Teachers often serve as creators of written instructions that students use to complete assignments. This research investigates whether the speed at which the instructions are read is impacted by different visual designs (such as typeface shape, colou...
Teachers’ professional learning on social media has received growing attention recently, but research into teachers’ academic engagement on social media remains limited. This study aimed to examine what factors motivated university Englis...
This study examined the impact of media multitasking on the reading habits and practices of 700 Moroccan English as a foreign language (EFL) teachers, utilizing a time-diary survey methodology. The findings reveal that a significant number of teacher...
Journalism and media studies increasingly describe a communication environment in which news, explanation and public orientation are accessed through search engines, social feeds, notifications, short-form video, platform summaries, podcasts and conv...
This study examines how the Science of Reading is represented in Twitter discourse and compares these representations to contemporary models of reading development. Although the Science of Reading is frequently positioned as an equity-oriented reform...
Cultural practices, including reading, have evolved within digitally mediated environments, reshaping how digitally engaged Romanian book consumers interact with books. Notably, shifts in individual consumption and purchasing behavior now frame readi...
Arousal, the activation dimension of the valence–arousal circumplex, indexes alertness and engagement independently of pleasantness. We evaluated whether MediaPipe FaceLandmarker iris landmark distances from a tablet camera estimate electroence...
The purpose of this work is to undertake an exploratory pilot study on the multiplicity of texts that strive to write or analyse the memories of the displaced individuals from the former Portuguese African colonies during the 1975–1976 forced m...
Educational and technical resources are regarded as central in combating disinformation and safeguarding democracy in an era of ‘fake news’. In this study, we investigated whether a professional fact-checking tool could be utilised in curricular acti...
This essay will focus on the central position that Jane Austen holds in the growing culture of memes in the Social Web and examine how these present-day cameo artefacts are both transforming the way Austen is perceived and appropriated today, and exp...
Understanding the way people watch subtitled films has become a central concern for subtitling researchers in recent years. Both subtitling scholars and professionals generally believe that in order to reduce cognitive load and enhance readability, l...
Purpose: Working on computers for long hours has become a regular task for millions of people around the world. This has led to the increase of eye and vision issues related to prolonged computer use, known as computer vision syndrome (CVS). A main c...
Children who enter the US education system as emerging bilinguals (or English Learners) show significant gaps in test scores and graduation rates compared to their English monolingual peers. Dual-language education programs may provide an instruction...
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Background: Media affects the trajectory of many individuals’ mental health—with media news, individuals experience negative bias more than positive bias. However, there is also evidence of an age-related positivity effect, with negativit...
This study examines reading opportunities and practices in the Võro and Seto languages in the context of ongoing language shift and limited intergenerational transmission. Literacy in local languages is important for language revitalisation. M...
The number of reports of Malassezia furfur bloodstream infections is constantly increasing and there is a need for more simple antifungal susceptibility methods for their management. In this study, a total of 39 M. furfur isolates collected from hosp...
Contemporary media are engineered for speed, and the industries that shape them treat audience attention as a resource to be captured, held, and resold. This article asks what a different tempo communicates. It argues that the rhythm of an audiovisua...
In this essay, I read Kafka’s 1913 story, “Das Urteil”, as positing an anachronistic media history, with Georg the son representing the older medium of writing, while his father stands in for the newer medium of cinema. The father&n...
Professional women football players have increased in Spain, but the little more than 107,000 licences registered in 2023 are still far from the more than one million for men. Androcentrism, gender roles, and the invisibility of female athletes in th...
A recent trend in Disney scholarship attends to postfeminist readings of Disney film and media. This paper contributes to that conversation by focusing on the representations of masculinity that accompany postfeminist sensibilities in and through Dis...
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has caused a global pandemic and exerted a profound physiological and mental impact on the public. Due to anxiety from being bombarded by information from the news and social media, people may constantly read and r...
Wars are mediated in part through the figures of the displaced they produce. This article compares how the opinion pages of The New York Times represented refugees from two wars, the Syrian civil war (2015–2016) and the Russian invasion of Ukra...
Despite the steep increase in Facebook Stories users, there is scant research on this topic. This study compared the associations of frequency of Stories update, frequency of news feed updates, time spent reading Stories, and time spent reading news...
Holographic data storage (HDS) is an emerging technology that promises to revolutionize digital data storage and access. Unlike traditional storage media such as hard drives and flash memory, HDS uses light to write and read page-oriented two-dimensi...
The rapid rise of digital media and the accelerated pace of modern life have triggered a “reading crisis” among college students in China, which is characterized by declining deep reading abilities and increasing reliance on fragmented di...
The choice of what to read is both influenced by and indicative of such factors as a person’s beliefs, culture, gender, and socioeconomic status. However, obtaining data including such personal attributes, as well as detailed reading habits and activ...
The relationship between reading exposure and social attitudes across demographic groups remains a pivotal yet underexplored topic in computational social science. This study adopts a machine learning framework to examine the symmetry of reading&rsqu...
Background: As the dissemination of scientific knowledge pervades social media, appraising impact with traditional bibliometrics led to the creation of alternative metrics, termed altmetrics. Lacking existent foot and ankle surgery literature altmetr...
Parent–child shared reading supports early language and literacy development, but favorable beliefs do not always translate into sustained, high-quality interaction. This cross-sectional study examined how four perceived barriers—time con...
How are transgender athletes understood in popular discourse? This paper adapts and merges Glaser and Strauss’ 1967 Grounded Theory Method with computerized Automated Text Analysis to provide clarity on large-n datasets comprised of social medi...
Isolating single phages using plaque assays is a laborious and time-consuming process. Whether single isolated phages are the most lyse-effective, the most abundant in viromes, or those with the highest ability to make plaques in solid media is not w...
I read with great interest the article entitled “The Long-Term Effects of 12-Week Intranasal Steroid Therapy on Adenoid Size, Its Mucus Coverage and Otitis Media with Effusion: A Cohort Study in Preschool Children” by Zwierz et al. [...]
Security teams decide which vulnerabilities to patch first, which alerts to trust, and whether social media warns of new threats earlier than the official feeds. We answer these questions by directly measuring EdgeGuard, a deployed cyber-threat knowl...
Today, most newspapers utilize social media to disseminate news. On the one hand, this results in an overload of related articles for social media users. On the other hand, since social media tends to form echo chambers around their users, different...
In data visualization, users’ scanning patterns are as crucial as their reading patterns in text-based media. Yet, no systematic attempt exists to characterize this activity with basic features, such as reading speed and scanpaths, nor to relat...
Portable EEG systems may facilitate electrophysiological research in naturalistic settings, but their ability to detect subtle condition-related differences during everyday cognitive tasks remains underexplored. This study is a proof of concept which...
Background/Objectives: Digital-media use is widespread among children, but nationally representative evidence on heavy use across media domains in Türkiye remains limited. We examined use patterns, associated characteristics, and profiles of hea...
When reading a novel or poem, readers sometimes gain comprehension or experiences that cannot be expressed in language yet are felt as holistic. Previous studies focused on the linguistically expressible aspects of text comprehension. In this study,...
The journalism profession has changed dramatically in the digital age as the internet, and new technologies, in general, have created new working conditions in the media environment. Concurrently, journalists and media professionals need to be aware...
The aims of the study are to construct an online instrument to assess different aspects of morphological awareness and to examine its development and its relation to reading comprehension in grades 2–4 in Hungarian children. Altogether, 4134 st...
The capability to present electronic media that can preserve information is highly restricted to few decades (e.g., a lifetime of DVD media does not exceed 100 years), and therefore the question of how to preserve documents for more than thousands or...
Media coverage can affect audiences’ perceptions of immigrants, and can play a role in determining the content of public policy agendas, the formation of prejudices, and the prevalence of negative stereotyping. This study investigated the way in whic...
After describing the origins of media ecology and the role of Marshall McLuhan in that theoretical constitution process, this article addresses McLuhan’s perspective on technology and media. In this context, the article warns that the impossibility o...
This paper investigates a nano-enhanced wireless sensing framework for dissolved oxygen (DO). The system integrates a nanosensor that employs cerium oxide (ceria) nanoparticles to monitor the concentration of DO in aqueous media via optical fluoresce...
The web publishing strategy of media organizations is a very important factor in their success. The aim of the strategy is to cover their audience’s news article consumption needs, but is this valid? In order to address this question, this pape...
Background: The purpose of this study is to elucidate the potentially complex relationship between digital self-efficacy and students’ engagement with reading activities, given that the students are known to enjoy reading. Of particular interes...
This essay addresses the intersection between the Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Tik-Tok and Pinterest social media platforms and a contemporary religious leader/teacher who exploited them to rise from subalternity to the status of a deified celebrity...
We experience narratives in different media, such as text and picture stories. While some research suggests that inference generation operates similarly across media, few studies have directly compared inference generation across media. This study in...
Objective: This study examined reading behavior and screen time in children and adolescents and their associations with sleep behavior and behavioral difficulties. Methods: This study was conducted as part of the LIFE Child study (Germany). Participa...
Elementary school curricular standards in the United States emphasize mathematics and literacy, while social studies and science are often left behind. Integrating science instruction with either mathematics or literacy is a strategy some teachers us...
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