In this paper, we describe ReadingCircle, a system designed to explore an alternative approach to encouraging reading among students. It is based on recent research on open student modeling, social comparison and social visualization. The idea of this approach is to develop social visualization of students’ reading progress. The visualization will reveal such reading progress through several le...

granted that literacy is a social practice involving different values, attitudes, feelings, and social relationships, this study attempts to examine literacy practices and the potential changes made through a history of forty years. the study was conducted in the village of cheshmeh, near mashhad, iran, where the social definition of literacy emerged. the data have been collected through partic...