Reading the social reader evolution of Spanish children's and young adult literature in Goodreads

Abstract

The Social Reading responds to the possibilities of Internet to talk about books and literature through various media and digital applications and create reading communities. The social networks of reading are specific spaces for this Digital Reading since they collect in a single application different ways of interaction with literature. Goodreads, acquired by Amazon in 2013, is the main space by users and number of books reviewed. In this research, we analyze the presence of Spanish children's and young people's literature through a corpus of 19 books in Goodreads, between 2016 y 2019, 353 users and 588 reviews. The analysis process of the network is defined through different sections and results of the presence of the books are collected to demonstrate the interest of this web as a research space on Social Reading.