Full Description
This volume offers a critical overview of digital reading practices and scholarly efforts to analyze and understand reading in the mediatized landscape. Building on research about digital reading, born-digital literature, and digital audiobooks, The Digital Reading Condition explores reading as part of a broader cultural shift encompassing many forms of media and genres.
Bringing together research from media and literary studies, digital humanities, scholarship on reading and learning, as well as sensory studies and research on multimodal and multisensory media reception, the authors address and challenge print-biased conceptions of reading that are still prevalent in research, whether the reading medium is print or digital. They argue that the act of reading itself is changing, and rather than rejecting digital media as unsuitable for sustained or focused reading practices, they argue that the complex media landscape challenges us to rethink how to define reading as a mediated practice.
Presenting a truly interdisciplinary perspective on digital reading practices, this volume will appeal to scholars and graduate students in communication, media studies, new media and technology, literature, digital humanities, literacy studies, composition, and rhetoric.
Contents
List of Contributors; Introduction; Section I: Historical and Sociocultural Perspectives on Reading; Introduction to Section I; 1. Reading and Materiality: Conditions of Digital Reading; 2. History of Media Cultures from the Perspective of Multisensory Reading; 3. The Condition of Reading in a Digital Media Culture; 4. Reading Toward Multiliteracies: Understanding Reading Comprehension and Reading Experience; Section II: Multisensory Reading; Introduction to Section II; 5. Reading and the Senses: Cultural and Technological Perspectives; 6. Reading a Literary App for Children; 7. Trends in Immersive Journalism; 8. Multisensory Reading of Digital Audiobooks; 9. How to Read a Network, or the Internet as Unfinished Demo; Section III: Reading Engagement: Aspects of Digital Reading; Introduction to Section III; 10. Deep, Focused, and Critical Reading Between Media; 11. Reading Digital Interfaces and Audiobooks: Media-Specific and Multisensory Aspects of Immersion; 12. Motivations for Audiobook Reading in Modern Everyday Lives; Section IV: Young Readers Between Media; Introduction to Section IV; 13. Digital Reading in Education: A Situated Disciplinary Literacies Perspective; 14. Different Modes of Reading: Eighth-Grade Students' Interaction with a Digital Narrative; 15. Transmedial Reading; 16. Readers Between Media: Sixth-Grade Students Tuning in to Literature in Different Formats; Section V: Aesthetics and Digital Reading; Introduction to Section V; 17. Situated Reading; 18. Reading: Atmosphere, Ambience, and Attunement; 19. Resonance and the Digital Conditions of Reading; Conclusion: The Digital Reading Condition
