From Codex to Hypertext: Reading at the Turn of the Twenty-first Century - Couverture souple

 
9781558499539: From Codex to Hypertext: Reading at the Turn of the Twenty-first Century
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 1558499539 ISBN 13 : 9781558499539
Editeur : University of Massachusetts Press, 2012

Synopsis

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.

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À propos de l?auteur

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.

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Éditeur
University of Massachusetts Press
Date d'édition
2012
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1558499539
ISBN 13 
9781558499539
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
288
Éditeur
Lang Anouk
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
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9781558499522: From Codex to Hypertext: Reading at the Turn of the Twenty-first Century

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ISBN 10 :  1558499520 ISBN 13 :  9781558499522
Editeur : University of Massachusetts Press, 2012
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