From codex to hypertext : reading at the turn of the twenty-first century
Lang, Anouk (2012) From codex to hypertext : reading at the turn of the twenty-first century. Studies in Print Culture and the History of the Book . University of Massachusetts Press, Amherst, MA. ISBN 9781558499522
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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 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.
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Item type: Book ID code: 41121 Dates: DateEvent29 August 2012PublishedSubjects: Language and Literature > English Department: Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences (HaSS) > Humanities > English Depositing user: Pure Administrator Date deposited: 13 Sep 2012 13:16 Last modified: 12 Dec 2024 15:52 Related URLs: URI: https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/41121