Systematic analysis of digital reading studies in the digital age

The growth of online content has raised questions about how digital reading affects the brain and what kinds of reading instruction students need to be prepared for the future. Some researchers have noted that the need to process large amounts of information may be causing readers’ brains to become more suited to skimming than to deep reading. Maria Ferguson observes that this raises a dilemma for educators who prize the critical thinking and analytical skills that come from deep reading while recognizing that the ability to sift large amounts of material is a valued skill in today’s workplaces.

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Marginalia in the digital age: Are digital reading devices meeting the needs of today's readers?

Library & Information Science Research ◽

10.1016/j.lisr.2017.01.004 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 39 (1) ◽

pp. 16-22 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Melanie Ramdarshan Bold ◽

Kiri L. Wagstaff

Keyword(s):

Digital Age ◽

Digital Reading

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To Move, to Touch, to Listen: Multisensory Aspects of the Digital Reading Condition

Poetics Today ◽

10.1215/03335372-8883262 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 42 (2) ◽

pp. 281-300

Author(s):

Birgitte Stougaard Pedersen ◽

Maria Engberg ◽

Iben Have ◽

Ayoe Quist Henkel ◽

Sarah Mygind ◽

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Keyword(s):

Digital Age ◽

Digital Reading ◽

Reading Habits ◽

Reading Condition

Abstract The article discusses modes of reading that emerge from reading situations that involve literary digital interfaces and digital audiobooks. Building on analyses of sensorial characteristics of the act of reading a digital audiobook and a literary digital app, respectively, the article presents and defines the concept of multisensory reading. This concept emphasizes the literary work's material and performative features, as well as the experienced reading situation. The authors explore how the digital literary interface changes reading situations and argue that new reading habits create a need to renegotiate what it means to read in a digital age. In particular, sensory aspects can be understood as integrally involved in what they term the digital reading condition.

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Hyperparatextuality: Meaning-making in the digital reading frame

Book 2 0 ◽

10.1386/btwo_00019_1 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 10 (1) ◽

pp. 43-58 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Tully Barnett

Keyword(s):

Meaning Making ◽

Digital Age ◽

Literary Production ◽

Digital Reading ◽

Reading Frame ◽

Reading Experience ◽

Fan Communities ◽

History Of ◽

Ways Of Thinking ◽

The Relationship

In this article, I propose the concept of hyperparatextuality as a way of looking beyond the digital paratext to consider the distributed state of immersive reading in digitized and read-in-browser environments. Beginning with a look at the history of the paratext and its relevance in the digital age, this article considers the hyperparatexts of the HathiTrust reading panes in particular to explore the relationship between digitized texts and the platforms that house them. The concept of paratext and its evolving meaning in the digital age has intrigued researchers for decades as literary production, circulation and consumption responds to digitization and digitalization. Digital paratexts might include fan communities, digital editions to material books in the form of official and unofficial content, Goodreads and other reading-related and review websites, and Kindle highlighting tools. However, digitization introduces new reading materialities, interfaces and frames with buttons, links and hypertextual content. These 'read-in-browser' environments, websites through which we access digitized literary works, introduce new paratexts into the reading experience and require different concepts to understand them. When digital paratexts are also hypertextual, they operate differently. This article proposes some ways of thinking about this.

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The Consumer Influence of Marketing in the Digital Age: A Meta-Analysis

10.31219/osf.io/8m396 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

Miriam Young

Keyword(s):

New Media ◽

Information Transfer ◽

Meta Analysis ◽

Digital Age ◽

Purchasing Decisions ◽

Current Field ◽

Systematic Analysis ◽

Dynamic Representation ◽

The Past ◽

The Relationship

This study addresses the issue of the shift from traditional to new media marketing and its effects on the relationship between brands and consumers. Through a systematic analysis of 53 articles and research studies on an array of topics within digital marketing, this paper summarizes the main findings and compiles the major research trends. Through an aggregation of the surveys and studies existing in the current field, the following analysis was constructed, in order to form a dynamic representation of the developments within the process of consumption. The examination of consumer behavior refers to different areas, which were deeply investigated here, including: consumer levels of involvement, the various methods of information transfer, the multiple social networking platforms, and the ways these are utilized towards purchasing decisions. As this topic has become so intertwined in the marketing world today, this meta-analysis serves as a compilation of the major works of the past twenty years, leading up to this shift in ever-changing levels interactivity. With the introduction of the digital age, the Internet, which didn’t initially possess such transparent ties to the field of consumerism, has managed to reinvent and redefine the entirety of its inner workings.

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Preparatory Procedures for Electron Microscopic Analysis at the Molecular Level of Resolution

Proceedings, annual meeting, Electron Microscopy Society of America ◽

10.1017/s0424820100070230 ◽

1978 ◽

Vol 36 (3) ◽

pp. 516-520

Author(s):

F.J. Sjostrand

Keyword(s):

Electron Microscope ◽

Molecular Level ◽

Microscopic Analysis ◽

Resolving Power ◽

Cellular Structures ◽

Electron Microscopic ◽

Systematic Analysis ◽

Technical Developments ◽

Thin Sectioning ◽

Obvious Reason

In the 1940's and 1950's electron microscopy conferences were attended with everybody interested in learning about the latest technical developments for one very obvious reason. There was the electron microscope with its outstanding performance but nobody could make very much use of it because we were lacking proper techniques to prepare biological specimens. The development of the thin sectioning technique with its perfectioning in 1952 changed the situation and systematic analysis of the structure of cells could now be pursued. Since then electron microscopists have in general become satisfied with the level of resolution at which cellular structures can be analyzed when applying this technique. There has been little interest in trying to push the limit of resolution closer to that determined by the resolving power of the electron microscope.

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