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.
Author(s): Maria Engberg, Iben Have, Birgitte Stougaard Pedersen
Series: Routledge Research in Digital Humanities
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2022
Language: English
Pages: 256
City: London
Cover
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
Figures
Contributors
Introduction
Theoretical and methodological framework
Framing reading
References
Section I: Historical and Sociocultural Perspectives on Reading
Introduction to Section I
References
1. Reading and materiality: conditions of digital reading
A day in a life
Digital interfaces
References
2. History of media cultures from the perspective of multisensory reading
Conceptions of reading
The canonized "oral-literate-electronic-digital" schema
Ideas of sensory biases
Ong and oralities
Dissolving the sensory hierarchy of reading
References
3. The condition of reading in a digital media culture
Hypertextual
Multimedial
Collective
Locative
Layered materialities and the digital reading condition
References
4. Reading toward multiliteracies: understanding reading comprehension and reading experience
Text practices and the digital reading condition
Digital reading
Reading in educational contexts
Multimodality and reading
Literacy and multiliteracies
Critical and curious approaches toward digital reading
References
Section II: Multisensory Reading
Introduction to Section II
5. Reading and the senses: cultural and technological perspectives
Senses, knowledge, and cultural hierarchies
Technology, digital media, and the senses
From the senses to the multisensory
References
6. Reading a literary app for children
Introduction
Ambiguous app - Sofus and the Moonmachine
Examples of research on materiality
Intrinsic material qualities - the embodiment of the literary app for children
The physicality of the app
The mode of existence of the app - the cultural scope of materiality
Conclusion
Note
References
7. Trends in immersive journalism
Introduction
Basic understandings of immersive journalism
Just like being there - VR, AR, and 360° immersive journalistic narratives
Audio news and sound as the immersive medium par excellence
Reaching out to journalism
References
8. Multisensory reading of digital audiobooks
Introduction
Background and specifics of audio reading
Haptics of technology
Mediated touch
The intimate and social voice of audiobooks
Voice as orality and vocality
Audiobook reading as a multisensory experience
References
9. How to read a network, or the Internet as unfinished demo
Technical specs matter
Layers, interfaces, and black boxes
The Internet as an unfinished demo
Acknowledgments
References
Section III: Reading Engagement: Aspects of Digital Reading
Introduction to Section III
References
10. Deep, focused, and critical reading between media
Close reading or reading closely?
Deep reading
Fast, slow, reading compression
Polyreading - understanding the multisensory
References
11. Reading digital interfaces and audiobooks: media-specific and multisensory aspects of immersion
Reading with the senses up front - multisensory reading
Media-sensitive analysis
Aspects of immersion
Being absorbed or immersed
Voice
Atmosphere, moods, presence
Multisensory reading in context
Note
References
12. Motivations for audiobook reading in modern everyday lives
From wax to web: the technological development
Multitasking and mood management
Forgetting time and space
The paradox of multitasking
Notes
References
Section IV: Young Readers Between Media
Introduction to Section IV
13. Digital reading in education: a situated disciplinary literacies perspective
A situated literacies perspective
A disciplinary literacies perspective
Digital reading in a Nordic context
Digital reading in L1
An archeology of digital reading in Danish L1
The Hans Christian Andersen case study on digital reading in L1
Digital reading in future education - a critical discussion
Notes
References
14. Different modes of reading - eighth-grade students' interaction with a digital narrative
Introduction
The framework for the study of students' interaction with NORD
Understanding interaction with the digital story as a bodily and aesthetic exchange
A phenomenological approach and concepts for analysis
Case 1: The navigation challenges and motivates at the same time - determined and interpreting interaction
Case 2: Navigational game competencies with an eye for detail - investigative interaction
Case 3: Being present in the game room - experiencing and sensory interaction
Case 4: Concentration and reflection pauses - experiencing and sensory interaction
Different modes of reading a digital story
References
15. Transmedial reading
Introduction
Case and method
What were you expecting?
Cognitive operations: anticipating and reflecting. Experiential threads: emotional, social
What do you see?
Cognitive operations: recounting and reflecting. Experiential threads: compositional, sensual
How does this make sense?
Cognitive operations: interpreting and connecting. Experiential threads: compositional, spatio-temporal
What does it mean to you?
Cognitive operations: reflecting and appropriating. Experiential threads: emotional, social
Transmedial reading findings
Note
References
16. Readers between media: sixth-grade students tuning in to literature in different formats
Introduction
Reading experience in a school context - theoretical framework
Data
Attunement as Stimmung and presence
Attunement as identification
Attunement as interpretation and existential resonance
From what literature states to what it does in a school context
Note
References
Section V: Aesthetics and Digital Reading
Introduction to Section V
References
17. Situated reading
Reading situations
Reading on the phone I: ubiquitous reading
Mobile places and digital reading practices
Reading on the phone II: networked reading
Everyday reading, time, and relationality
References
18. Reading: atmosphere, ambience, and attunement
Figure and ground in context
First reading situation
Second reading situation
Third reading situation
Attunement
Atmosphere
Ambience
Figure/ground reconfigured
References
19. Resonance and the digital conditions of reading
The touch of reading
Reading beyond the gatekeepers
Digital resonance
Notes
References
Conclusion: the digital reading condition
Multisensory and situated reading
Personal and social reading
Out of many: polyaesthetics, multisensory, polymedia, transmedia, and plenitude
Institutional perspectives
References
Index
