“El multiverso de la lectura en pantallas”. Espacios alternativos y nuevas habilidades lectoras en los actuales entornos digitales

Abstract

This article arises from the thesis Reading on screens: reading practices in digital media from the perspective of adolescents, for the Master’s Degree in Educational Technology of the University of Buenos Aires (Argentina). The main objective was to give an account of what happens in terms of reading practices on screens and the representations that people have about this type of procedure. The aim was to carry out a qualitative approach, from an inductive logic, which sought the generation of categories of analysis that would allow knowing the phenomenon in depth. Grounded theory design, constant comparative method, and theoretical sampling were used. An intentional sample of fifth- and sixth- year students from a secondary school in Buenos Aires was taken as a unit of analysis and, through in-depth interviews and observation of reading practices, it was aimed at understanding what the young people relate about their reading mechanisms to characterize particularities about this process and thus build new conceptual frameworks to provide theoretical tools that allow intervention and modify the procedures linked to the subject.