This research proposal examines how technology decreases reading habits among students. It aims to identify factors influencing the decline in reading and increase in technology dependence. The study will survey 1500 university students using questionnaires to collect both quantitative and qualitative data on age, gender, and media preferences. The proposal outlines the background of declining reading rates as students spend more time on devices instead of books. The objectives are to study this problem and other influencing variables like education system changes. A literature review discusses experts' views on benefits of reading and concerns about a shift to digital texts. The methodology, ethics, limitations, timeline and bibliography are also provided at a high level.

1. RESEARCH PROPOSAL
PRESENTED BY:
TOOBA ABDUL RAHIM

2. 1.TITLE:
• Technology decrease the habit of reading in
students.

3. 2. BACKGROUND TO THE RESEARCH:
• A sharp decline among youth in reading habits has been observed
during the last four years, as books have been replaced by cell-
phones, computers, laptops, iPads and tablets.
• There is an old saying that ‘book is the best friend’. However, in era of
technology, the time to be spent on reading books is now being spent
on surfing the Internet with these gadgets.
• Because of the availability of Internet access, in schools and libraries,
students are increasingly becoming involved in this new technology.
They prefer to study online rather than reading their course books.

4. 3.THE RESEARCH PROBLEM:
• Reading habits are influenced by technology. Students
spend less time with books and other informative sites

5. 4.THE OBJECTIVES OF THE RESEARCH:
• The main objective of the study is identify other factors
which are influencing the declining habits in readers and
increasing their dependence on technology, such as
change of educational system from annual to semester
system. The variables include in our study are age,
gender and their respective preferences.

6. 5.LITERATURE REVIEW:
• Reading according to Holte (1998) adds quality to life and
provides access to culture and cultural heritage. He pointed out
that reading empowers and liberates citizens and bring people
together.
• Okeke (2000) restates that the art of reading is a priceless
instrument for everyone. It is one of the most important
activities of life through which we enter into the life and
experiences of others and extend our knowledge, scope of
experience and enjoyment. It has critical role to play in the
overall development of an individual and the nation at large.

7. • But nowadays there is a significant and widespread change brought up
by technology. There is a huge change of decline from reading books to
increase in reading from online digital text. "A mode of thinking is being
lost," laments Neil Postman, whose book, "Amusing Ourselves to
Death," is a warning about the significances of a falloff in reading.
• Kaufman (2001) observed that children spend their time watching TV
and playing video games when they are not spending a great deal of
time reading and writing. Statistics collected according to Kaufman by
the U.S Department of Education "National Centre for Educational
Statistics" shows that student’s achievements has been declining in
recent times.
• Shabi and Udofia (2009) noted that active learning from books is better
than passive learning such as watching televisions and playing games.

8. 6.METHODOLOGY:
• In this research I am going to use survey method and the
data which I will collect it will be quantitative and
qualitative both.
• My data collecting tool was questionnaire. I will select
1500 respondents from random sampling. All
respondents are the students from different University.

9. 7.ETHICAL ISSUES:
• I will not force anyone to answer the questionnaire.
• I will not do anything that would achieve emotional
harm to my respondents.
• I will make sure that all the personal information of the
respondents will be confidential.

10. 8.ACCESS ISSUES
• This study is only limited to Karachi because of limited time
and sample is taken by universities of Karachi only.
• Financial limitations overly involved to conduct the study in
a broad scale.
• Limitations of experience were another issue that upset to
finish the study in composed way.
• Conflict of interest from respondents.

11. 9.TIME-SCALE.
To conduct this survey I need 2 months
Designing of
questionnaire
15 days
Data collection 20 days
Data analyzing 10 days
Writing of final report 15 days

12. 10.BIBLOGRAPHY
• http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:pY_e7
eq3H4EJ:www.white-
clouds.com/iclc/cliej/cl35AHH.pdf+&cd=8&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=pk
• http://conflict.lshtm.ac.uk/page_14.htm#Ethical_Community_ap
proval
• http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/islamabad/21-Jan-2014/habit-of-
book-reading-declining-among-youth
• http://www.webpages.uidaho.edu/~mbolin/igbokwe-obodike-
ezeji.htm

13. THANK YOU…