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Books and Social Media: How the Digital Age Is Shaping the Printed Word

Books and Social Media: How the Digital Age Is Shaping the Printed Word

Johnson, Miriam J.

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Literary CriticismBusiness of WritingGeneral Reference

ISBN10: 1032001356
ISBN13: 9781032001357
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Jul 30 2021
Pages: 164
Weight: 0.45
Height: 0.50 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.20
Language: English

Social media and digital technologies are transforming what and how we read. Books and Social Media considers the way in which readers and writers come together in digital communities to discover and create new works of fiction.

This new way of engaging with fiction stretches the boundaries of what has been considered a book in the past by moving beyond the physical or even digitally bound object to the consideration of content, containers, and the ability to share. Using empirical data and up-to-date research methods, Miriam Johnson introduces the ways in which digitally social platforms give rise to a new type of citizen author who chooses to sidestep the industry's gatekeepers and share their works directly with interested readers on social platforms. Gender and genre, especially, play a key role in developing the communities in which these authors write. The use of surveys, interviews, and data mining brings to the fore issues of gender, genre, community, and power, which highlight the push and pull between these writers and the industry.

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