On today's episode we analyse all things reading. What does this once prestigious past-time say about you? Has the perception of reading and the 'bookworm' image changed over the years? We explore how people's attitude towards reading books has changed and delve into why reading may have fallen out of popularity or perhaps just shifted in today's society.
This episode is presented by Megan and discussed with Claire.
Sources referenced in episode:
§ https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2022/01/06/three-in-ten-americans-now-read-e-books/
§ http://marketresearchworld.net/index2.php?option=com_content&do_pdf=1&id=102
§ https://www.indy100.com/news/the-countries-that-read-the-most-books-7348401
§ https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/284286/reading_for_pleasure.pdf
§ https://yougov.co.uk/topics/entertainment/articles-reports/2020/03/05/world-book-day-britons-reading-habits
§ https://www.healthline.com/health/benefits-of-reading-books
§ https://www.vox.com/culture/2020/5/11/21250518/oliver-j-robinson-interview-pandemic-anxiety-reading
§ https://mancunion.com/2020/02/03/how-instagram-made-books-cool-again/
§ Furedi, F (2016). Moral Panic and Reading: Early Elite Anxieties About the Media Effect. Cultural Sociology. Available with access at: https://doi.org/10.1177%2F1749975515626953
§ Williams, R (1971) The Long Revolution. Harmondsworth: Penguin.
§ Furedi, F (2015). Power of Reading: From Socrates to Twitter, Bloomsbury.
§ Althusser, Louis; Balibar, Étienne (1977). Reading Capital. London: New Left Books. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reading_Capital
§ Olave, M.A.T (2017). Reading matters: Towards a cultural sociology of reading. American Journal of Cultural Sociology 6(3), 417-454. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41290-017-0034-x
§ https://yougov.co.uk/topics/arts/survey-results/daily/2021/09/06/c4828/3
§ https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED496343
§ Brantlinger, P (1998) The Reading Lesson: The Threat of Mass Literacy in Nineteenth-Century Fiction. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
§ Kraaykamp, G., and Dijkstra, K. (1999) Preferences in leisure time book reading: a study on the social differentiation in book reading for the Netherlands. Poetics 26(4): 203–234 (as cited by Olave, 2017).
Written and recorded by: Megan and Claire
Recored and mixed on: Audacity
Music by: Anton Vlasov on Pixaby
