Reading on Phones: Undergraduate Reading Habits in a Mobile Age
- Chinedu P. Okeke1(corresponding author)
- Amina Yusuf2
- 1Department of Library and Information Science, Sample University (SAMPLE)
- 2Department of English, Sample University (SAMPLE)
- *Corresponding author
- Pages
- pp. 38–57
- DOI
- Assigned once JHTS joins Crossref
- Received
- 29 May 2027
- Accepted
- 17 August 2027
- Published
- 26 September 2027
- Licence
- OA CC BY 4.0
Abstract
Most Nigerian undergraduates now read set texts on their phones. A survey of 410 students and reading diaries kept by 30 of them reveal how mobile reading shapes attention, annotation and recall. Students read more often but in shorter sessions, and rarely annotate. The study proposes reading tasks designed for mobile readers and argues that libraries should license texts for phone use.
Cite this article
Okeke, C. P., & Yusuf, A. (2027). Reading on Phones: Undergraduate Reading Habits in a Mobile Age. Journal of Humanities and Transcultural Studies, 1(3), 38–57. http://localhost:3000/articles/reading-on-phones-among-undergraduates