This book presents a comprehensive and multidisciplinary journey through the concept and practice of reading, offering perspectives from various disciplines such as psychology, pedagogy, and technology. It explores what it means to be literate in the contemporary world, where digital technology and screen-based media are reshaping the engagement with texts. The volume examines how literacy has evolved across different historical periods and cultural contexts, highlighting the ways in which reading strategies have adapted to new media environments. Contributors revisit traditional approaches to reading while designing and proposing new digital tools that support a new model of transliteracy, which encompasses multiple platforms, formats, and modes of communication. The book offers both a critical reflection on the implications of digital technologies for reading and learning, and a hopeful outlook on the integration of traditional and emerging literacies in education.
Elena Bárcena Madera is Professor of English Language and Linguistics at UNED (Spain). Her research focuses on language education and digital learning. She leads the ATLAS group which researches on technology-enhanced language learning with a social application.
María Goicoechea de Jorge is a teacher at the English Department of University Complutense of Madrid (UCM) and coordinator of the Master's program in Digital Letters. She has edited, along with Elena Bárcena Madera, the Interactive Calleja Project (2021), a collection of digitally enriched short stories based on Edith Nesbit’s tales.