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

NEW BOOK Learning to Read in a Digital World

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 members debate paper and screen reading at European Literature says in Wachau, November 2017. Photos from debate

Read it on http://www.literaturhauseuropa.eu/en/observatory/blog/european-literature-days-2017-day-3

We are proud to present COST E-READ Networking Conference Stavanger 2018 subpage with all necessary information about this conference. Read more

The interview with prof. Adriaan van der Weel on Lithuanian National Radio made during the conference Books and Screens and the Reading Brain ( http://www.lrt.lt/mediateka/irasas/1013677033 , starting 1:04:16, translated in Lithuanian language of course).

Read it on http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/lit.12131/full

STSM call

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

What is E-READ?

Working Groups

Latest News

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

E-READ at European Literature in Wachau, November 2017

E-READ in European Literature Days 2017

COST E-READ Networking Conference Stavanger 2018

Interview with prof. Adriaan van der Weel on Lithuanian National Radio

E-READ in Literacy journal