An empirical study on the "reading" of manga and digital textbooks

2014 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 24501173
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Educational technology
• Research Institution: Tohoku University
• Principal Investigator: KUBO Shunichi 東北大学, 情報科学研究科, 准教授 (50161659)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): WADA Yuichi 東北大学, 大学院情報科学研究科, 准教授 (80312635) ; MIURA Kazushi 東北大学, 大学院情報科学研究科, 博士特定研究員 (20583628)
• Project Period (FY): 2012-04-01 – 2015-03-31
• Keywords: マンガ / 電子書籍 / メディアリテラシー / 認知心理学

Outline of Final Research Achievements

The reading process is changing with the rapid development of digital media, especially with the devices such as computers, iPad or Kindle. We read books different from before. More and more books are digitized, in Japan especially the manga. The differences of the reading between the digitized manga and the printed manga were investigated by the survey among students. One talks often about the manga reading, but one can't prove why so is. We used the method of cognitive psychology and tried to make clear, how to read the manga, for example the space perception or what one pays attention to by the manga reading.

Free Research Field

メディア情報学