Reading habits during the COVID-19 lockdown

In this study we anaylse how the confinement by COVID-19 is affecting our reading habits. Do we read more or less? How much time do we invest in recreational reading? And in reading news? In what format: paper or digital?

Description

The ERI-Lectura (a research institute composed of researchers from the Universitat de València and the University of Salamanca) has launched an investigation into reading Habits during COVID-19 lockdown, with the collaboration of the Università degli studi di Padova.

Objective. Analyze and understand the changes in the reading habits of the Spanish adult population during the first four weeks of lockdown due to the emergence of COVID-19.

Mothod. Online survey.

Participants. 4013 adult people (over 18 years of age), living in Spain.

Period. Between Saturday, April 11 and Sunday, April 19, 2020.

Analysis. The results were analyzed with Linear Mixed Models. The database was weighted by gender and age to favor the generalization of the results.

We ask about the following reading activities:

Reading news (newspapers, magazines, websites, twitter, etc.)
Leisure reading (novels, comics, magazines, blogs, etc.)
Social reading (Instagram, Facebook, WhatsApp, etc.)
Work or studies (reports, websites, documents, etc.)

Developers of the project

Interdisciplinary Research Management for Reading Research

www.uv.es/lectura

lectura@uv.es

Project category

2015

Keywords

Reading, lockdown, digital, paper, news, leisure, work, study, social media

Principal investigators:

Salmeron Gonzalez, Ladislao
PDI-Catedratic/a d'Universitat
Vicedega/Vicedegana / Vicedirector/a Ets

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Non-UV participating researchers

Barbara Arfe (UniPD),Vicenta Avila (UV), Raquel Cerdán (UV), Raquel de Sixte (USAL), Pablo Delgado (UV), Immaculate Fajardo (UV), Antonio Ferrer (UV), María García (USAL), Laura Gil (UV), Nadina Gómez (UV), Álvaro Jáñez (USAL), Gemma Lluch (UV), Amelia Mañá (UV), Lucia Mason (UniPD), Federica Natalizi (UniPD), Manuel Perea (UV), Marina Pi Ruano (UV), Luis Ramos (UV), Marta Ramos (USAL), Javier Roca (UV), Eva Rosa (UV), Javier Rosales (USAL), Alba Rubio (UV), Ladislao Salmerón (UV), Marian Serrano(UV), Noemi Skrobiszewska (UV), Pilar Tejero (UV), Cristina Vargas (UV), Marta Vergara (UV)

* UniPD (Università degli studi di Padova), UV (University of Valencia), USAL (University of Salamanca)

Contact

To contact us you can use our email: lectura@uv.es

You can follow us on Twitter: @EriLectura

Start date

2020 April

End date

2020 July

Funding agencies:

ERI-Lectura

Partners:

USAL (University of Salamanca)
UniPD (Università degli studi di Padova)

Results

ERI-Lectura (2020): Hábitos lectores durante el confinamiento por la covid-19 [Informe ejecutivo]. RODERIC (Universitat de València). Retrieved from http://roderic.uv.es/handle/10550/74797

Web:

Reading habits during the COVID-19 lockdown

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