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