E-READ COST – Page 11

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 forms and sizes (smartphones, computers,…

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 text (Wolf, 2007; Wolf et…

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 reading warrants closer scrutiny of…

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, particularly the hands, and hence…

Interview with Ladislao Salmerón

Mr. Ladislao Salmerón was interviewed about the COST E-read by the Spanish public national radio “Radio Nacional 5”, on 17th June 2015.

Call for applications for Training School in Haifa (February 8-11, 2016) has been issued with a deadline of December 21th 2015. Only 10 trainees will be invited to the Training school and receive a travel grant of 900 Euro.

The third meeting of COST Action E-READ was held in Szeged, Hungary.

The article discusses the changes introduced by electronic reading in terms of reading habits and of psychological-brain issues. The COST action E-Read is introduced in the third paragraph of the article.

This is the official launch of the fourth call for Short Term Scientific Mission (STMS) proposals with a deadline of 21th December 2015.

The second meeting of COST Action E-READ was held in Ljubljana.

The article covers the two-day meeting on the evolution of reading in a digital age started at the Ljubljana Faculty of Arts, featuring 70 experts from more than 20 European countries who are studying the differences in reading from paper books and e-books.

The Bookseller: European study into e-reading launches next week The article covers a story about a new European Commission-funded project aimed at researching whether or not reading digitally changes people’s comprehension of the text they consume. The Evolution of Reading…

The First Management Committee Meeting of COST Action “Evolution of Reading in the Age of Digitalization – E-READ” was held at COST Office in Brussels.

The first meeting of EREAD COST that was held in Brusseles in November 2014 was presented by Serbian National Broadcasting service RTS.

Prof. Dr. Massimo Salgaro interview to swedish paper Liberal Debatt

ELIT network PhD positions

Dr. Ann Marcus Quinn talk about the importance of good design of digital resources

Summer School on the Psychology of Stories

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

What is E-READ?

Working Groups

Working Group 1

Working Group 2

Working Group 3

Working Group 4

Interview with Ladislao Salmerón

Call for applications Training School in Haifa

Meeting in Szeged

Article on newspaper El País

4th call for STSM proposals

Meeting in Ljubljana

Slovenia Times: Digitalisation of Reading

The Bookseller: European study into e-reading

Meeting in Brussels

Article on E-READ COST in Serbia