Blog Post #2 on Research Topic and 10 Tentative Sources
I will be researching the difference between electronic and print books on the economy, reader comprehension, and education. The majority of the sources that I was able to find touched on the subject of electronic books being used in education, and how that affected the students' understanding of certain subjects. Each of these sources included either qualitative and quantitative studies, so I plan to expound on the data collected from these studies. One of the other sources that I found, talked about set prices for print books versus electronic books, and how it impacts the economy. Another source that I found defined what an electronic book is and the advantages to using it versus a physical book. A different source also argues specifically against the use of electronic books due to educational and economical reasons, so I believe this will be a good contrast to use.
10 Tentative Sources:
Cavanaugh, T. (2002). Ebooks and accommodations: is this the future of print accommodation? TEACHING Exceptional Children, 35(2), 56–61. https://doi.org/10.1177/004005990203500208
E-books vs. printed books: some new findings. (2012). Publishers Weekly (Online), 1. Retrieved from https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=aph&AN=124690453&site=ehost-live.
Evans, E. (2017). Learning From High School Students’ Lived Experiences of Reading E-Books and Printed Books. Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 61(3), 311–318. http://www.jstor.org/stable/26631128
Gibson, M., & Ruotolo, C. (2003). Beyond the Web: TEI, the Digital Library, and the Ebook Revolution. Computers and the Humanities, 37(1), 57–63. http://www.jstor.org/stable/30204879
Haddock, G., Foad, C., Saul, V., Brown, W., & Thompson, R. (2020). The medium can influence the message: print-based versus digital reading influences how people process different types of written information. British Journal of Psychology, 111(3), 443-459. Retrieved from https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=mzh&AN=202019546010&site=ehost-live
Larson, L. C. (2015). E-books and audiobooks: extending the digital reading experience. The Reading Teacher, 69(2), 169–177. http://www.jstor.org/stable/24575045
Lynch, C. A. (2013). Ebooks in 2013. American Libraries, 12–17. http://www.jstor.org/stable/26197700
Mangen, A., Oliver, G., & Velay, J.L. (2019). Comparing comprehension of a long text read in print book and on Kindle: Where in the text and when in the story? Frontiers in Psychology, 10, 38. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.00038
McNaught, A., Alexander, H., & Atkins, M. (2014). Ebooks and accessibility. In H. Woodward (Ed.), Ebooks in education: realizing the vision (pp. 35–50). Ubiquity Press. http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctv3t5qn1.8
Poort, J., & van Eijk, N. (2017). Digital fixation: the law and economics of a fixed e-book price. International Journal of Cultural Policy, 23(4), 464-481. https://doi.org/10.1080/10286632.2015.1061516
Based on my tentative 10 sources...
ReplyDeleteThe majority of my sources are from journals that focused on the impact that electronic books had on education and I want to find more sources that focus on how both mediums impact the professional and technical world. I also was able to find one source that opposed the use of ebooks, period, and I would like to explore and see if there are any other opposing views that I could include to round out my review. JSTOR and EBSCOhost had a lot of sources that were readily available, but I need to examine the professional and technical writing databases that Dr. B included on Canvas
Hi Sydney,
ReplyDeleteGreat combination of sources, so far. I know you'll be distilling more of your topic interest as you plow through and annotate the sources you've found. At this point, I think it's ok to throw into the mix a couple sources from JSTOR and/or EBSCOhost to complete the picture of your investigation. We can also work on providing a PTW slant in your Lit. Review with the field-specific sources you've found, and most especially, when we start planning/drafting your Research Proposal to make the study more beneficial and applicable to practitioners/scholars within our field.
Keep up the good work!!
Best,
Dr. B