CONGRESS CANCELED Medieval/Digital Reading Environments and Practices
Description
Research by both industry and reading specialists into digital reading practices has shifted in the past decade to discussions of how to foster simultaneously personalized reading experiences and social reading opportunities that encourage collaborative engagement, provide new ways of managing and interpreting data, and promote multimodal literacy. This session is based on the belief that mutual insight can be gained by placing these concerns in dialogue with both the medieval reading experience and medievalists’ dealings with the digitized manuscript.
Papers may focus on medieval theories, practices and technologies of reading, modern social engagement with digitized texts and manuscripts, or both. Suggested topics and approaches might include:
- Formation and function of social networks or communities of readers
- Reading practices and literacies: collaborative reading, multimodal reading, distant reading
- Social identities as shaped by shared reading
- Manuscripts and/or digital media designed for social reading
- Digitally created social reading spaces
- Notions of private and public, closed and open texts and media
- Political, legal and ethical ramifications of social reading
CONGRESS CANCELED Medieval/Digital Reading Environments and Practices
Fetzer 1005
Research by both industry and reading specialists into digital reading practices has shifted in the past decade to discussions of how to foster simultaneously personalized reading experiences and social reading opportunities that encourage collaborative engagement, provide new ways of managing and interpreting data, and promote multimodal literacy. This session is based on the belief that mutual insight can be gained by placing these concerns in dialogue with both the medieval reading experience and medievalists’ dealings with the digitized manuscript.
Papers may focus on medieval theories, practices and technologies of reading, modern social engagement with digitized texts and manuscripts, or both. Suggested topics and approaches might include:
- Formation and function of social networks or communities of readers
- Reading practices and literacies: collaborative reading, multimodal reading, distant reading
- Social identities as shaped by shared reading
- Manuscripts and/or digital media designed for social reading
- Digitally created social reading spaces
- Notions of private and public, closed and open texts and media
- Political, legal and ethical ramifications of social reading