Reading Health and the Reading Health Index

Jaka Gerčar () and Adriaan van der Weel
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Jaka Gerčar: Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia
Adriaan van der Weel: Faculty of Humanities, University of Leiden, P.O. Box 9500, 2300 RA Leiden, The Netherlands

Societies, 2023, vol. 13, issue 4, 1-8

Abstract: 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.

Keywords: literacy; reading; cultural policy; digitisation; books (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: A13 A14 P P0 P1 P2 P3 P4 P5 Z1 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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