Women and digital reading: the gendering of digital reading practices

Resumo

Technofeminism theory proposes a relation in which technology is, at the same time, cause and consequence of gender relations. Technofeminism allows us to take into account women’s agency and offer a more complex account of the gendering process, one that incorporates contradiction. The chapter proposes to use the lenses of Technofeminism to look at digital reading.
Based on the findings of the research project “Digital Reading and the Transformation of Reading Stimulus and of Book Institutions”, we aim at analyzing the role women play in the uptake of digital reading. The chapter provides a quantitative analysis of women’s digital reading practices collected through the online survey of 16 countries in 2013. The chapter wants to offer new insights to answer how women are defining new developments in the transition from print to digital.