engleski

Social Space in Silent Reading Practices

Reporting a qualitative study of reading practices across student focus groups from six European countries, this paper identifies an underexplored factor in reading behavior and experience. This factor is the sheer physical presence, as well as concurrent activity, of other people in the environment where one engages in individual, silent reading. The primary goal of the study was to explore the role and possible associations of a number of variables (text type, purpose, device) in selecting generic (e.g., indoors vs. outdoors) as well as specific (e.g., home vs. library) reading environments. Across all six samples included in the study, participants spontaneously testified to varied, and partly surprising, forms of immediate social awareness in their daily efforts to align body with mind for reading. The paper reports these emergent trends and discusses their potential implications for research and practice.

reading, social space

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