{"title":"University Students’ Digital Reading and Writing Migration","authors":"Luis Alfonso Argüello Guzmán","doi":"10.7238/rusc.v9i1.1098","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7238/rusc.v9i1.1098","url":null,"abstract":"This paper discusses the impact of new electronic media on young university students’ reading and writing habits. The methodological design is ethnographic and involved an observation register of reading and writing situations. The analysis was based on several categories: written-material culture, text-screen interaction, intertextuality, digital migration and the convergence of literacies. The results show that the digital migration of university readers and writers is evident from the way they structure a document, from Google’s influence on the search for and selection of documentary and bibliographic sources, and from the way they incorporate citations in texts.ResumenEste texto presenta un fenómeno comunicacional de lectura y escritura en el horizonte de los nuevos medios electrónicos. El diseño metodológico es de carácter etnográfico por cuanto se ha realizado un registro de observación de situaciones de escritura y lectura. El análisis se realiza a partir de las categorias de cultura material escrita, interacción texto-pantalla, intertextualidad, migraciones digitales y convergencia de alfabetos. Los resultados se hacen evidentes en las migraciones digitales del lector y escritor universitario al organizar una página, en la influencia de Google en la búsqueda y selección de fuentes documentales y bibliográficas, así como en la forma de incorporar citas en los textos.","PeriodicalId":290834,"journal":{"name":"RUSC, Universities and Knowledge Society Journal","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132752443","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}