Scientific Evaluation and estimation of the contribution to the development of the respective research domain or field of practice of the “Stavanger Declaration Concerning the Future of Reading” published in January 2019 (COST E-READ, Stavanger Declaration Concerning the Future of Reading. 2019. One of the main findings is that as screen use continues to grow, it will be one of the urgent challenges to discover ways in which to facilitate deep reading of long-form texts in a screen environment. In the light of the findings and the recommendations for future research on the reading and the readers, formulated in the Declaration, the author propose two directions for future research: Is our susceptibility to disinformation and misinformation digital publications and so-called “deep fakes” amplified by overconfidence in our basic reading skills? Is the communication theory of reading is responsible for the correction of all mistakes during the preparation of the future reader, for removal of the “contaminations”, as well as the maintaining of “cleanliness” in all reading practices? The publication contains a translation of the Stavanger Declaration into Bulgarian.

This publication was made possible by a grant from the Sofia University Science Fund through the Grant Number 80-10-205/17.04.2019.