Digital Social Reading - Sharing Fiction in the Twenty-First Century

How digital social reading apps are powerfully changing—and nurturing—the way we read.

Conventional wisdom would have us believe that digital technology is a threat to reading, but in
Using a combination of qualitative and computational methods, Pianzola offers fresh insight into the reading experience on the scale of big data. He discusses the impact of digital technology on reading skills and shows that a change of methodological perspective is necessary to understand the positive potential of DSR for promoting reading more broadly. He argues that it is not just the medium that changes, but also the context and the attitudes of readers. He also believes that grassroots media and open, bottom-up communities are crucial to the success of many reading practices today, especially with young audiences.

List of contents

Acknowledgements
Preface
Introduction
Chapter 1: Social Reading Becomes Digital
Chapter 2: The Varieties of Digital Social Reading
Chapter 3: Wattpad
Chapter 4: Fanfiction
Chapter 5: Cataloging, Rating, Reviewing
Chapter 6: The Impact of Digital Reading
Conclusion

About the author

Federico Pianzola is Assistant Professor of Computational Humanities at the University of Groningen.

Product details

• Authors: Federico Pianzola
• Publisher: The MIT Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 17.12.2024
• EAN: 9780262550918
• ISBN: 978-0-262-55091-8
• No. of pages: 224
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 15 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, Literacy, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Literacy, Language: reference & general, EDUCATION / Teaching / Subjects / Reading & Phonics