«Elige tu propia aventura». Recorrido de lectura en pantallas: representaciones adolescentes sobre la lectura en soportes digitales

Abstract

This article arises from the thesis "Reading on Screens: Adolescent Representations on Reading in Digital Media", for the Master's Degree in Educational Technology from the University of Buenos Aires (Argentina), with the support of the Lúminis Foundation. The main objective was to account for the representations that young people have, from the last two years of high school, on this type of procedure. After the analysis of the existing theoretical framework, it was observed that the reading processes have been analyzed over the years, through the description of operations carried out by the subject, in their interaction with the texts. Most of these studies are based on cognitive psychology and are experimental in nature. Few studies incorporate the concept of "representation", as a nutrient of the field of analysis. Based on a clipping of the existing theoretical framework, he aimed to carry out a qualitative approach, from an inductive logic, which sought the generation of categories of analysis using the design of informed theory through the constant comparative method. An intentional sample of high school students from the province of Buenos Aires was taken as an analysis unit and, through in-depth interviews, he began to understand "what young people say" about how they read on screens. The purpose of this work was to provide teaching tools, incorporating content that points to the development of these new capabilities that, to this day, have been developed intuitively and un guided.