Chapter 10: When Voices Become Data: Reading Data Documenting Contemporary Reading.
The article examines the transition from studying individual readers, like Menocchio in the book "The Cheese and the Worms," to analyzing contemporary reading communities documented in online platforms such as Goodreads, BookTube, and BookTok. It contrasts the detailed understanding of historical re...
| Published in: | Transactions of the American Philosophical Society Vol. 112; no. 3; pp. 201 - 216 |
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University of Pennsylvania Press
2023
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| Summary: | The article examines the transition from studying individual readers, like Menocchio in the book "The Cheese and the Worms," to analyzing contemporary reading communities documented in online platforms such as Goodreads, BookTube, and BookTok. It contrasts the detailed understanding of historical readers like Menocchio with the challenges of interpreting digitally rendered readers whose identities are often obscured by usernames and avatars. |
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