Modes of Reading

The digitization of the publishing business has provided publishers with new media and new means of distribution, which have in turn created new modes of reading. The impact of the digital revolution on the production and distribution of literature has already been widely discussed, but much less has been written about how current media developments have affected reading and readers. Contributors to this issue offer a multidisciplinary perspective on how the technological, sensorial, cognitive, participatory, and aesthetic aspects of reading have evolved in recent years.

Contributors: Naomi S. Baron, Dorothee Birke, Anne Line Dalsgård, Maria Engberg, Iben Have, Ayoe Quist Henkel, Lutz Koepnick, Karin Kukkonen, Anne Mangen, Sarah Mygind, Birgitte Stougaard Pedersen, Amy Spencer, Mette Steenberg et al., Mette-Marie Zacher Sørensen