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CONCLUSIONS
The previous articles survey the practices of reading and writing in the digital environment; provide a sketch of multimodal readers, the competencies they require and the skills they develop; identify and list digital reading materials and the quality criteria to be taken into account when analysing them; reflect on the adaptation of the strategies of campaigns, activities and programmes for promoting reading and multiple literacy to the hybrid context of reading on paper and on the screen; and present digital reading experiences in different spaces and environments.
The present survey, which focuses on these five areas and provides an overview of digital reading, leads to a number of conclusions, which can
be summed up by the following seven aspects, taking the cabalistic number as a reference:
1. Reading and writing today encompass myriad situations, intentions, materials, channels and formats. It is therefore neces- sary to revise and establish an agreement
on what we mean by reading in general and by digital reading in particular, seeking to achieve a balance between spontaneous and literate reading and writing, so that sig- nificant current uses of reading and writing in the digital sphere are not left out.
2. Just as reliable data on digital publishing in Spain are needed, so are clear figures on Spanish people’s rates of digital reading. This involves applying the broader concept of reading discussed in the previous point to statistical surveys and studies and adapt- ing the parameters centred on reading in print to the new contexts of reading.
3. Similarly, we need to go further in adopt- ing a qualitative approach to the phenom- enon of digital reading in order to learn more about the processes of reading and understanding the diverse types of digital texts; and in asking ourselves about the mechanisms for encouraging readers of all age groups to adopt digital reading.
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Readers in the digital age