Reading Fiction in the Internet Society. The Function of Literature in the Personal Development and Social Orientation of Young Adults

"Fiction Reading in the Internet Society" is one out of seven projects within the the new programme by The Swedish Research Council: "Man's needs and uses of fiction". The project will go on for three years starting 2011.

Description

Projektet Fiktionsläsningen i internetsamhället fokuserar 16–25-åringar som har vuxit upp i internetsamhället och befinner sig i den känsliga ålder där en vuxenidentitet formeras och en ny plats i den sociala omvärlden etableras.

Link to the research project's website

Project manager

Nilsson, Kersti, Professor Torsten Pettersson, Litteraturvetenskapliga institutionen, Uppsala universitet

Research supervisor

FD Maria Wennerström Wohrne, PU, Uppsala universitet

Subjects

Library and Information Science

Research areas

Library and information science

Researchers

Nilsson, Kersti

Financiers

Swedish Research Council

Start date

2011-05-01

End date

2013-12-31