Speakers

Dr Anne Mangen
Associate Professor, The National Centre for Reading Education and Research, University of Stavanger, Norway

Biography

 Mangen is associate professor at the Reading Centre, University of Stavanger, Norway. Research interests include empirical, cross-disciplinary investigations of reading on different platforms (surf tablets; computers; print) and how affordances of digital technologies may impact cognitive and emotional aspects of  the reading of different kinds of texts (novels; short stories; informational texts; news), for different purposes (leisure reading; study reading). She is currently involved in empirical research projects comparing literary reading on paper and different kinds of screens, measuring in particular how material features of the technologies may affect the reading experience. Mangen is Chair of COST Action IS1404 E-READ: Evolution of Reading in the Age of Digitisation, an EU-funded European research network (2014–2018; http://www.cost.eu/COST_Actions/isch/Actions/IS1404) with the objective of empirically assessing the effect of digitization on textual reading.

Presentation Abstract

 

Changing Interfaces of Reading

More and more of our reading is screen, rather than print-based. As technologies and interfaces of reading become digital, how may this affect cognitive and emotional aspects of reading? This talk will give a brief presentation of some empirical research on this topic, and introduce a mode of thinking about reading intending to empirically map the implications of digitization.