Post on 05-Aug-2015
COST IS1404 E-READ Evolution of Reading in the Age of Digitisation
Anne Mangen, Ph.D.
Associate professor, The Reading Centre, University of Stavanger, NO
What is a COST Action?
• Research network funding from EU // COST (European Cooperation in Science and Technology)
• Funding for four years • Meetings; Training Schools; Short Term Scientific Missions (STSMs);
Workshops/seminars etc.
• Bottom-up, research-driven
• Interdisciplinarity and international collaboration
Aim of the E-READ COST Action (11/2014-11/2018) • In view of the tremendous speed of the digitisation of reading it is
necessary to develop • An integrative model of reading
• A way to measure all aspects of reading
• The model and measures will • Improve scientific understanding of the implications of digitisation
• Help individuals, societies and sectors across Europe to optimally cope with and prepare for the effects
Why is networking through E-READ essential?
• There is evidence that linear text reading on screen(s) is different from text reading on paper • Paper/screen affordances might impact cognitive and emotional aspects
• What are the potential negative/positive effects of screen reading?
• We need to identify the best of both worlds (paper and screens)
Main scientific objectives
• Coordination of reading research
• Sustained interdisciplinary collaboration (particularly, between SSH
and natural sciences)
• Integration of multidimensional research through a model of reading
• Develop a knowledge base for effective dissemination to all
stakeholders
• Horizon 2020 applications
Reading is
• Human-technology interaction • Affordances of substrates (paper; screens)
• Multidimensional • Device/substrate (paper vs screen); text; reader; purpose
• Multisensory and embodied • Tactility & haptics; body and brain
An integrative model of reading
• Ergonomic dimension • physical engagement with a device; haptics
• Attentional/perceptual dimension • allocation of attention; audiovisual processing
• Cognitive dimension • Comprehension (at different levels); linguistic processing
• Emotional dimension • Low- and high-level processes and outcomes
• Phenomenological dimension • individually meaningful activity
• Sociocultural dimension • socially meaningful activity
The impact of digitization on
• Cognitive measures (recall; comprehension)
• Emotional measures (engagement; immersion)
• During/after the reading of different kinds of texts, for different purposes • News • Study • Information • Leisure • …
Extensively interdisciplinary network
• Established research network (2009-) • Literary studies • Media studies • Book history • Psychology • Neuroscience • LIS (Library and information science) • Philosophy • Biology • Educational sciences • HCI (Human-Computer Interaction)
• Funded nationally, regionally and internationally
Stakeholders and Stakeholder Liaison Officers (SLOs; two-three per category) • Scientific community
• Publishers & book trade (study/textbooks; literature; children’s books; etc.)
• Reading promotion agencies
• Educational practitioners
• Policy makers
• Hardware and software companies (eye tracking technologies; display technologies; digital reading devices)
• EU citizens
E-READ Deliverables
• Collections of existing empirical data on digital text reading • Scientific publications resulting in visibility in scientific communities in
relevant fields • A comprehensive, interdisciplinary, and testable model of reading • Interdisciplinary paradigms for measuring the impact of digitization on
reading • Recommendations for industry • Recommendations for the pedagogical field • A shared European research/knowledge database • Online publication and networking/collaboration tool (the Action web site)