"What happens if we separate the idea of "the book" from the experience it has traditionally provided? Lynn Coady challenges book lovers addicted to the physical book to confront their darkest fears about the digital world and the future of reading. Is the all-pervasive Internet…
"What happens if we separate the idea of "the book" from the experience it has traditionally provided? Lynn Coady challenges book lovers addicted to the physical book to confront their darkest fears about the digital world and the future of reading. Is the all-pervasive Internet…
"What happens if we separate the idea of 'the book' from the experience it has traditionally provided? Lynn Coady challenges book lovers addicted to the physical book to confront their darkest fears about the digital world and the future of reading. Is the all-pervasive Internet…
"What happens if we separate the idea of "the book" from the experience it has traditionally provided? Lynn Coady challenges book lovers addicted to the physical book to confront their darkest fears about the digital world and the future of reading. Is the all-pervasive Internet…
"Social media and digital technologies are transforming what, and how, we read. Books and Social Media considers the way in which readers and writers come together in digital communities to discover, and create, new works of fiction. This new way of engaging with fiction stretch…
"Social media and digital technologies are transforming what, and how, we read. Books and Social Media considers the way in which readers and writers come together in digital communities to discover, and create, new works of fiction. This new way of engaging with fiction stretch…
Social media and digital technologies are transforming what and how we read. Books and Social Media considers the way in which readers and writers come together in digital communities to discover and create new works of fiction. This new way of engaging with fiction stretches th…
For decades, we've been warned that video killed the radio star, and, more recently, that social media has replaced reading. Nerdfighteria, a first-of-its-kind online literary community with nearly three million members, challenges these assumptions. It is the brainchild of brot…
""Nerdfighteria," a first-of-its-kind online literary community with nearly three million members, is the brainchild of brothers Hank and John Green. From their YouTube channel, the brothers provide video clips from John, a best-selling author most famous for his Young Adult boo…
""Nerdfighteria," a first-of-its-kind online literary community with nearly three million members, is the brainchild of brothers Hank and John Green. From their YouTube channel, the brothers provide video clips from John, a best-selling author most famous for his Young Adult boo…
"Reading social media both in relation to literature, but also as a literary form in its own right, this lively guide demonstrates that social media platforms have produced their own unique and distinctive forms of creative expression. Bronwyn Thomas takes a unique approach exam…
From the Holodeck to the Tweetdeck: electronic literature, interactivity and participation -- Old Wines in New Bottles? Retelling and reimagining the literary with social media -- The Twittersphere as Literary Playground -- Canons and Curators -- Literary Networks -- New Literar…
"Reading social media both in relation to literature, but also as a literary form in its own right, this lively guide demonstrates that social media platforms have produced their own unique and distinctive forms of creative expression. Bronwyn Thomas takes a unique approach exam…
From Instapoetry to BookTube, contemporary literary cultures and practices are increasingly intertwined with social media. In this lively and wide-ranging study, Bronwen Thomas explores how social media provides new ways of connecting with and rediscovering established literary …
"Andrew Piper grew up liking books and loving computers. While occasionally burying his nose in books, he was going to computer camp, programming his Radio Shack TRS-80, and playing Pong. His eventual love of reading made him a historian of the book and a connoisseur of print, b…
Discusses the rise of e-readers and how their popularity is affecting the way people read books, the way people write books, and what might be lost if reading goes entirely digital.-- Publsiher's description ; Overview: People have been reading on computer screens for several de…
