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7th Kuopio Conference 2022: Review and Renew - Changing Strategies in Collection Management
Präsentation im Rahmen einer Veranstaltung am Freitag, dem 9. September 2022 in der Sky Lounge der Fakultät für Mathematik, Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1, 1090 Wien
Keynote 3. Hajo Boomgaarden: Books on Screen – Reading and Text Comprehension in the Digital Era
Video vom Vortrag: https://phaidra.univie.ac.at/o:1611295
Abstract: Text messages on social media, online news or e-books: Reading on screens nowadays is omnipresent. Also in higher education we see an increasing use of digital media to distribute and read texts. Does the digitalisation of reading lead to changes in reading behaviour and reading experiences? Do readers comprehend texts differently when reading in print or digitally? Some argue that digitalisation would enable a more contemporary ways of distributing information and therefore to better comprehension. Others argue that digital reading leads to less focus and more shallow reading. The keynote discusses some state-of-the-art insights into empirical findings in reading research and discusses important differences between educational and leisure time reading.
Hajo Boomgaarden is professor for Empirical Social Science Methods at the Department of Communication at the University of Vienna and founder of the Computational Communication Science Lab. His research looks at the portrayals of politics in the media and relationships between political communication and public opinion. The substantial focus is on election campaigns, migration, European integration, among others. He furthermore is interested in information distribution and reception through different modalities. He applies and advances innovative computational methods in communication science.