How has the Internet changed literary culture? 2nd Place, N.
Katherine Hayles Award for Criticism of Electronic Literature by
The Electronic Literature Organization Reports of the book's death
have been greatly exaggerated. Books are flourishing in the
Internet era-widely discussed and reviewed in online readers'
forums and publicized through book trailers and author blog tours.
But over the past twenty-five years, digital media platforms have
undeniably transformed book culture. Since Amazon's founding in
1994, the whole way in which books are created, marketed,
publicized, sold, reviewed, showcased, consumed, and commented upon
has changed dramatically. The digital literary sphere is no mere
appendage to the world of print-it is where literary reputations
are made, movements are born, and readers passionately engage with
their favorite works and authors. In The Digital Literary Sphere,
Simone Murray considers the contemporary book world from multiple
viewpoints. By examining reader engagement with the online personas
of Margaret Atwood, John Green, Gary Shteyngart, David Foster
Wallace, Karl Ove Knausgaard, and even Jonathan Franzen, among
others, Murray reveals the dynamic interrelationship of print and
digital technologies. Drawing on approaches from literary studies,
media and cultural studies, book history, cultural policy, and the
digital humanities, this book asks: What is the significance of
authors communicating directly to readers via social media? How
does digital media reframe the "live" author-reader encounter? And
does the growing army of reader-reviewers signal an overdue
democratizing of literary culture or the atomizing of cultural
authority? In exploring these questions, The Digital Literary
Sphere takes stock of epochal changes in the book industry while
probing books' and digital media's complex contemporary
coexistence.
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