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Unpacking the Universal Library: Digital Reading and the Recirculation of Economic Value
- Pedagogy
- Duke University Press
- Volume 16, Issue 1, January 2016
- pp. 137-152
- Article
- Additional Information
Recent arguments against today’s digital reading practices rely on contradictory implicit claims: that digital technologies harm the way we read, and that reading is a set of monolithic and unchanging practices. Both claims are mistaken. Digital reading practices illuminate the diverse forms of value in the labor and capital associated with textual work.