Papers - Miyata, Yosuke

Dimensions of Reading : Findings from a Focus Group Interview to Adults

KUNIMOTO Chihiro, MIYATA Yosuke, KOIZUMI Masanori, KINJO Yuna, UEDA Shuichi

Journal of Japan Society of Library and Information Science (日本図書館情報学会)  55 ( 4 ) 199 - 212 2009

Accepted,  ISSN  1344-8668

　View Summary

This article attempts to characterize "reading (dokusho)" as an action. A large number of studies have focused on one aspect of "reading", such as the reading guidance for students or the reading materials. This research works from a slightly different approach. The focus of this research is what the adult considers "reading" to be. This article regards "reading" as more complex action for the adult. Twenty-nine people were recruited to conduct 5 focus group interviews. The participants were all in their 20s, 30s, and 40s. Focus group sessions allowed for identifying the concept of "reading" for the adult. This paper suggests that reading action was constructed with 5 dimensions. 1) Objects; What they read, 2) Backgrounds and goals; Why and for what they read, 3) Action; How they read, 4) Effects; How they are influenced after reading, 5) Place; Where they read. It must be emphasized that "Objects" could be recognized as more complicated dimensions in this paper. The dimension consisted of following 3 parts; 1) Physical materials, 2) Genres, 3) Values of the contents.

• Access to Document (DOI)
• CiNii Research

Re-examination of evidence-based librarianship (EBL): A content analysis of journal articles

Shuichi Ueda, Junko Shiozaki, Chihiro Kunimoto, Yosuke Miyata, Sawako Hayashi, Shinji Mine, Emi Ishida, Keiko Kurata

LIBRARY AND INFORMATION SCIENCE  ( 59 ) 105 - 115 2008

Accepted,  ISSN  0373-4447

• CiNii Research