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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"digital reading"”.
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Embodiment and agency in digital reading: Preschoolers making meaning with literary apps
… investigates meaning-making in children’s joint-reading transactions with literary apps. The analysis of meaning-making focuses on embodiment as a central aspect of literary app’s texts and their reading and on children’s negotiation of agency in the act of joint-reading. Meaning-making is …
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Learning from hypertext: navigation, comprehension, and working memory in university students
Reading text from an electronic screen has become prevalent for both recreation and education, with hypertext establishing itself as a large part of the digital reading corpus. Despite hypertext research taking place for around three decades, questions remain about the reading processes involved in …
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Beyond eye charts, the daily challenges for people with impaired vision
… 3 describes an online survey focusing on the reading behavior of individuals with low vision in the digital era. The results show that reading with vision was still the primary way to read, although audio or tactile methods can be used to access digital materials. Digital reading was also …
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Children's meaning-making with narrative apps in early years: investigating the interplay between young readers, teachers, and app design
… their teachers, and narrative apps during shared reading events. Beyond children’s interactions, the research investigates how both teachers and app designers participate in and shape these reading practices. Grounded in multimodal social semiotics, particularly Gunther Kress' (2003) concept of …
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Three Essays on the Role of Individualized Data in Marketing
… The third chapter studies how access to digital educational content affects inequality in education. In particular, our analysis uses individualized data on children’s reading behavior from an eBook app to trace out both the short-run and long-run treatment effects of providing free …
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The modern coterie: Fan fiction writers as a community of practice
Female coterie writing groups have had certain characteristics in common across centuries that can be seen today in fan fiction writing groups online. This dissertation focuses on one group of such writers who are active at the LiveJournal blog site. Through the use of virtual ethnography, data has …
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Potencialidades da gamificação na descoberta do prazer de ler : estudo de caso: aplicação das técnicas de gamificação na leitura e análise da peça Auto da Barca do Inferno, de Gil Vicente
Ser professor numa época de constante mudança tem-se revelado um verdadeiro repto. Os estudantes que hoje se encontram dentro da sala de aula são muito diferentes dos de há 5, 10 ou 20 anos atrás. O fácil acesso à internet coloca a informação disponível para todos, a qualquer momento, estes jovens …