The study conducted by Kouider Mokhtari , Carla A. Reichard, and Anne Gardner investigate how internet and television use impacts a college student in terms of their recreational reading and academic reading.  A hypothesis was that the internet created a change in how students would spend their time. The authors wanted to find if the trend in American reading less, having low reading skills, and that these declines impacted a negative civic, social, and economic implications was true for college students.  The questions that the authors asked included: How much time do college students spend on recreational and academic reading? What influences do internet and television use have on students’ reading habits and practices?  To find out these answers they performed a time-diary survey with a random sample of 4,500 undergraduate college students who attend a highly selective midwestern university.  The respondents received an email to voluntary participate in the survey.  Those who more likely to respond were female, full-time students, and their age was twenty-three or younger.  They found that students reported spending their time more on the internet than they did on academic reading, television watching, or recreational reading.  Also, found that a majority of respondents performed other activities while recreationally reading, academically reading, television watching, and using the internet.  An interesting find was that students spent significantly more time using the internet on Mondays and they did on Saturdays. Overall, I think the study showed a reality of how college students engage in recreational reading, academic reading, watching television, and Internet use.  I think it would have interesting to see if the study would have similar results if it was done in a public college rather than a highly selective midwestern university.

Mokhtari, Kouider, Carla A. Reichard, and Anne Gardner. “The Impact of Internet and Television Use on the Reading Habits and Practices of College Students.” Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy 52.7 (2009): 609-19. Jstor . Web. 18 Feb. 2017. <http://www.jstor.org/stable/20468414>.