{"product_id":"digital-social-reading-isbn-9780262550918","title":"Digital Social Reading","description":"\u003cb\u003eHow digital social reading apps are powerfully changing—and nurturing—the way we read.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eConventional wisdom would have us believe that digital technology is a threat to reading, but in \u003ci\u003eDigital Social Reading\u003c\/i\u003e, Federico Pianzola argues that reading socially through digital media can help people grow a passion for reading and, in some cases, even enhance text comprehension. Digital social reading (DSR) is a term that encompasses a wide variety of practices related to the activity of reading and using digital technologies and platforms (websites, social media, mobile apps) to share thoughts and impressions about books with others. This book is the first systematization of DSR practices, drawing on case studies from Wattpad, AO3, and Goodreads on a worldwide scale.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eUsing 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 asserts that grassroots media and open, bottom-up communities are crucial to the success of many reading practices today, especially with young audiences.Acknowledgements\u003cbr\u003ePreface\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003eChapter 1: Social Reading Becomes Digital\u003cbr\u003eChapter 2: The Varieties of Digital Social Reading\u003cbr\u003eChapter 3: Wattpad\u003cbr\u003eChapter 4: Fanfiction\u003cbr\u003eChapter 5: Cataloging, Rating, Reviewing\u003cbr\u003eChapter 6: The Impact of Digital Reading\u003cbr\u003eConclusion“\u003ci\u003eDigital Social Reading \u003c\/i\u003eis a timely and important contribution to our understanding of emerging technologies and trends in contemporary reading cultures. Innovative in the range of methods used, and ambitious in scale, the study offers an insightful and refreshingly optimistic take on communities and practices all too often ignored or misunderstood.”\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Bronwen Thomas, Emeritus Professor of English and New Media, Bournemouth University\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eDigital Social Reading\u003c\/i\u003e is a triumph of synthesis. Ranging across countries, languages, platforms and methodologies, Pianzola surveys the past 15 years of fiction-reading technologies and forecasts how they will continue to democratize readerly authority.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Simone Murray, Associate Professor of Literary Studies, Monash University; author of \u003ci\u003eThe Digital Literary Sphere \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eIntroduction to Contemporary Print Culture\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“Pianzola gives us a brilliant and refreshingly international overview of the objects, institutions, and activities that constitute ‘digital social reading’ and a lucid guide to the ingenious new methods that have emerged to study it.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—James F. English, John Welsh Centennial Professor of English and Founder of the Price Lab for Digital Humanities, University of Pennsylvania; author of \u003ci\u003eThe Global Future of English Studies\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eFederico Pianzola is Assistant Professor of Computational Humanities at the University of Groningen.","brand":"The MIT Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46304192987365,"sku":"NP9780262550918","price":40.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780262550918.jpg?v=1767725125","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/digital-social-reading-isbn-9780262550918","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}