Digital Media: A Revolution in Reading Practices?

Digital Reading: The transformation of reading practices

The paper aims to present the preliminary results of a two-year project having as scope the future of the book and libraries stemming from the current reading practices in Portugal. In the scope of the project, the presentation of the findings will be focused on the mobile consumption practices in Portugal. This research is based on a mixed methodology: a quantitative survey – Network Society i...

Student Reading Practices in Print and Electronic Media

This paper reports a diary-based qualitative study on college students’ reading habits with regard to print and electronic media. Students used a form to record information about their reading practices for twelve days, including length of reading event, location, format used and the purpose of reading. Students tended to use print for academic and long-form reading and to engage with it more d...

A digital display revolution counter.

The precise reading of revolution frequency is subject to reflective surface and permit an accuracy of up to one human error. The movement of the dial in a Parkinson tenth of a litre. The reflective opto-switch for the Cowan dry spirometer or the fly wheel of a cycle ergorevolution rate of the Muller cycle ergometer was meter are two examples from sports medicine where a mounted on a spindle wh...

passivity in waiting for godot and endgame: a psychoanalytic reading

this study intends to investigate samuel beckett’s waiting for godot and endgame under the lacanian psychoanalysis. it begins by explaining the most important concepts of lacanian psychoanalysis. the beckettian characters are studied regarding their state of unconscious, and not the state of consciousness as is common in most beckett studies. according to lacan, language plays the sole role in ...

Digital distribution in insurance: a quiet revolution