Generational readings? Literary pedophilia? The top lists of the 2022 reading research in Szeged.

Abstract

The upper class students of the Kapocs Research Group's 2022 reading research in Szeged are all digital natives, born in the last years of Generation Z. Comparing their answers with the data of the Szeged reading research 11 years earlier (Bozsó et al. 2011) and with the data of the national representative reading research of 2017 and 2019 (Tóth 2020) helps to observe generational characteristics and trend-like changes.

What does the list of favorite readings show, how does it relate to the mandatory readings, and to age characteristics? What genres, authors, series, and brands are the seniors receptive to? Are there currently generational readings? And does everything have Szeged, local aspects? The study seeks answers to these questions by comparing the answers of the 421 high school informants of the 2022 research in Szeged with the 343 informants of the 2011 research in Szeged and the data of the 2017 and 2019 nationally representative research.