The Effect of Digital Age on Youth Reading Habits and Practices

Naseri, Zahra and Noruzi, Alireza The Effect of Digital Age on Youth Reading Habits and Practices. Research on Information Science and Public Libraries, 2016, vol. 22, n. 2, pp. 213-227. [Journal article (Paginated)]

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Purpose: In the digital age, web applications work as machines that swallow time rapidly. A new generation tendency to use these tools for entertaining and information gathering has changed their habits in type of selected materials and reading practices. In other words, although users currently receive information from the Internet, they have increasingly become superficial readers who have a little interest to read deeply in digital format. This unwillingness not only changes reading habits of young adults, but also transforms their web browsing and information processing. The present study aims to investigate the effect of digital environment on users’ reading habits. Methodology: We used a case study approach and survey method was used. In this research, a questionnaire was used as a data collecting method. The research population included all undergraduate students in all disciplines (=1000) who study in “Toos Institute of Higher Education”. 100 students were selected as a sample study based on the accessibility principle. Findings: The results indicated that participants commonly believed that the Internet increases interactive reading (56%), expanded reading (44%), and superficial reading (49%). In contrast, it reduces concentrated reading (34%) and in-depth reading (28%). In addition, the Internet increases reading in the formats such as news (63 %), general knowledge (85%), special literature (63%), and pornography (42%). In contrast, it has no any significant impact on religious literature (35%) and literary literature (40%). Originality/Value: Value of this research lies in its effort to show altered reading habits, methods and formats in the digital environment. It can be a useful source for accommodation with new interests and find new methods for deepen reading in these new behaviors.

Item type:	Journal article (Paginated)
Keywords:	Reading habits, Digital age, Online reading, Reading practices, Reading types
Subjects:	C. Users, literacy and reading. > CC. User categories: children, young people, social groups. C. Users, literacy and reading. > CF. Reading and story telling.
Depositing user:	Dr. Alireza Noruzi
Date deposited:	17 Mar 2019 11:13
Last modified:	17 Mar 2019 11:19
URI:	http://hdl.handle.net/10760/34220

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