Paideia vs. Downloading Reading in the digital age

Abstract

The study deals with the current situation and the expected future of the cultural technology of reading. The study approaches the question in the context of the paideia theory, i.e. H. she interprets reading as one of the prerequisites for developing into an integrated, autonomous person. The aim of the analysis is to place empirical research results in a couture-philosophical context and to show connections and consequences of the culture of the digital age that would remain unnoticed in a simple empirical study. It is based on the theses of the Stavanger Declaration, which was created at the conclusion of the international European Reading Conference in Stavanger, Norway, and takes up the findings and suggestions of the Declaration by 130 reading researchers on the future of reading. Cultural-philosophical analysis attempts to explore the anthropological, psychological, sociological and cultural-philosophical aspects of digitalization and reading by examining the heterotopic spaces of reading.