Abstract
In this article, we present an overview of the results of a survey conducted with Brazilian youngsters aged 15 to 18 years old, belonging to diverse socioeconomic strata. We have identified their means of search and access to the works and the experience of digital literary reading, considering that it includes the reading of works of both digital and digitized literature. We have based our research on studies about the history of books and reading, youth literature, sociology of reading, multimodality and digital literary genres. We applied a questionnaire to 342 youngsters, a semi-open questionnaire to 68 youngsters, and followed the practices of digital literary reading of 6 young readers through semi-structured interviews. Digital search environments are diverse, but not always easily understood by young readers. For each type of digital literary reading there are specific ways of accessing the digital environments that make them available.
Highlights
Research in the field of the history of reading and the book in several areas of knowledge has looked at reading as an object of historical and social investigation
Other approaches are more focused on pedagogical or literary aspects, including textual genres, reading practices, mediators, and reading behaviors Reading practices are the subject of the sociology of reading which investigates, among other aspects, reading habits, the distribution of reading materials according to distinct geographic and socioeconomic perspectives, the dispositions of the readers regarding the act of reading, and the ways in which the reading materials are used (Leveratto and Leontsini, 2008; Diaz-Plaja, 2008; Colomer, 2003, 2007)
We have found that experience with digital literary readings are carried out by young readers for study, for entertainment purposes, and for written production, as the young reader P_M_17_C1 reported in interview sessions when he reported that he had already written fanfics
Summary
Research in the field of the history of reading and the book in several areas of knowledge has looked at reading as an object of historical and social investigation. The sharing of information by members of the community of literary readers who read, comment and review the works, allows the young reader access to websites, blogs, social networks where they can find digital literary works, and digitized literature read by their peers This sharing of information favors the choice of works that are to their liking, more assertively than they would in physical bookstores, many of them highlight the best-recommended books by means of reminders to the reader posted on the shelves. This strategy does not compare with those used by real readers, sharing their impressions of their literary readings in reader communities, site assessments on websites, and other literary sociability environments on the Internet. We will discuss some types of digital literary reading, relating them to the genres or modes of their production and publication
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