Thursday, February 26, 2015

"Becoming Digiliterary" - Working Table of Contents

We can't waste a moment in putting together our ebook about how Kindle, Amazon, and Goodreads are influencing literacy and literary study today. So, though our chapters are in their earliest stages, we should still put together a working table of contents. I've begun this by devising working titles based on several of my students' recent blog posts, and by adding a working "tweethis," or core shareable claim, based on these same posts. In some cases, I've drafted multiple potential chapters because students have discussed separate viable ideas.

I leave it to my students to complete this task in their own follow-up posts. Specifically, I want them to do three things:

  1. Make your own working title and "tweethis" for your topics (as I did for several of you already, below). This will mean developing/focusing some of your ideas. Shoot for more than one title/tweethis, as it is likely each of us will be writing multiple chapters.
  2. Review each other's recent posts, drawing on whatever state that other students' ideas are in, and make your own working table of contents. The catch: this needs to have some kind of order or rationale to it. That can be done through a short prefatory paragraph, or by using headings to group various topics. See the table of contents of Writing About Literature in the Digital Age for a model. 
  3. Remark on what is missing. What are one or two key / core topics or concepts from our explorations of Kindle, Goodreads, and Amazon about which none in our group has yet proposed a possible chapter?

Catch the start of my prospective table of contents below:



Becoming Digiliterary: Kindle, Amazon, and Goodreads as Emerging Platforms for Literary Study

Introduction


  • Leah Smartt, Removing Prejudice to Classic Literature: Reconsumption on Goodreads and Amazon
    The new accessibility to literary classics within social reading networks like Goodreads influences readers to reread and reconsider titles they'd disliked.
  • Nathan Scovill, Callous and Kind with Books Online
    Online anonymity and alternate identities allow readers to become more callous or more kind as they review and discuss literary texts.
  • Nathan Scovill, "So it Goes": Disconnecting Readers and Books on Online Platforms
    The lack of a physical relationship with books read electronically changes readers' relationships with literature.
  • Nathan Scovill, "Slaughterhouse Mind": Reading Out of Order in the Digital Age
    Digital media cause us to experience stories from literature out of order, and that's okay.
  • Lauren Sullivan, Reconstructing Society through the Long Tail of Digital Books
    The broadened availability of literary works through ebook platforms makes possible a revitalizing of society.
  • Lauren Sullivan, Reading Laid Bare: The Intimacy of ebooks
    The rise of ebooks exposes the need for human connection even as it closes off true connection among people.
  • Lauren Sullivan, The Isolated Reader
    Electronic reading deepens the joys and the isolation of readers
  • Saren Bennett, Readers at Home in a New Land of Literary Study
    It's hard to make our presence of worth in online reading platforms, but it's possible to feel at home in a new world.
  • Saren Bennett, Reader Reviews and a Multitude of Views
    Reader reviews function differently on different ebook platforms.




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