... and willing to engage with the subject literature in a deeper and richer fashion. © Emerald Publishing Limited 2023 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Information literacy Asia Reading Wikipedia Philippines Misinformation Ferdinand Marcos In recent years, much...

...Ziming Liu; Rui Hu; Xiaojun Bi Purpose The prevalence of digital reading and the widespread use of social media among young people demands systematic exploration of the effects of social media addiction on students' reading practice. This paper aims to explore the effects of social media addiction...

...Ziming Liu Ziming Liu can be contacted at: Ziming.Liu@sjsu.edu 03 07 2021 15 12 2021 16 12 2021 © Emerald Publishing Limited 2021 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Digital distraction is a common phenomenon in e-reading contexts...

...Anna Lundh The article is a theoretical and empirical contribution to the ongoing discussion on the use of audio-based reading technologies. It presents perspectives from the users of these technologies and argues why a specific understanding of this use is important. Critical disability...

...Paulette M. Rothbauer; Lucia Cedeira Serantes Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore various concepts of time and temporal dimensions in the context of everyday reading experiences. Design/methodology/approach The study uses theoretical bricolage that puts existing reading research...

...A.M. Salaz; Diane Mizrachi In examining the effects of reading format on learning and the relationship of learning to overall reader format preferences, this model will help educators, educational administrators, industry practitioners, technologists and interface developers transfer current...

...Jane Garner Purpose The purpose of this article is to explore the influence of books, libraries and reading on the experience of time within the prison environment. Design/methodology/approach Using semi-structured interviews with Australian adult prisoners, and a phenomenological data...

...Reijo Savolainen As a form of language processing, reading is a multi-faceted phenomenon dealing with the decoding of symbols. One of the most influential research approaches to reading is the theoretical branch of reader-response theories that have been developed since the 1930s (Tracey...

...Pertti Vakkari; Anna Mikkonen Pertti Vakkari can be contacted at: pertti.vakkari@tuni.fi Some studies touch upon the readers’ varying reading preferences, i.e. what is expected from reading (Miesen, 2003). These include fulfillment of affective needs like enjoyment and entertainment...

... an interest in what students learn – and sometimes do not learn – when working with school assignments that require the reading of self-chosen materials, often using digital resources. They show how students, when working with so called project-based, problem-centred, or student-centred assignments, encounter...

.... These taxonomies of affect could be used by readers’ advisors to help readers describe their desired reading experiences. As the taxonomies have been constructed from an RA perspective, and can be applied to the RA literature, they could expand the understanding of RA theory, especially that of appeal...

...) as “whether a piece of information is on a subject which has some topical bearing on the information need” functions ill-suited for the selection of recreational reading materials where the interaction with an information system often occurs without a topical search objective and where emotions...

... Library and Information Science (LIS). Design/methodology/approach – An empirical example – a lesson on how to read railway timetables – is presented. The lesson stems from a research project including 223 Swedish lessons recorded in Swedish primary schools 1967-1969. It is argued that this lesson...

...Hans van der Meij; Jan van der Meij; David K. Farkas Purpose QuikScan is an innovative text format that employs three prominent signaling devices – summaries, headings, and access cues – to make the reading of medium‐to‐long texts more productive. The experiments reported in this paper aim...

... in a way that cannot be yet predicted. Following the expressed dilemmas that occur in relation to e‐books and the future of paper volumes, three authors, Bob Glass, Ann Barlow and Andrew Glass, experienced in librarianship, education, bookselling, reading groups and web, offer a number of possible...

...Ziming Liu; Xiaobin Huang Purpose The purpose of this study is to explore gender differences in the online reading environment. Design/methodology/approach Survey and analysis methods are employed. Findings Survey results reveal that female readers have a stronger preference for paper...

...Ziming Liu Purpose This study attempts to investigate reading behavior in the digital environment by analyzing how people's reading behavior has changed over the past ten years. Design/methodology/approach Survey and analysis methods are employed. Findings With an increasing amount of time...

... retrieval Languages Reading © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2005 1. general description: The participants were divided into four groups. Groups A and B were given queries with enhanced contextual and situational information through a workplace scenario descriptions...