Reading Today
by Heta Pyrhönen, Janna Kantola
Publisher: UCL Press 2018
ISBN-13: 9781787351950
Number of pages: 213
Description:
New technologies are changing our reading habits. Laptops, e-readers, tablets and other handheld devices supply new platforms for reading, and we must learn to manage them by scrolling, clicking or tapping. Reading Today places reading in current literary and cultural contexts in order to analyse how these contexts challenge our conceptions of who reads, what reading is, how we read, where we read, and for what purposes -- and then responds to the questions this analysis raises.
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