KIIT Journal of Library and Information Management

  • Year: 2020
  • Volume: 7
  • Issue: 1

The Newspaper Reading Habits Among Undergraduate Audiology Speech Language-pathology Students in Mangalore: A Case Study

1Librarian, Dr. M V Shetty College of Speech and Hearing, Mangalore, Karnataka, India

2Librarian, SDM College of Business Management, Mangalore, Karnataka, India

Abstract

The study investigates newspaper reading habits among undergraduate students of Speech and hearing. Survey method was used for this study. The data was collected through questionnaire. A total of 300 questionnaires were distributed among students out of which the investigators could receive 204 questionnaires constituting a response rate of 68%. The study found that most of the respondents were female and majority of them spend 30 to 60 minutes time for reading newspaper. It was also discovered that the majority of the respondents are preferred Electronics newspapers and interested to read the news about the scientific articles.

Keywords

Newspaper, Reading habits, Speech language students, Undergraduate students, Case study