Reading Among Young Russians: Some Modern Tendencies |
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| Authors: | Julia Petrovna Melentieva PhD |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Readership Study and Reading Culture Department, Research Center on the History of Book Culture, “Nauka” Publisher , Russian Academy of Sciences , Moscow, Russia melentievau@mail.ru |
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| Abstract: | This article is a preliminary summary of the results of a huge study of reading among urban high school students (ages 14–17) in many regions of Russia. It considers such aspects of the topic as: the place of reading in the structure of high school students' life plans and leisure activities; their motives for reading, their preferences, and the amount they read; the level of their culture of reading and information seeking; and the influence of family, peers, libraries, and the Internet on their reading habits. |
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| Keywords: | Russia Russian reading high school students pupils young adults computers Internet electronic culture print libraries library survey urban |
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