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Die mit den sich verändernden Jugendkulturen entstandenen neuen Lesearten
The new reading types associated with changing youth cultures

Author(s): Hikmet Asutay, Meryem Demir, Semra Öğretmen, Harun Gögerler, Oktay Atik
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Studies of Literature, German Literature, Turkish Literature
Published by: Шуменски университет »Епископ Константин Преславски«
Keywords: The Youth’s Literature; Reading Types; New Media; Turkish-German Literature

Summary/Abstract: The youth is the greatest target of changing technological conditions and new Media. So, whilst the youth cultures change in accordance with these developments, the reading cultures of the youth are influenced and reading techniques and cultures change as well. The most wide-spread reading type, which can be exemplified for the recently occurring reading types, may be ‘’the screen age’’. The youth of the screen age acquire screen literacy by means of some technological devices such as cell phones, tablet Pcs and computers; they can also use these devices intensively during the courses and keep the remarkable amount of the course materials in these devices by saving them. In this study, starting from the researches of Turkish-German youth’s literature, recently occurring reading and text types will be identified and the frequence of using theses reading texts will be discussed. The starting point in these arguments is the evaluation of the various research data which has been collected in the context of Turkish-German youth’s literature. Besides, as the research subject is under the coverage of the youth’s literature again, some sample texts of the youth’s literature will be mentioned as well.