Research on reading in the digital environment

Research on reading has focused on literacy processes, reader training, difficulties in developing reading skills, and on the behavioural patterns of readers from a statistical point of view. The emergence of electronic reading devices and digital content, especially at the end of the 20th century, has generated a stream of research aimed at examining the circumstances in which the migration from an analogue to a digital system is taking place and the incidence of technology in some of the functions associated with reading practice, such as concentration, memorization and interpretation. This article presents an overview of the development of some of these investigations, establishing some of the critical elements for their consolidation.