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Instructors: Univ.-Prof. Dr. Gerhard Lauer
Event type:
Graduate seminar
Displayed in timetable as:
Book/Internet
Hours per week:
2
Language of instruction:
German
Min. | Max. participants:
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Requirements / organisational issues:
We want to discuss a number of exciting recent research results, both theoretically and methodologically. For this purpose, it is pivotal importance to a) regularly attend the seminar, b) prepare a paper possibly also in a small group and c) summarise the results of the paper and its discussion in a short report by the end of February 2022.
Contents:
The transformation of the book, its production, distribution and reception through digitalisation is changing (almost) all processes and roles. The topic of the seminar are the recent developments and current insights of research into this transformation. Moreover the critical accompaniment of new methods and the discussion of current theoretical models is of pivotal importance for the seminar. Therefore the seminar discusses recent trends in book studies and reading research.
Recommended reading list:
Bourrier, K., & Thelwall, M., The Social Lives of Books: Reading Victorian Literature on Goodreads, Journal of Cultural Analytics (February 20, 2020): 1-34, https://culturalanalytics.org/article/12049-the-social-lives-of-books-reading-victorian-literature-on-goodreads.
English, J. F., Enderle, S., & Dhakecha, R., Mining Goodreads: Literary Reception Studies at Scale, https://pricelab.sas.upenn.edu/projects/goodreads-project.
Friesen, N., The Textbook and the Lecture. Education in the Age of New Media. Baltimore: John Hopkins UP 2017.
Global Digital Publishing Markets Report 2021 (May 19, 2021), https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/global-digital-publishing-markets-report-2021-increasing-digitization-of-books-and-educational-information---forecast-to-2025--2030-301295063.html
Hegel, A., Social Reading in the Digital Age, 2018, https://www.proquest.com/pqdtglobal/docview/2061506661/3AEADF32C9E44C24PQ/1
Hughes, D., The Publishing Industry in a Digital Age, https://digitalmarketinginstitute.com/blog/the-publishing-industry-in-a-digital-age
Kurcikova, N., & Cremin, T., Children Reading for Pleasure in the Digital Age. Los Angeles: Sage 2020.
Murray, S., The Digital Literary Sphere. Reading, Writing, and Selling Books in the Internet Era. Baltimore: John Hopkins UP 2018.
Murray, S., Secret Agents: Algorithmic Culture, Goodreads and Datafication of the Contemporary Book World, European Journal of Cultural Studies (December 5, 2019), https://www.academia.edu/41195939/Secret_agents_Algorithmic_culture_Goodreads_and_datafication_of_the_contemporary_book_world
Norrick-Rühl, C., Internationaler Buchmarkt. Frankfurt/M.: Bramann 2019.
Piper, A., & So, R. S., Study Shows Books Can Bring Republicans and Democrats Together, The Guardian (October 12, 2016), https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/oct/12/goodreads-study-books-bridge-political-divide-america
Price, L., What we talk when we talk about books. New York: Basic Books 2019.
QuantCast, Understanding Digital Audience Measurement, https://www.quantcast.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/understanding-digital-audience-measurement-white-paper-2.6.19.pdf.
Porter, J.D., Popularity/Prestige, Stanford Literary Lab Pamphlet 17 (2018), https://litlab.stanford.edu/LiteraryLabPamphlet17.pdf.
Stanfill, M., Exploiting Fandom: How the Media Industry Seeks to Manipulate Fans. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2019.
Vadde, A., Amateur Creativity: Contemporary Literature and the Digital Publishing Scene, New Literary History 48, no. 1 (2017): 27–51, https://dukespace.lib.duke.edu/dspace/bitstream/handle/10161/14231/Vadde%20AmCre%20Pub.pdf?sequence=1.
Walsh, M., & Antoniak, M., The Goodreads “Classics”. Journal of Cultural Analytics (April 20, 2021), https://culturalanalytics.org/article/22221-the-goodreads-classics-a-computational-study-of-readers-amazon-and-crowdsourced-amateur-criticism.
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