My assigned topic is “Reading As/And Performance”, and I’m approaching it through the material I am currently gathering for my AHRC project, Developing methods for analysing and evaluating literary engagement in digital contexts. This project uses data from social media to consider individuals’ relationships to books and reading, and so an integral part of the research involves … [Read more...] about Reading as/and Performance
computational methods
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