Many congratulations to Anouk Lang, one of our network members, who has recently been awarded funding from the AHRC. The award is for Research Development as part of the AHRC's recently launched Cultural Value Project, and the project gets underway in January 2014. The project will use digital tools and methods to analyse and evaluate literary engagement in online contexts. … [Read more...] about New AHRC funded project on Literary Engagement in Online Contexts
Reviews of Reading Beyond the Book
Network members, Danielle Fuller and DeNel Rehberg Sedo, are excited about reading the first published review of their full-length monograph, Reading Beyond the Book: The Social Practices of Contemporary Literary Culture, which was published this spring in Routledge’s Research Series in Media and Cultural Studies. A university librarian, investigator of online reading … [Read more...] about Reviews of Reading Beyond the Book
Romancing the Internet by Jin Feng out now!
Network member Jin Feng's book on Chinese popular romance has just been published (http://www.brill.com/products/book/romancing-internet). Jin's book first provides a brief genealogy of Chinese Web literature and Chinese popular romance, and then investigates how large socio-cultural forces have shaped new writing and reading practices and created new subgenres of popular … [Read more...] about Romancing the Internet by Jin Feng out now!
Launching the Digital Reading Network
We’re pleased to announce that the network is now up and running. You can find out more about the network and those involved on this website and we will be updating the site regularly with news of our upcoming events and activities. We hope that the website will prove a valuable resource for anyone interested in exploring the impact of digitisation on reading, with … [Read more...] about Launching the Digital Reading Network