Sociabilidad y nuevas tecnologías en las prácticas lectoras. Un estudio en Ciudad de México

Authors

  • Carla Pinochet Cobos Universidad Alberto Hurtado

Abstract

The new information technologies have transformed reading practices in meaningful ways, promoting other skills and competences, and activating new ways of interacting with reading devices. Based on a qualitative study conducted in Mexico City, this article aims to explore how communicational innovations have had an impact on a specific type of reader, whose distinctive feature is to have an intense and/or enjoyable relationship with the act of read: the cultural creators. The analysis of these practices and the reflection as a result of this, allows us to observe that, far from creating isolated readers, the emerging technologies contribute to develop, in other ways,the potential for the sociability of reading, thus stimulating work networks and collaborative projects.

Keywords:

Reading practices, cultural creators, sociability, new technologies, social networks