As Tecnologias Digitais de Informação e Comunicação – TDICs - como ferramenta de apoio à leitura

Abstract

This paper is about motivating people to read through digital information and communication technologies - hereafter ICTs. This research shows the importance of technologies for today's readers and how to take advantage of everything that the internet offers us. The focus of this work is centered on the use of technologies as a tool for the development of the reading habit in today's digital age. We verified, through data collection via Google Forms how much the DTICs are used, and by which means, if most readers prefer the traditional method or if they are using the internet and digital devices to read. ICTs, therefore, allow us to read everywhere we go, and this is fundamental to improve the reading performance in our country through the digitally competent reader. In methodological terms, this is quantitative research developed from the application of questionnaires answered by 100 research subjects. As a general result, the research contemplated the participation of people of various ages, 51% between 41 and 50 years old, and 95% of the interviewees have already read something on the internet, 39% of them on websites and 64% on their own cell phones.