{"id":648,"date":"2011-07-20T13:15:19","date_gmt":"2011-07-20T20:15:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/csclab\/?p=648"},"modified":"2011-07-20T13:15:19","modified_gmt":"2011-07-20T20:15:19","slug":"csc-lab-study-of-e-reader-use-among-students-continues-to-receive-notable-press-coverage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/csclab\/2011\/07\/csc-lab-study-of-e-reader-use-among-students-continues-to-receive-notable-press-coverage\/","title":{"rendered":"CSC Lab study of e-reader use among students continues to receive notable press coverage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this week, Amazon announced that they would begin renting out textbooks on Kindle devices. \u00a0What&#8217;s cool is that two of the articles (on <a title=\"CNET article on Kindle textbook rental\" href=\"http:\/\/news.cnet.com\/8301-17938_105-20080498-1\/amazon-lets-students-rent-kindle-textbooks\/\" target=\"_blank\">CNET<\/a> and <a title=\"GeekWire article on Kindle textbook rental\" href=\"http:\/\/www.geekwire.com\/2011\/amazons-kindle-finally-find-home-college\" target=\"_blank\">GeekWire<\/a>) cite our research on e-reader use among university students. The CNET article in particular has some actual commentary on elements of our findings, particularly cognitive mapping; it&#8217;s nice to see at least one comment lauding the CNET article for bringing this up.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s particularly fun to see your academic research get referenced in a somewhat casual-yet-factual way. \u00a0I can only hope The Colbert Report decides to do something similar with our work someday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this week, Amazon announced that they would begin renting out textbooks on Kindle devices. \u00a0What&#8217;s cool is that two of the articles (on CNET and GeekWire) cite our research on e-reader use among university students. The CNET article in particular has some actual commentary on elements of our findings, particularly cognitive mapping; it&#8217;s nice to see at least one comment lauding the CNET article for bringing this up. It&#8217;s particularly fun to see your academic research get referenced in&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-648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/csclab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648","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=648"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/csclab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":649,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/csclab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648\/revisions\/649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/csclab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/csclab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/csclab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}