Science has made such great strides that today’s market is stuffed with every kind of high tech gadgets. She is now chairing a new European analysis network doing empirical analysis on the consequences of digitisation on text reading. The network says that “analysis reveals that the period of time spent studying lengthy-kind texts is in decline, and attributable to digitisation, studying is changing into extra intermittent and fragmented”, with “empirical evidence indicating that affordances of display devices might negatively influence cognitive and emotional elements of studying”. They hope their work will enhance scientific understanding of the implications of digitisation, thus … Read More