“…Generally, literature is losing ground to other leisure activities among young audiences. According to national surveys as well as local studies, the number of ardent readers decreases signifi cantly in the transition from childhood to adolescence (Danish Ministry of Culture, 2012;Rutherford et al, 2017). However, as implied by Merga, by participating in online literary fora, combining the 'old literacy' of book reading with new digitally and socially oriented literacies (Scharber, 2009), adolescents can obtain a sense of community (McMillan & Chavis, 1986;Choi & Joo, 2016) that may contribute to the maintenance or intensifi cation of their reading habits as well as the development of social capital (Birr Moje, 2008).…”