The Impact of Internet and Television Use on the Reading Habits and Practices of College Students

Mokhtari, Kouider; Reichard, Carla A.; Gardner, A.L.

doi:10.1598/jaal.52.7.6

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“…Mokhtari, Reichard, and Gardner found that students reported spending more time on academic reading than on leisure reading or watching television, although they reported enjoying academic reading much less any other activity. 27 In contrast, students rated leisure reading as an enjoyable activity, but they did not devote much time to it. Gilbert and Fister found that most students in their study enjoyed leisure reading but that they were unable to spend time on it because of the amount of time they must spend on their academic reading.…”

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Student Reading Practices in Print and Electronic Media

Foasberg

2014

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This paper reports a diary-based qualitative study on college students' reading habits with regard to print and electronic media. Students used a form to record information about their reading practices for twelve days, including length of reading event, location, format used, and the purpose of reading. Students tended to use print for academic and long-form reading and to engage with it more deeply. Although electronic resources were sometimes used for academic purposes, students often used them for shorter and nonacademic reading. Students found electronic media convenient, but most of them did not wish to switch to electronic media for their academic reading.

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Section: What Students Readmentioning

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Student Reading Practices in Print and Electronic Media

Foasberg

2014

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“…A 1991 survey of over 300 seniors at a small public liberal arts institution found that 88 percent of them engaged in reading for pleasure, favoring literature and current events as subject matter. 20 A more recent study 21 of 539 students who completed time-diary surveys found that "using the Internet" was more popular with students than recreational reading, but that Internet use did not appear to displace reading as an activity. Watching television was less popular than reading for pleasure, but students were more likely to watch some television every day than to read for pleasure.…”

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Reading, Risk, and Reality: College Students and Reading for Pleasure

Gilbert

Fister²

2011

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News reports and well-publicized government studies have led to a popular perception that reading is an endangered activity, particularly among youth. In this study we surveyed college students, librarians, and college writing instructors about students’ attitudes toward reading for pleasure, examine barriers to voluntary reading among college students, and explore academic libraries’ potential role in promoting reading. Our findings suggest that students have a far higher interest in reading than is typically believed and recommend steps academic librarians can take to encourage reading for lifelong learning.

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“…Many studies of reading habits investigated time spent reading (Mokhtari, Reichard and Gardner, 2009), or the preferred medium for reading, such as print or digital (Zhang 2014). Many of those required students to select from a given list of types of materials.…”

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Female Emirati University Students’ Book Reading Choices: An Investigation

Kamhieh

2017

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The inescapable link between college students' reading habits and their academic success suggests the importance to educators of investigating their students' reading interests and preferences. The study reported here was an open investigation into the book reading choices of first-year female Emirati university students to see what genres, authors, main protagonists and book settings they preferred. Book titles were mined from data which was gathered during a larger in-depth research on students' reading habits over a period of two years, through interviews, journal entries, surveys, emails and conversations. Results showed that, while students had a preference for fiction, they also had a comparatively high interest in nonfiction, particularly self-help books. Gender did not appear to be a major factor in their preferences although male authors were popular. Geography, including author and protagonist nationality and book setting, appeared to be more important, with students showing a preference for American and British authors, protagonists and settings. With students' overall choice of Arab authors and titles at little more than one tenth of their total choices, availability of interesting books would appear to be of paramount importance. There are implications for the Arabic book publishing industry, in general, and the Emirati book publishing industry, in particular. Findings will be of interest also to educators, librarians and others who wish to promote leisure reading among college students in the Arab world and augment the limited literature on Arab students' reading choices.

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The Impact of Internet and Television Use on the Reading Habits and Practices of College Students

Abstract: The authors explore whether Internet and television use displaces other activities, including recreational reading.

Cited by 147 publications

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Student Reading Practices in Print and Electronic Media

Student Reading Practices in Print and Electronic Media

Reading, Risk, and Reality: College Students and Reading for Pleasure

Female Emirati University Students’ Book Reading Choices: An Investigation

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