{"id":630,"date":"2011-05-03T21:30:52","date_gmt":"2011-05-04T04:30:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/csclab\/?p=630"},"modified":"2011-05-12T17:48:27","modified_gmt":"2011-05-13T00:48:27","slug":"csc-lab-study-of-e-reader-use-among-students-gets-significant-press-coverage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/csclab\/2011\/05\/csc-lab-study-of-e-reader-use-among-students-gets-significant-press-coverage\/","title":{"rendered":"CSC Lab study of e-reader use among students gets worldwide press coverage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As we reported last month, our accepted paper &#8220;The Imposition and Superimposition of Digital Reading Technology: The Academic Potential of E-readers&#8221;\u00a0won an Honorable Mention award at CHI 2011. \u00a0On Monday, <a title=\"UW press release about our study\" href=\"http:\/\/www.washington.edu\/news\/articles\/college-students2019-use-of-kindle-dx-points-to-e-reader2019s-role-in-academia\" target=\"_blank\">we issued a press release through the UW<\/a> that described the highlights of our research.<\/p>\n<p>Happily, that press release was picked up by a number of other folks that very same day:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>PCMag &#8211; <a title=\"PCMag article\" href=\"http:\/\/www.pcmag.com\/article2\/0,2817,2384791,00.asp\" target=\"_blank\">Study: E-Readers Need Work Before Schools Toss Out Textbooks<\/a><\/li>\n<li>GeekWire &#8211; <a title=\"GeekWire article\" href=\"http:\/\/www.geekwire.com\/2011\/uws-kindle-study-shows-students-shelving-real-books\" target=\"_blank\">UW study of Kindle usage shows why students aren&#8217;t shelving real books<\/a><\/li>\n<li>TechFlash &#8211; <a title=\"TechFlash article\" href=\"http:\/\/www.techflash.com\/seattle\/2011\/05\/kindle-dx-long-way-from-being-bmoc.html\" target=\"_blank\">UW study: Kindle DX long way from being BMOC<\/a><\/li>\n<li>CrunchGear &#8211; <a title=\"CrunchGear article\" href=\"http:\/\/www.crunchgear.com\/2011\/05\/02\/study-kindles-arent-quite-all-that-with-the-kids-on-campus\/\" target=\"_blank\">Study: Kindles Aren&#8217;t Quite All That With The Kids On Campus<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Brier Dudley&#8217;s Blog on The Seattle Times&#8217; Web site &#8211; <a title=\"Brier Dudley's blog on The Seattle Times site\" href=\"http:\/\/seattletimes.nwsource.com\/html\/technologybrierdudleysblog\/2014937738_kindle_so-so_for_students_uw_s.html\" target=\"_blank\">Kindle so-so for students, UW study concludes<\/a><\/li>\n<li>ScienceBlog &#8211; <a title=\"ScienceBlog article\" href=\"http:\/\/scienceblog.com\/44936\/college-students-use-of-kindle-dx-points-to-e-readers-role-in-academia\/\" target=\"_blank\">College students&#8217; use of Kindle DX points to e-reader&#8217;s role in academia<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Tuesday saw a few more digested articles and some robot aggregation sites got in on the action too:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Fast Company &#8211; <a title=\"Fast Company article\" href=\"http:\/\/www.fastcompany.com\/1751160\/the-kindle-cant-yet-replace-paper-computers-for-students-study\" target=\"_blank\">E-Readers Fail at Education<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Digital Trends &#8211; <a title=\"Digital Trends\" href=\"http:\/\/www.digitaltrends.com\/mobile\/e-readers-not-yet-ready-to-be-taken-up-by-students\/\" target=\"_blank\">E-readers not yet ready to be taken up by students<\/a><\/li>\n<li>ITProPortal &#8211; <a title=\"ITProPortal\" href=\"http:\/\/www.itproportal.com\/2011\/05\/03\/e-readers-no-replacement-textbooks-students-say\/\" target=\"_blank\">E-Readers No Replacement For Textbooks, Students Say<\/a><\/li>\n<li>fudZilla &#8211; <a title=\"FudZilla\" href=\"http:\/\/www.fudzilla.com\/home\/item\/22606-ebooks-are-not-ready-for-students-yet\" target=\"_blank\">Ebooks are not ready for students yet<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Sify News &#8211; <a title=\"Sify News\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sify.com\/news\/kindle-dx-use-by-college-students-points-to-e-reader-s-role-in-academia-news-international-lfdr4ijggib.html\" target=\"_blank\">&#8216;Kindle DX&#8217; use by college students points to e-reader&#8217;s role in academia<\/a><\/li>\n<li>TopNews New Zealand (my favorite link so far) &#8211; <a title=\"TopNews NZ\" href=\"http:\/\/topnews.net.nz\/content\/214466-e-readers-still-unable-evict-paper-books\" target=\"_blank\">E-readers still unable to evict paper books<\/a><\/li>\n<li>DailyTech &#8211; <a title=\"DailyTech\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dailytech.com\/Article.aspx?newsid=21529&amp;red=y#677307\" target=\"_blank\">First Long-Term E-Reader Study Compares Textbooks with Kindle DX<\/a><\/li>\n<li>ScienceDaily &#8211; <a title=\"ScienceDaily\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2011\/05\/110502141616.htm\" target=\"_blank\">College Students&#8217; Use of Kindle DX Points to E-Reader&#8217;s Role in Academia<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Inside Higher Ed &#8211; <a title=\"Inside Higher Ed\" href=\"http:\/\/www.insidehighered.com\/news\/2011\/05\/03\/qt\/mixed_reviews_in_study_of_kindle_use\" target=\"_blank\">Quick Takes: Mixed Reviews in Study of Kindle Use<\/a><\/li>\n<li>KCPQ-13 FOX News (Seattle TV station) &#8211; <a title=\"Q13 FOX\" href=\"http:\/\/www.q13fox.com\/news\/kcpq-uw-study-snubs-amazons-kindle-dx-20110502,0,6171975.story?track=rss\" target=\"_blank\">UW study snubs\u00a0<span> <\/span>Amazon&#8217;s Kindle DX<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Physorg.com &#8211;\u00a0<a title=\"Physorg.com\" href=\"http:\/\/www.physorg.com\/news\/2011-05-college-students-kindle-dx-e-reader.html\" target=\"_blank\">College Students&#8217; Use of Kindle DX Points to E-Reader&#8217;s Role in Academia<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>EDIT: Wednesday also brought a few more international articles:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Independent (UK newspaper) &#8211; <a title=\"The Independent\" href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/life-style\/gadgets-and-tech\/ereaders-not-suitable-for-us-students-study-finds-2278700.html\" target=\"_blank\">E-readers not suitable for US students, study finds<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Tech Watch &#8211; <a title=\"Tech Watch\" href=\"http:\/\/www.techwatch.co.uk\/2011\/05\/04\/amazon-kindle-not-about-to-muscle-out-college-text-books\/\" target=\"_blank\">Amazon Kindle not about to muscle out college textbooks<\/a><\/li>\n<li>News Tonight &#8211; <a title=\"News Tonight\" href=\"http:\/\/newstonight.net\/content\/e-readers-need-more-work-school-launch-study\" target=\"_blank\">E-readers need more work before school launch, study says<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>EDIT #2: After Brier Dudley&#8217;s <a title=\"Dudley's original article\" href=\"http:\/\/seattletimes.nwsource.com\/html\/technologybrierdudleysblog\/2014937738_kindle_so-so_for_students_uw_s.html\" target=\"_blank\">article <\/a>in The Seattle Times had been published for a day or two, it really went national and international&#8230;which is nice because it actually mentions Charlotte and I (Alex) by name. \u00a0I mean, the Modesto Bee <a title=\"Modesto Bee\" href=\"http:\/\/www.modbee.com\/2011\/05\/04\/1673906\/kindle-so-so-for-students-uw-study.html\">picked it up<\/a>! \u00a0Now that&#8217;s cool.<\/p>\n<p>EDIT #3: A few more sites picked up the story in a more meaningful way:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>O&#8217;Reilly Radar &#8211; <a title=\"O'Reilly article\" href=\"http:\/\/radar.oreilly.com\/2011\/05\/digital-text-learning-ebooks-ereaders.html\" target=\"_blank\">Does digital text create a cognitive gap?<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Tainted Green &#8211; <a title=\"Tainted Green\" href=\"http:\/\/taintedgreen.com\/green-gadgets\/the-kindle-dx-is-not-yet-ready-for-college\/001020\/mm-17\" target=\"_blank\">The Kindle DX is not yet ready for college<\/a><\/li>\n<li>The Huffington Post &#8211; <a title=\"HuffPo\" href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2011\/05\/03\/ereaders-college_n_856836.html\" target=\"_blank\">eReaders Do Not Support College Student Needs, Study Suggests<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>EDIT #4: MSN France <a title=\"MSN France\" href=\"http:\/\/news.fr.msn.com\/hightech\/article.aspx?cp-documentid=157289615\" target=\"_blank\">picked up the press release<\/a> and wrote a story about it! \u00a0Very cool.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ll see what the coming days bring in terms of attention leading up to the big CHI presentation on Thursday, May 12. \u00a0It&#8217;ll be an exciting conference!<\/p>\n<p>FINAL EDIT: Things have tapered off a bit, although <a title=\"Providence Journal\" href=\"http:\/\/www.projo.com\/lifebeat\/content\/CON_Kindle_Textbooks_05-10-11_6LNTN38_v10.1ff4fdc.html\" target=\"_blank\">some outlets are still writing stories on our work<\/a>&#8230;and <a title=\"Nick Carr's Rough Type blog\" href=\"http:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/archives\/2011\/05\/etextbooks_flun_1.php\" target=\"_blank\">Nick Carr had this terrific blog post<\/a> that&#8217;s the best digested read of our study yet (by a huge margin). There should be a major story next Monday (5\/16) if things go well!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As we reported last month, our accepted paper &#8220;The Imposition and Superimposition of Digital Reading Technology: The Academic Potential of E-readers&#8221;\u00a0won an Honorable Mention award at CHI 2011. \u00a0On Monday, we issued a press release through the UW that described the highlights of our research. Happily, that press release was picked up by a number of other folks that very same day: PCMag &#8211; Study: E-Readers Need Work Before Schools Toss Out Textbooks GeekWire &#8211; UW study of Kindle usage&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/csclab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/630","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/csclab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/csclab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/csclab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/csclab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=630"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/csclab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/630\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":641,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/csclab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/630\/revisions\/641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/csclab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/csclab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/csclab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}