Formação de novos leitores : práticas multimidiais sociais e culturais de leitura

Abstract

The present study combines both bibliographic and field research with the aim of providing subsidies to mediators of reading about the formation of multimedia readers, able to read different types of text, in different languages. The field research consisted on a collection of data from multimedia reading practices developed in the Reference Center for Literature and Multimedia of the University of Passo Fundo/RS Mundo da Leitura , an analysis of records in specific forms, and subsequent interviews with their monitors, as well as visits to a municipal school in the mentioned city for observation on their daily activities and application of questionnaires to teachers and students. In the research here presented, reading is understood as a social and a cultural practice, which, supported by a competent mediation, gives the ones involved with it higher levels of criticity and citizenship