I'm delighted to be invited to participate in this project from afar - a small town in Minnesota, USA, to be all geocoordinated about it. I'm just starting a year-long project to explore digital reading networks, so this site feels like home. But I am putting the stress in a slightly different place than some of the contributors here. I'm not looking at reading digitally as … [Read more...] about Digital Networks and Reading
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The act of reading
One of the topics of this blog is ‘the act of reading in a digital age’. I would like to discuss that in a very literal way by asking where and how do you like to read? When people argue about whether or not digital reading is a good idea, they often complain that you cannot read e-books in the bath. Well, of course you can, although I admit I've never tried. But the question … [Read more...] about The act of reading
Big data and the study of reading
By Daniel Allington and Andrew Salway We’re really looking forward to running the workshop on big data and digital reading on 6 March 2014. Here is your required reading... just kidding, but we’ve selected two discussion pieces that we think could be interesting to talk about, so if you could have a look at them ahead of the workshop and post any initial thoughts below, … [Read more...] about Big data and the study of reading
Comic Books, Libraries and Challenges in the Digital Age
This is my second post as resident curator during February 2014 of the Digital Reading Network blog, covering the topic of "digital comics". "A book is a non-periodical printed publication of at least 49 pages, exclusive of the cover pages, published in the country and made available to the public." -UNESCO, 19 November 1964 “My work is dedicated to the proposition that … [Read more...] about Comic Books, Libraries and Challenges in the Digital Age
Digital Comics
This month I will be participating in this blog by posting some brief articles around the general topic of "digital comics". It is my intention to use this month's topic to post on different online platforms that will link back to this blog, and hence try to expand the "network" part of the project by linking back to this blog and reciprocally to link to the other resources. … [Read more...] about Digital Comics