Draft Programme – Digital Reading Symposium.
9.30-10.00 Arrival, teas and coffees and Welcome (Bronwen Thomas and Julia Round, University of Bournemouth).
10.00-11.30 Ereaders and Ereading
Anne Mangen (University of Stavanger, Norway) Reading on Paper and
Screens: Empirical Research.
Simon Rowberry (University of Winchester, UK). Used Ebooks.
Torsten Pettersson (University of Uppsala, Sweden). Why Do Computer-
Literate Young Swedes Reject the Ebook as a Medium for Reading
Fiction?
11.30-12.30 Keynote and Discussion. Bob Stein. SocialBook.
12.30-1.15 Lunch and Posters/Exhibitions
1.15-2.45 Parallel Workshops/Breakouts
Anouk Lang (University of Strathclyde). Using the Twitter API to Access
Data About Books and Reading.
Sue Thomas (Visiting Fellow, Bournemouth University). Digital Wellbeing.
2.45-3.45 Digitising Multimodal Texts
Beth Williamson (University of the Arts, London). Artists’ Books From
Page Space to E-Space: Digital Dialogues in Making and Reading.
Dan Goodbrey (University of Hertfordshire). The Sound of Digital
Comics.
3.45-4.00 Coffee
4.00– 5.00 Online Reading Groups
Julia Round and Bronwen Thomas (University of Bournemouth).
Moderating Reading and Readers Online.
Marianne Martens (Kent State University, USA). Poaching Readers’
Responses: Young People, Online Book-related Sites, and the Law.
5.00 – 6.00 Roundtable (What is Social Reading?)
Danielle Fuller (University of Birmingham); Katie Halsey (University of
Stirling); Simon Frost (University of Bournemouth); Sara Whiteley
(University of Sheffield); DeNel Rehberg Sedo (Mount Saint Vincent
University, Nova Scotia, Canada)
6.00 Closing Remarks