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 members interviews in Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.

Read interviews with E-READ members in Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung .

Read article and listen interview on the Stavanger declaration in Italian http://www.univrmagazine.it/2018/10/11/leggere-sul-tablet-o-sullo-smartphone-riduce-la-capacita-di-comprendere-un-testo/

Read Essay The Printed World in Peril in Harper’s Magazine by Will Self, concentrated on a couple of academic papers coauthored by a Norwegian education researcher, Professor Anne Mangen of the Norwegian Reading Centre, based at the University of Stavanger.

Here are some pictures from our final conference!

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…

Week in books: Reading comprehension works better on paper

Interview of school news with prof. dr. sc. Miha Kovač

Stavanger declaration published in Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung

CFP Cognitive Futures in the Arts and the Humanities Paradigms of Understanding – Sharing Cognitive Worlds

E-READ newsletter No. 7

What is E-READ?

Working Groups

Latest News

E-READ members interviews in Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.

E-READ media coverage Leggere sul tablet o sullo smartphone riduce la capacità di comprendere un testo

E-READ media coverage by Harper’s Magazine

E-READ Stavanger final conferences

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