Reading Health and the Reading Health Index
This paper introduces Reading Health as a concept to help chart the collective reading habits of the individuals that make up a society—at any aggregate level. Now that the digital medium is transforming reading practices, and particularly the position of paper books and longform reading in society,...
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| description | This paper introduces Reading Health as a concept to help chart the collective reading habits of the individuals that make up a society—at any aggregate level. Now that the digital medium is transforming reading practices, and particularly the position of paper books and longform reading in society, the authors suggest a thorough examination of prevalent assumptions about reading and a fresh formulation of explicit reading aims for the future. The concept of Reading Health (RH) is paired with a corresponding Reading Health Index (RHI), an instrument to benchmark and keep track of changes in a society’s Reading Health over time. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-311a3647654d46ff9028345c313ee8e92023-11-17T21:21:24ZengMDPI AGSocieties2075-46982023-03-011348610.3390/soc13040086Reading Health and the Reading Health IndexJaka Gerčar0Adriaan van der Weel1Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana, 1000 Ljubljana, SloveniaFaculty of Humanities, University of Leiden, P.O. Box 9500, 2300 RA Leiden, The NetherlandsThis paper introduces Reading Health as a concept to help chart the collective reading habits of the individuals that make up a society—at any aggregate level. Now that the digital medium is transforming reading practices, and particularly the position of paper books and longform reading in society, the authors suggest a thorough examination of prevalent assumptions about reading and a fresh formulation of explicit reading aims for the future. The concept of Reading Health (RH) is paired with a corresponding Reading Health Index (RHI), an instrument to benchmark and keep track of changes in a society’s Reading Health over time.https://www.mdpi.com/2075-4698/13/4/86literacyreadingcultural policydigitisationbooks |
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