"A Third of Teenagers Don't Read Books for Pleasure Anymore"
by Jamie Ducharme (April 2018, www.time.com) https://time.com/5371053/teenagers-books-social-media/ "The research, published in the journal Psychology of Popular Media Culture, points to the continuing dominance of digital media among teenagers. Teen use of traditional media — such as books, magazines and television — has dropped off, while time spent texting, scrolling through social media and using other forms of digital media continues to increase, the survey says." Are we doing more "short form" reading? There is an argument in literacy circles that as we move forward with the times, "21st Century Learning" will continue to include more and more reading from online sources. That could be social media/texts and responses (short form), articles and blogs (mid-form), or even e-books (long form). "Digital media has largely supplanted...more traditional forms of media among teenagers, the data shows. As of the mid-2010s, the average 12th grader reported spending about six hours per day using digital media" (5 hours average in Gr. 10, 4 hours average in Gr. 8). Is it important for young people to continue reading in "traditional" ways, or do we need to recognize the reading and learning that's happening in alternate, digital formats, in the modern world?
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Ever noticed how many absent parents there are, in YA fiction? So many orphans and otherwise-abandoned youth! (Because how are you going to go about saving the world and having amazing experiences with parents in the way?)
https://pupuutc.wordpress.com/2016/11/06/the-roles-of-family-in-young-adult-fiction-a-lot-of-book-recommendations/ The plan is to link to interesting blog posts, mostly about books and reading, and maybe some other stuff, too.
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