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Networked Readers: A Portrait of Post-Digital Book Culture
Networked Readers: A Portrait of Post-Digital Book Culture
Networked Readers: A Portrait of Post-Digital Book Culture

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자료유형  
 학위논문 서양
최종처리일시  
20260202105230
ISBN  
9798291567210
DDC  
800
저자명  
Wilson-Berg, Rachel.
서명/저자  
Networked Readers: A Portrait of Post-Digital Book Culture
발행사항  
[Sl] : University of Michigan, 2025
발행사항  
Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2025
형태사항  
207 p
주기사항  
Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 87-03, Section: A.
주기사항  
Advisor: Sweeney, Megan L.
학위논문주기  
Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Michigan, 2025.
초록/해제  
요약Networked Readers: A Portrait of Post-Digital Book Culture asks, "What is the role of the book in the present, a moment defined by digital technology?" Drawing on close readings of contemporary fiction and ethnographic research with contemporary readers, this dissertation offers a new narrative of the book and its relationship to internet culture and digital technology. While popular discourse suggests that the book has been dying for decades, perpetually at risk of being replaced by digital media, I argue that authors and readers are using the book, together with digital media, to navigate the pressures of an always-on internet culture and to reimagine our relationships to media and to one another.The first two chapters examine how the internet shapes contemporary subjectivity. Drawing on a qualitative survey and a series of eight interviews that I conducted with members of Bookstagram, a community of readers, authors, and publishers on Instagram, the first chapter explores how some contemporary readers construct a sense of self and develop relationships with other readers through their engagements with Bookstagram. Bookstagram is defined by a tension between users' desire for community and the culture of influencer advertising that is reinforced by Instagram's platform and the publishing industry. This chapter illustrates how social media both supports and stymies literary community. The second chapter builds on my discussion of Bookstagram as I analyze three novels that explore the relationship between technology and self-representation: Sheila Heti's How Should a Person Be?, Patricia Lockwood's No One is Talking About This, and Kate Zambreno's Drifts. I argue that these three novels adopt an auto fictional mode in order to contextualize, understand, and critique social media's culture of self-branding.Chapters 3 and 4 focus on how books may help readers and writers to represent and navigate anxiety and overwhelm caused by the asymmetrical scale of our relationships to information and to ongoing political, economic, and environmental crises. The third chapter puts forth a theory of networked reading. Focusing on Ruth Ozeki's A Tale for the Time Being, Ali Smith's Seasonal Quartet and Valeria Luiselli's Lost Children Archive, I analyze how each novel documents the present as it is unfolding. Furthermore, I show how each author adopts a hyper-citational style that both models and invites readers to track down references for themselves, moving from the pages of the book to a search engine. Networked reading encourages readers to exercise agency over the act of literary meaning-making, embracing the multiplicity and contingency inherent in the act of reading. The fourth chapter examines two experimental texts written in collaboration with AI: Vauhini Vara's "Ghosts" and Lillian-Yvonne Bertram's A Black Story May Contain Sensitive Content. I argue that these texts reveal the underlying logics of large language models (LLMs) and thereby help non-experts to become better readers of this new technology and the texts it generates. Both Vara and Bertram illustrate how the abductive logic of generative AI perpetuates stereotypes and cliches, but they also illustrate the possibility that these models might be put to different purposes. Reading has always been a complex, social, and networked practice, qualities that are amplified by technology today. This dissertation offers a cultural history of present-day book culture, exploring the impact of the post-digital media environment on people's relationship to and ideas about books and reading.
일반주제명  
Literature
일반주제명  
American literature
일반주제명  
Film studies
키워드  
Contemporary book culture
키워드  
Online community
키워드  
Reader studies
키워드  
Comparative media studies
기타저자  
University of Michigan English Language & Literature
기본자료저록  
Dissertations Abstracts International. 87-03A.
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