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2014 VanArsdel Prize Essay: W. T. Stead and Participatory Reader Networks
- Victorian Periodicals Review
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Volume 48, Number 1, Spring 2015
- pp. 15-41
- 10.1353/vpr.2015.0000
- Article
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W. T. Stead’s contribution to the development of reader engagement in the New Journalism was extensive and innovative. In this essay, I argue that Stead’s participatory reader networks in the Link and the Review of Reviews were the culmination of Stead’s career-long interest in media-based community engagement projects. Rather than viewing Stead’s journalism through the narrow lens of a single publication or journalistic campaign, I consider how his participatory reader networks were refined and shaped over the course of many years and within the pages of multiple periodicals.