I've been a little bit swamped this week, with a test and a research paper proposal filling up my schedule yesterday.
With that in mind, I'm looking to have my second chapter cover a book other than Slaughterhouse Five. Namely, the graphic novel called Watchmen by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons. It's in the Time Magazine's top 100 novels of all time, so you know it's good.
BOOK PART
How we read, probably.
How we read, probably.
CHAPTER TITLE
"It's Us. Only Us": The Movement of Reading from a Solitary Hobby to a Social Activity
TWEETHIS
In the past, reading has been a largely solitary hobby for many people. With the advent of sites like Goodreads, reading can now connect a reader to others around the world.
KEYWORDS
Watchmen, Social Networking, Goodreads, Amazon, Connection
TOPICAL IMAGE
CONTENT PARAMETERS
DIGILITERARY VIA AMAZON-KINDLE-GOODREADS CONNECTION
Goodreads social networking capabilities.
LITERARY WORK
Watchmen
TRADITIONAL REFERENCES - (General Literary, Scholarly)
Hughes, Jamie "Who Watches the Watchmen: Ideology and 'Real World' Superheroes"
(http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1540-5931.2006.00278.x/abstract)
SOCIAL REFERENCES (current conversations, social media, interviews)
Watchmen Goodreads review page.
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/472331.Watchmen
CONTENT LAYOUT
I think that in all that we're talking about, we've somewhat glanced over the movement of reading from being something that is more of a solitary activity to one that is becoming inherently social, especially through the medium of Goodreads.
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