How do students in the digital era choose to read?
Reading is a fundamental part of everyday life for most students in higher education. Yet, we have surprisingly little research-based knowledge on what goes on when students read for academic purposes.
In an everyday life where more and more texts are made available online and digital technologies are continuously developed, how do students choose to read and handle their required reading?
This talk will offer an insight into an ongoing PhD-project that explores students everyday reading activities in depth.
PhD-candidate at the Norwegian Reading Centre Marte Pupe Støyva shares her experiences with conducting a qualitatively oriented research project that resulted in large amounts of video-data. The participants in the project were a small group of master’s students that was followed through one academic term, and their real-life reading sessions were observed in detail.
Pupe Støyva will dive into question such as:
- Does the medium make a difference when students read for academic purposes, and if so, why?
- What do students do to overcome challenges when they read?
- And how can an embodied view contribute to our understanding of reading?
Language: English.
The event is free and breakfast will be served.