Keywords
reading practices
reading Comprehension
digital reading
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Abstract
The article presents a review of research on digital reading, with an emphasis on university populations and settings, published in indexed academic journals between 2014 and 2020. A search of bibliographic databases resulted in 165 articles. Applying selection criteria limited to the years cited, 30 articles were identified, which are discussed by grouping them into the following categories: states of the art (3 articles), theoretical studies (4) and empirical studies (23). The 23 empirical studies show methodological, demographic, disciplinary, and geographic diversity. The results indicate that a majority of participants prefer reading in print for long and complex materials, while the digital format is preferred for less demanding texts and for more fragmented reading. Research studying the relationship between formats and reading comprehension is inconclusive. The social aspect of digital reading is little studied.
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