The affordances of reading/writing on paper and digitally in Finland

Innovators and innovated: Newspapers and the postdigital future beyond the “death of print”

“…A recent wave of studies focusing on the modalities of reading of print and online newspapers, provide insights into their varying characteristics, features and affordances (Fortunati & Vincent, 2014;Taipale, 2014Taipale, , 2015Kortelainen, 2015;Farinosi, Lim, Roll, 2016). These studies have shown that reading on paper and digitally are not the same and the readers' appreciations of their features varies with factors such as context, activity, and content type.…”

Bodily dimensions of reading and writing practices on paper and digitally

“…It has been argued previously that with a pen and paper, college students developed more personalised and intimate relationships with their material than they do nowadays with a screen and keyboard (e.g. Fortunati and Vincent, 2014;Taipale, 2014).…”

“…The use of a computer screen for reading in particular, has become a real source of distraction modifying the practice of reading by making it more fragmented (Taipale, 2014). With regard to young Finns, Herkman and Vainikka (2014) have shown that digital reading follows their mundane routines, and hence consists more of quick 'viewing' than engrossed 'reading', the idea commonly associated with the printed book.…”

“…It is only more recently that younger users of electronic texts and writing tools have been included as research subjects (e.g. Fortunati and Vincent, 2014;Mueller and Oppenheimer, 2014;Taipale, 2014). The reading and writing practices of younger generations definitely require more scholarly attention since the practices of young people are most indicative of tomorrow's practices.…”

Towards understanding the differences between reading on paper and screen

“…Another eye movement analysis of reading from computer displays, e-readers and printed books suggested that subjects' reading behavior is similar to reading from a printed book (Zambarbieri and Carniglia 2012). The perceived affordances of reading and writing on paper and digitally were compared by analyzing written essays and the results showed that readers perceive more positive than negative affordances regarding reading on paper, while reading on screen attracts fewer virtues (Taipale 2014). Yet another study compared blink patterns when reading from either a desktop computer monitor or a hard copy printed text under equivalent viewing conditions and found that when compared with an equivalent hard copy control condition, blink rates were not reduced during computer operation (Chu, Rosenfield and Portello 2014).…”