book clubs and reading groups
book history and technology
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codex versus hypertext studies
collective interpretation and meaning-making
collective reading experiences
comparative media studies
continuity between print and digital eras
cultural history of the book
data-driven literary analysis
democratization of literary access
digital archives and preservation
digital authorship and readership
digital humanities scholarship
digital reading culture
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evolution of reading practices
evolution of textual interpretation
global publishing networks
globalization of literary circulation
history of print and digital media
human-computer interaction in reading
hybrid reading environments
internet and literary reception
intersection of technology and narrative
literary communities online
literary taste and identity online
materiality of the book
media and literary studies
networked readership
new media and storytelling
online reading communities
participatory culture and literature
participatory media and literature
post-print literary culture
prison literacy programs
reader response theory
reading and social connection
reading as civic engagement
reading habits in the digital age
reimagining literacy in the information age
social dimensions of reading
sociology of reading
technological change and cultural continuity
transformation
transformation of book culture
transnational book distribution
twenty-first century literacy
virtual libraries and online texts
zine culture and DIY publishing
Product details
- ISBN 9781558499539
- Weight: 415g
- Dimensions: 149 x 226mm
- Publication Date: 21 Aug 2012
- Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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The start of the twenty-first century has brought with it a rich variety of ways in which readers can connect with one another, access texts, and make sense of what they are reading. At the same time, new technologies have also opened up exciting possibilities for scholars of reading and reception in offering them unprecedented amounts of data on reading practices, book buying patterns, and book collecting habits. In From Codex to Hypertext, scholars from multiple disciplines engage with both of these strands. This volume includes essays that consider how changes such as the mounting ubiquity of digital technology and the globalization of structures of publication and book distribution are shaping the way readers participate in the encoding and decoding of textual meaning. Contributors also examine how and why reading communities cohere in a range of contexts, including prisons, book clubs, networks of zinesters, state-funded programs designed to promote active citizenship, and online spaces devoted to sharing one’s tastes in books. As concerns circulate in the media about the ways that reading?for so long anchored in print culture and the codex?is at risk of being irrevocably altered by technological shifts, this book insists on the importance of tracing the historical continuities that emerge between these reading practices and those of previous eras. In addition to the volume editor, contributors include Daniel Allington, Bethan Benwell, Jin Feng, Ed Finn, Danielle Fuller, David S. Miall, Julian Pinder, Janice Radway, Julie Rak, DeNel Rehberg Sedo, Megan Sweeney, Joan Bessman Taylor, Molly Abel Travis, and David Wright.
Anouk Lang is a Lecturer in English Studies at the University of Strathclyde and an honorary research fellow in the School of English, Drama, and American and Canadian Studies at the University of Birmingham.
