From Codex to Hypertext: Reading at the Turn of the Twenty-first Century

Contents

[ v ] CONTENTS Acknowledgments vii INTRODUCTION Transforming Reading Anouk Lang 1 Part I COMMUNITIES AND PRACTICES 1. ZINES THEN AND NOW What Are They? What Do You Do With Them? How Do They Work? Janice Radway 27 2. HAVE MOUSE, WILL TRAVEL Consuming and Creating Chinese Popular Literature on the Web Jin Feng 48 3. ONLINE LITERARY COMMUNITIES A Case Study of LibraryThing Julian Pinder 68 4. BUILDING A NATIONAL CULTURE OF READING IN THE “NEW” SOUTH AFRICA Molly Abel Travis 88 5. LITERARY TASTE AND LIST CULTURE IN A TIME OF “ENDLESS CHOICE” David Wright 108 [ vi ] CONTENTS 6. “KEEPIN’ IT REAL” Incarcerated Women’s Readings of African American Urban Fiction Megan Sweeney 124 7. PRODUCING MEANING THROUGH INTERACTION Book Groups and the Social Context of Reading Joan Bessman Taylor 142 8. GENRE IN THE MARKETPLACE The Scene of Bookselling in Canada Julie Rak 159 Part ii METHODS 9. NEW LITERARY CULTURES Mapping the Digital Networks of Toni Morrison Ed Finn 177 10. CONFOUNDING THE LITERARY Temporal Problems in Hypertext David S. Miall 203 11. READING THE READING EXPERIENCE An Ethnomethodological Approach to “Booktalk” Daniel Allington and Bethan Benwell 217 12. MIXING IT UP Using Mixed Methods Research to Investigate Contemporary Cultures of Reading Danielle Fuller and DeNel Rehberg Sedo 234 About the Contributors 253 Index 255 ...