Smartphones
Reading habits and overuse. A qualitative study in Denmark, Lithuania and Spain
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21661389 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Valeria Levratto (0000-0002-9204-4937, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos), Andrius Šuminas (0000-0003-0384-2011, Vilnius University), Theresa Schilhab (0000-0003-4204-9788, Aarhus University), Gertrud Esbensen, Gertrud Lynge Esbensen (0000-0002-9739-4127, Aarhus University) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 24 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Publication date | 2021-05-13 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Educación XX1 (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1139-613X • E-ISSN: 2174-5374 |
| Publisher | UNED - Universidad Nacional de Educacion a Distancia (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.5944/educxx1.28321 |
| OpenAlex | W3162249934 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 8 |
Recently, the smartphone has become the key device in families andworkplaces, changing people’s habits and ways of interaction in our liquidand hyperconnected societies. Little research has been done on the useof smartphones for reading, since the telephone was not associated withreading until very recently. This paper presents an overview of digital mobilereading in the digital literacy context and tries to answer different researchquestions, such as: how do people read on the smartphone? Do people havean addiction to/misuse of mobiles? Its objective is to offer empirical dataabout people’s experiences of digital mobile reading and to analyse how wedepend on our smartphone through a small-scale qualitative study includingdifferent informants from three European capital cities: Copenhagen(Denmark), Madrid (Spain) and Vilnius (Lithuania).The paper does not aim to generalise its findings, but to advance the field of digital literacy research, a field in which the meaning (the interviews) has been interpreted in relation to a wider socio-cultural context.The results report that the “context”, the “time” and the “situation” wherereading is carried out are decisive for understanding; furthermore, the typeof navigation that readers can perform on the smartphone has importantconsequences in the reading process, hence, the layout must be well designedfor active and attentive users on mobile devices. Our Informants assert thatsituations like boredom, waiting or loneliness can induce the use of thesmartphone. Therefore, more research is needed, in different areas and withnew digital literacy programmes in order to help young people (and adults)use their mobiles as advantageously as possible
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| Unique citing works | 3 |
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| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2023 - 2026 (4) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |