(Cross-posted from Barbara Fister's Place) Twitter is kind of hard to explain to those who don’t use it regularly. Originally described as a “micro-blogging platform,” it’s often dismissed as a trivial pursuit. How can you possibly say anything meaningful in 140 characters? Why do I care what somebody ate for breakfast? How does this thing even work? What a useless … [Read more...] about Sharing Reading in 140 Characters
Reading as/and Performance
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