Name
Title | ||
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Do digital devices enhance teenagers' recreational reading engagement? Issues for library policy from a recent study in two Australian states. |
Abstract | ||
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Digital platforms have become central to twenty-first century education, culture, andgovernment, and libraries devote an increasing proportion of budgets to acquisitions of e-resources. This research reports on a recent project that investigated Australian teenagers' use of traditional print and digital platforms for long-form recreational reading. Specifically, it investigates whether digital devices are a preferred modality for Australian adolescents' recreational reading and if access to digital devices with e-reading capabilities, such as tablets, smartphones, e-readers, and laptop or desktop computers, is associated with more reading engagement by avid and reluctant readers. The research, based on a diverse sample of urban and regional participants from two states, suggests that Australian adolescents' preferences for e-books have been largely overestimated. Issues of relevance to public libraries are discussed. |
Year | DOI | Venue |
|---|---|---|
2018 | 10.1080/01616846.2018.1511214 | PUBLIC LIBRARY QUARTERLY |
Keywords | Field | DocType |
Adolescents,digital inclusion,e-books,e-lending,reading engagement | Public relations,Recreation,Digital inclusion,Engineering,Government | Journal |
Volume | Issue | ISSN |
37 | 3 | 0161-6846 |
Citations | PageRank | References |
0 | 0.34 | 7 |
Authors | ||
4 | ||
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Leonie Rutherford | 1 | 0 | 0.34 |
| Andrew Singleton | 2 | 0 | 0.34 |
| Leonee Ariel Derr | 3 | 0 | 0.34 |
| margaret merga | 4 | 5 | 2.95 |