From Codex to Hypertext Reading at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century

Name: From Codex to Hypertext Reading at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century
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ISBN: 9781558499539

ISBN-10: 1558499539

ISBN-13: 9781558499539

Edition: 2012

Authors: Anouk Lang, Daniel Allington, Bethan Benwell, Jin Feng, Edward Finn

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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…

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List price: $29.95
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
Publication date: 8/30/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 288
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.880



Acknowledgments


Introduction: Transforming Reading




Communities and Practices



Zines then and Now: What Are They? What Do You Do With Them? How Do They Work?




Have Mouse, Will Travel: Consuming and Creating Chinese Popular Literature on the Web




Online Literary Communities: A Case Study of LibraryThing




Building a National Culture of Reading in the "New" South Africa




Literary Taste and List Culture in a Time of "Endless Choice"




"Keepin' It Real": Incarcerated Women's Readings of African American Urban Fiction




Producing Meaning Through Interaction: Book Groups and the Social Context of Reading




Genre in the Marketplace: The Scene of Bookselling in Canada




Methods



New Literary Cultures: Mapping the Digital Networks of Toni Morrison




Confounding the Literary: Temporal Problems in Hypertext




Reading the Reading Experience: An Ethnomethodological Approach to "Booktalk"




Mixing it Up: Using Mixed Methods Research to Investigate Contemporary Cultures of Reading



About the Contributors


Index