The culture of extracurricular reading among students in the internet era

Abstract

The article examines the phenomenon of extracurricular reading as a potential educational resource for university students in the Internet era. Based on a study of a sociologically representative sample of a group of students at Nanchang University (China), it was found that students’ extracurricular reading is characterized by the following features: 1) there are no clear and meaningful goals for choosing a subject and the amount of literature read; 2) among the selected reading nomenclature, electronic media dominate; 3) when choosing the thematic orientation of the literature being read, priority is given to publications in which entertaining content predominates; 4) the clip nature and visual forms of presenting information are also an important argument when choosing literary sources for extracurricular reading. These features quite convincingly indicate that the problem of a reading culture among students in the Internet era is very acute and requires the adoption and implementation of a comprehensive system of educational and organizational measures