Nur Wahidah Thayib Pido 1 *, Fatrah Dwik Cantika Sujitno

Keywords: technology, reading comprehension. 

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the development of digital technology. These developments have made communication and 
information technology increasingly integrated or popular with the term "convergence." The 
mainstream media was not yet an integral part of the information and communication 
technology convergence issues.
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In today's modern world there are wide range of sophisticated technologies, such as 
telephone communication devices, social media, transportation, and so forth. The internet 
becomes a worldwide community, including students. The intensified term is called home to 
thousands upon thousands of programs used to obtain various information as well as for learners 
to read learning materials. 
Reading is one of activities in the process of acquiring knowledge. Through the student's 
literature, information that is presented in a book can be gleaned which they can apply in their 
daily life. Students can thus improve their quality by becoming interested in reading. A desire 
to read is a strong desire along with efforts-the one's striving to read. Interest in reading is 
embodied in the elements of mindfulness, willingness, encouragement and pleasure to read. All 
of this is an activity of perseverance and a sedentary nature. (Farida Rahim). 
However, reading activity among students is waning. The researchers’ hypothesis 
focuses on current technological developments that led to students’ interest in reading, 
especially interest in reading the text in print media. This is a live survey by Nielsen consumer 
and media view (CMV) in the second quarter of 2016. 
Executive director, head of watch business Nielsen Indonesia, Hellen Katherina claims 
that only nine percent of the Z generation are currently reading newspapers, magazines or 
tabloids in print. The selections select information from television and the Internet. (Mayapada 
Tower, Central Jakarta. Wednesday, 19/10/2016). 
These six years were conducted with 17,000 surveys aged 10 to 19. Nielsen then 
divided them into two groups. The first group is 10-14 years of children. And the second group 
is 15-19, the teen category. And as a result, only 4 percent of children still read the printing 
press, 98 percent chose to watch television, 13 percent chose to play the Internet, 10 percent 
used pay-per-view television, and 7 percent listened to the radio. As for the youth, only 9 
percent still read in print, starting with newspapers, magazines, and tabloids, while 97 percent 
chose TV viewing, and 81 percent chose the Internet. 
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Hamzah B. Uno dan Nina Lamatenggo, Teknologi Komunikasi dan Informasi Pembelajaran, 
(Jakarta:BumiAksara 2014) hal. 186-187 

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Regarding this finding, the researchers focused on the high percentage of technological 
use of information towards the students’ reading behavior.