TY - JOUR
T1 - Pratiques de lecture numérique chez les tunisiens
AU - Mkadmi, Abderrazak
AU - Ben Romdhane, Mohamed
N1 - A. Mkadmi, M. Ben Romdhane.- "Digital reading practices among Tunisians, in: Arab review of archives, documentation and information, vol. 47, 2020, pp. 167-200, ISSN 033-6763
PY - 2020
Y1 - 2020
N2 - This article aims to reveal the different reading-writing practices and to know to what extent the new digital tools and environments have modified the behaviors and practices among readers of Tunisian libraries, of different ages and different academic levels. It is based on a field study, in the form of a questionnaire survey, conducted among 707 Tunisian readers who use university and public libraries and other documentary organizations. The main results of this study show that mobile technology has become the main tool for reading and that the digital book or e-book has become one of the media which, with its dematerialized format, is the real competitor of the paper book. As for digital documents, respondents have preferences rather for journal articles in PDF format, which they find on the web and download to read them, while using full-text search and note-taking on paper. The smartphone is considered the preferred hardware for digital reading. For applications, Facebook, Messenger and YouTube have become the most used communication and sharing tools. Ultimately, the article comes to the conclusion that affirms that reading in a digital world does not depend on a few technical and cognitive abilities, it also and above all depends on other socio-cultural, political and historical contexts. Finally, there is a question relating to the strategies of Arab countries for the development of digital resources, the supply of which remains very meager compared to that of European countries.
AB - This article aims to reveal the different reading-writing practices and to know to what extent the new digital tools and environments have modified the behaviors and practices among readers of Tunisian libraries, of different ages and different academic levels. It is based on a field study, in the form of a questionnaire survey, conducted among 707 Tunisian readers who use university and public libraries and other documentary organizations. The main results of this study show that mobile technology has become the main tool for reading and that the digital book or e-book has become one of the media which, with its dematerialized format, is the real competitor of the paper book. As for digital documents, respondents have preferences rather for journal articles in PDF format, which they find on the web and download to read them, while using full-text search and note-taking on paper. The smartphone is considered the preferred hardware for digital reading. For applications, Facebook, Messenger and YouTube have become the most used communication and sharing tools. Ultimately, the article comes to the conclusion that affirms that reading in a digital world does not depend on a few technical and cognitive abilities, it also and above all depends on other socio-cultural, political and historical contexts. Finally, there is a question relating to the strategies of Arab countries for the development of digital resources, the supply of which remains very meager compared to that of European countries.
KW - reading-writing practices
KW - Tunisia
KW - Tunisian researcher
M3 - Article
SN - 0330-6763
VL - 47
SP - 167
EP - 200
JO - Revue arabe d'archives, de documentation et d'information
JF - Revue arabe d'archives, de documentation et d'information
M1 - https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-02997784
ER -