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 in Croatian Media

Adriaan van der Weel, Miha Kovač, and Zoran Velagić presented E-READ at the round table Child and the Digital Age held in Zagreb on December 3, 2018. Croatian media intensively covered the event: Slobodna_Dalmacija – Ništa nije štetnije za djecu od toga’_ ugledni njemački neuroznanstvenik pozvao Hrvate na oprez u digitalizaciji obrazovanja, njegovi hrvatski kolege se slažu Školski portal ‐ Školstvo u medijima – Pametne zemlje odustale su od digitalizacije

You can find publish article (in german) here . Theresa Schilhab initial respond to given questions: -In the German discussion of the Stavanger Declaration appreciation was mixed with a few critical comments. Some of them concern the scientific approach or foundation…

On the most important cultural paper in Italy, the Sunday edition of “Il sole 24 ore” an article on the Stavanger Declaration has been published. More read on https://www.ilsole24ore.com/art/cultura/2019-02-25/testo-digitale-tu-ci-inganni-114404.shtml?uuid=ABKBzgUB&refresh_ce=1

Read In Volkskrant online https://www.volkskrant.nl/cultuur-media/week-in-boeken-begrijpend-lezen-gaat-beter-van-papier~bbe6a963/

The interview with prof. dr. sc. Miha Kovač in Croatian portal school news about reform of schooling. https://www.skolskiportal.hr/clanak/11179-u-reformi-skolstva-nemojte-ponavljati-tude-grjeske/?fbclid=IwAR1x42UOp7fT-0kOnLc9k1wBBk29xFqayVELw7GWNtyGpN5xDygMpmaWcS0

With many thanks to all who contributed to the success of the E-READ Action, we are pleased to inform you that the Stavanger Declaration Concerning the Future of Reading is now officially published in today’s Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung in German…

After successful and stimulating conferences at Bangor, Durham, Oxford, Helsinki, Stony Brook and Canterbury, the “Cognitive Futures in the Arts and Humanities” research network will hold its 2019 conference in Mainz, Germany. The conference will focus on questions of methodology:…

Dear all, Please find E-READ newsletter No. 7

The interview with prof. Adriaan van der Weel on Leiden science programme ‘Science071’ on Radio Sleutelstad ( https://soundcloud.com/sleutelstad/2018-12-05-adriaan-van-der-weel-over-de-moderne-geschiedenis-van-boeken .

The editors of the Leiden Book Studies journal TXT kindly invite you to consider contributing to the 2019 issue, about ways of reading in the digital age. The full CfP may be consulted at http://vander9e.home.xs4all.nl/Various/TXT2019CallForPapers.pdf .

Education minister says Bavarian education policy concurs with E-READ findings as laid down in the Stavanger Declaration

Adriaan van der Weel presents the results of the e-read research

Stavanger declaration on German TV

Call for papers of interest to EREAD community

Massimo Salgaro participated in a round table on reading

What is E-READ?

Working Groups

Latest News

E-READ in Croatian Media

Theresa Schilhab respond to FAZ published responses to the Stavanger Declaration

The Stavanger declaration in the Italian news

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

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

Leiden Book Studies journal Call for papers