Texts in the street: Urban culture and actions of entrepreneurship for the training of readers

Abstract

The current article tackles the concept of reading on the basis of its role in soci-ety. We highlight the importance of public spaces as dynamizing factors for reading practices and the need of taking books to the streets in order to enable access to them. In this way we analyze different actions of entrepreneurship that have been promoting the shaping of readers in many areas for the past decades: metro libraries, book dispensers, performances, among others. We also review urban culture in the search for what streets tell us through ex-pressions as graffiti and implementations of social action groups. Lastly, we reflect on the way that these contexts should be approached to train readers today, using a social perspective which can break outdated academic schemes.