK Learning to Read in a Digital World

STSMs only call 2018

More E-READ coverage in the German newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung

E-READ members Massimo Salgaro and A. van der Weel in THE CONVERSATION

E-READ member Rakefet Ackerman in FRANKFURTER ALLGEMEINE ZEITUNG