Mediação de leitura com leitores digitais em hospitais: um estudo na pediatria do Hospital das Clínicas/UFMG

Abstract

This work presents partial results of research that investigates the impact of the use of e-readers on literary reading practices carried out by children and adolescents admitted to the Pediatrics Department of the Hospital de Clínicas of the Federal University of Minas Gerais (HC-UFMG), in Brazil. This is a qualitative research, whose data were generated through semistructured interviews carried out during the first contact of three participants with electronic devices. After a bibliographical review of scientific productions on reading in hospitals, some excerpts from the interviews with the participants are presented, which are analyzed from the perspective of the theoretical review. The results indicate a positive evaluation of the e-readers, due to the features presented that facilitate reading and due to the possibility of providing wellbeing and postural comfort, especially when compared to the requirements of printed texts. The plot, however, continues to be the triggering element of the action of reading and seems to be independent of the choice of the electronic device as an instrument of access to the book.