Today, consumers must constantly adapt to new forms of media technology and content. While the majority of mass mediated technology has already undergone digitization, one field that is just beginning to change is book publishing. Through semiotic analysis of ereader ads and participant observations of bookstores, I examine the shift in the way that reading culture is being symbolically constructed in modern consumer culture, especially in relation to technology. I conclude that the reading cultures of print books and ebooks are not mutually exclusive, which is also reflected in the way ebooks are being integrated into modern consumer culture
Libraries and book publishers coevolved during the period of information scarcity, and developed cu...
Libro Electrónicoxii, 242 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.Ted Striphas argues that, although the production and pr...
The changing state of reading and its fate in the digitalised world is one of the core issues in the...
The increasing use of social media along with the rapidly developing digitization of the book has le...
Dalhousie Journal of Interdisciplinary Management Abstract: Print books and ebook devices now co-exi...
The rise of the ebook is raising fundamental questions around the dynamics and habits of reading, an...
Book consumption is no longer only a solitary practice of one person sitting in an armchair with a b...
Literary culture has become a form of popular culture over the last fifteen years thanks to the succ...
The current limitations to the reading practices can probably best be appreci- ated within the cultu...
This chapter explores why books are so popular in today’s society, discussing the idea of ‘reading c...
Online digital delivery technologies are ubiquitous in most media industries. Music is in the midst ...
The advent of digital communication technology has been often been seen as the end of print culture....
The start of the twenty-first century has brought with it a rich variety of ways in which readers ca...
Social practices of using printed books in the digital age are mostly based on the symbolic power of...
Digitalization has changed the preconditions for most media in recent decades, offering a rare oppor...
Libraries and book publishers coevolved during the period of information scarcity, and developed cu...
Libro Electrónicoxii, 242 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.Ted Striphas argues that, although the production and pr...
The changing state of reading and its fate in the digitalised world is one of the core issues in the...
The increasing use of social media along with the rapidly developing digitization of the book has le...
Dalhousie Journal of Interdisciplinary Management Abstract: Print books and ebook devices now co-exi...
The rise of the ebook is raising fundamental questions around the dynamics and habits of reading, an...
Book consumption is no longer only a solitary practice of one person sitting in an armchair with a b...
Literary culture has become a form of popular culture over the last fifteen years thanks to the succ...
The current limitations to the reading practices can probably best be appreci- ated within the cultu...
This chapter explores why books are so popular in today’s society, discussing the idea of ‘reading c...
Online digital delivery technologies are ubiquitous in most media industries. Music is in the midst ...
The advent of digital communication technology has been often been seen as the end of print culture....
The start of the twenty-first century has brought with it a rich variety of ways in which readers ca...
Social practices of using printed books in the digital age are mostly based on the symbolic power of...
Digitalization has changed the preconditions for most media in recent decades, offering a rare oppor...
Libraries and book publishers coevolved during the period of information scarcity, and developed cu...
Libro Electrónicoxii, 242 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.Ted Striphas argues that, although the production and pr...
The changing state of reading and its fate in the digitalised world is one of the core issues in the...