Effects of Online Reading on Popular Science Comprehension

Macedo-Rouet, Mônica; Rouet, Jean-François; Epstein, Isaac; Fayard, Pierre

doi:10.1177/1075547003259209

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“…En el ámbito académico, los estudios indican que los jóvenes valoran internet como un canal idóneo para plantear preguntas y recibir respuestas sobre sus inquietudes sobre la ciencia y sus avances, tal y como muestran los datos de Fecyt (2017). Estas investigaciones añaden además que el alumnado universitario se informa sobre temas científicos a través de las ediciones digitales de los medios de comunicación desde la irrupción de las redes sociales (Macedo-Rouet et al: 2003). Este aspecto afecta directamente a las revistas especializadas en la divulgación científica ya que sus destinatarios son muy dispares respecto al tipo de intereses y a sus hábitos de acceso a la información on-line.…”

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Web 2.0 y tratamiento informativo en las principales revistas españolas de divulgación científica y de la pseudociencia

Tejedor¹,

Oliva²,

Villa³

2018

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Cómo citar este artículo / Referencia normalizada S Tejedor Calvo, M Portalés-Oliva, S Pueyo Villa (2018): "Web 2.0 y tratamiento informativo en las principales revistas españolas de divulgación científica y de la pseudociencia". Introducción. La investigación analiza el uso de los recursos de la web 2.0 y el tratamiento informativo de 6 revistas sobre divulgación científica y pseudociencia. Metodología. Se estudia y describe el ecosistema digital de las revistas y posteriormente, se elabora un análisis de contenido cuantitativo y cualitativo de 232 unidades de análisis. Se trata de una muestra probabilística seleccionada de forma aleatoria a partir de un universo de 1.434 publicaciones procedentes de la web, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube e Instagram. Resultados y Conclusiones. Los resultados demuestran que el aprovechamiento de los recursos 2.0 es básico y que las particularidades comunicativas de las redes sociales apenas se explotan. Además, aunque se usan numerosas imágenes, las noticias no se acompañan de vídeos, infografías u otro tipo de recursos interactivos. El tratamiento informativo presenta aspectos a mejorar, como la autoría de las noticias o la fuente de procedencia de las imágenes que las acompañan.[EN] Introduction. The research analyzes 6 scientific and pseudoscientific magazines in terms of web 2.0 tool usage and informational treatment. Methodology. The digital ecosystem of the journals is explored and described, and subsequently a quantitative and qualitative content analysis of 232 units is elaborated. This sample is probabilistic and selected randomly from a universe of 1,434 publications of the journal web, other types of interactive resources. The information treatment presents a need of improvement, more news should be accompanied by their authorship and the source of images more often captioned.

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Web 2.0 y tratamiento informativo en las principales revistas españolas de divulgación científica y de la pseudociencia

Tejedor¹,

Oliva²,

Villa³

2018

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“…Studies have also established that online readers survey a narrower range of topics than those who read print newspapers (Schoenbach, Waal & Lauf, 2005). Online readers have displayed poorer comprehension of content (Macedo-Rouet, Jean-Francois, Isaac & Pierre, 2003) and have lower recall of information about public affairs (Althaus & Tewksbury, 2000). Earlier studies have also asserted that non-linearity causes disorientation (Dillon, 1996;McDonald & Stevenson, 1996) and cognitive overload (Macedo-Rouet, Jean-Francois, Isaac & Pierre, 2003), which impair impaired learning from the Web (Eveland & Dunwoody, 2001).…”

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Online News Production, Consumption and Immediacy: The Remediation Perspective

Omar¹

2017

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Evidence suggests that media displacement theory has limitation to explain the current development in news industry. This paper turns to the work of Bolter and Grusin on remediation which promotes the idea that old media are being transformed into new digital forms. Anchoring on this idea, this paper offers ways of understanding the processes in which online news sources repurpose print news for digital spaces via remediation. Three processes were identified; (1) borrowing the content and reusing it in a different format, (2) borrowing the format only and not the content, and (3) absorbing the older medium in its entirety. The paper also explores users' experience with new news media and suggests that greater interactivity and user control in online environment indicate the experience of immediacy. To achieve immediacy is the goal of all media, and its manifestation ranges from an improved experience to a sense of being there (or presence) in media use. Linking remediation and literature in journalism studies, this essay contests the straightforward definition of news immediacy and introduces a theoretically driven concept focusing on a sense of presence in news consumption. The dimension of immediacy adds to our knowledge of the complementary use of online and print news media, and is central to the issue of media survival and competition in today's digital age.

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“…Others would argue that e-book usage is a problem that produces long-term effects, such as reading comprehension, which involves focusing, understanding and memory, especially if the use of e-books is incorporated into the school curriculum (Macedo-Rouet et al 2003;Jeong 2010). However, this is an ongoing debate and more studies need to be done (Maynard & McKnight 2001;Grimshaw et al 2007).…”

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