Nowadays people read more than ever before. But often not books, but short messages and picture messages on Instagram and TikTok. But current studies show that purely digital reading does not promote vocabulary development. On the contrary, reading skills among children and young people are actually declining – at a time when there is an unprecedented range of literature for this target group, both analogue and digital.
The Academy for Politics and Current Affairs of the Hanns Seidel Foundation and the International Youth Library Foundation will examine this development on October 4th in the panel discussion “The influence of digitalization on children’s and youth literature”. What effects does the digitalization of children and young people’s everyday lives have on their reading behavior? How do writing and language skills change? And what does that mean for authors?
Discussing: Daniela Kulot, illustrator and author, the Mixtvision publisher Sebastian Zembol and Sabine Anselm, head of the Research Center for Values Education and Teacher Training and course coordinator for didactics of German language and literature at the LMU Munich. The evening, moderated by Anna Axtner-Borsutzky (LMU), also marks the start of the new event series “Reading in Transition”.
The influence of digitalization on children’s and young people’s literature, Wednesday, October 4th, 6 p.m., Hanns Seidel Foundation, Lazarettstr. 33, registration at www.hss.de