From Codex to Hypertext : Reading at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (276 pages)
- Studies in Print Culture and the History of the Book Series .
- Studies in Print Culture and the History of the Book Series .
Cover -- Contents -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Transforming Reading -- Part I. Communities and Practices -- 1. Zines Then and Now: What are They? What Do You Do with Them? How Do They Work? -- 2. Have Mouse, Will Travel: Consuming and Creating Chinese Popular Literature on the Web -- 3. Online Literary Communities: A Case Study of Library Thing -- 4. Building a National Culture of Reading in the "New" South Africa -- 5. Literary Taste and List Culture in a Time of "Endless Choice" -- 6. "Keepin' it Real": Incarcerated Women's Readings of African American Urban Fiction -- 7. Producing Meaning Through Interaction: Book Groups and the Social Context of Reading -- 8. Genre in the Marketplace: The Scene of Bookselling in Canada -- Part II: Methods -- 9. New Literary Cultures: Mapping the Digital Networks of Toni Morrison -- 10. Confounding the Literary: Temporal Problems in Hypertext -- 11. Reading the Reading Experience: An Ethnomethodological Approach to "Booktalk" -- 12. Mixing it up: Using Mixed Methods Research to Investigate Contemporary Cultures of Reading -- About the Contributors -- Index -- Back Cover.