“[A]s online readers construct their own navigational pathways through online text, they must be able to regulate their movement between (a) newer online search and evaluation processes that typically occur very rapidly across hundreds of short Internet texts and (b) less spontaneous, more traditional self-regulation strategies within longer text passages that require more time and effort (Coiro & Dobler, 2007). These complexities, then, introduce a new metacognitive regulatory strategy required to combat the motivation of efficiency and spontaneity in order to ultimately slow down and read for meaning….”
Coiro, J. (2015). Purposeful, critical, and flexible: Vital dimensions of online reading and learning. In R. Spiro, M. DeSchryver, M. Hagerman, P. Morsink, & P. Thompson (Eds.), Reading at a crossroads? Disjunctures and continuities in current conceptions and practices (pp. 92-110). New York: Routledge.
Also see:
uni-tasking
massively multiplying crossroads