Scalar Workbook AIQS 120

Passage 1

1. The content that we encounter online can help facilitate powerful psychological realisations and collective change. Bibliotherapy is a broad umbrella term for any type of directed reading (fiction or nonfiction) to help with psychological issues (Sevinc, 2019). While books can be a powerful therapeutic tool, the number of people who continue to enjoy the traditional print novel is on the decline, especially amongst younger generations (e.g. Clark & Goff, 2020). There are those among us who are still voracious readers but, collectively, more time is spent on newer media forms like film, television, videogames and bite-sized videos and captions in our social media feeds. (Nair, et al)

Nair, et al suggest that as traditional readership declines, digital bibliotherapy - methods of reading for therapeutic purposes - becomes an accessible and powerful tool to facilitate psychological realizations and counter stigma present in newer forms of media.
This is highlighted in the online interactive story "Voices" by Christine Wilks, where the main protagonist Hayley 

 

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