Thanks very much for organizing this week and getting us off to such a great start with this post, Laurel. I'm particularly compelled by your idea that hoaxes--historic or contemporary--are not merely about tricking us into believing something false, ...
Laurel et al: My students have had troubles with the interface recognizing/accepting their registration requests, so I’m posting these comments (and I may have more), on their behalf. I’m sure they’d love to hear back from you, even though they weren’t ab ...
Thanks so much for your post, Kathleen. I’ve loved this video since the first time I saw it, in large part because of the many features you point out regarding this ebook device. However, what I love even more about the video, and would like to add to the ...
Thanks Hollis and Kathryn for your insights. I'm particularly interested in the idea that ebooks might enable a type of inconspicuous consumption, allowing consumers to continue to participate in the "more is better" philosophy of contempor ...
I love the questions you pose for so many reasons, Lisa, and I think it’s spot-on to note how, as the venues where a book’s content might be retrieved multiply, so do the ontologies of the book itself. However, what really sticks with me from your post is ...
Ted, Great post! I fully agree that mass-culture warrants historicization and find the case-study in your book a particularly intriguing one. However, as your test case succeeds in exposing the particularities of mass culture through a lens of localizatio ...
Great post, Hollis. The issues you raise about platforms and promotion make me think of a recent Slate article on book trailers. Though the article's leading question ("Do books really need Hollywood-style trailers?") is somewhat pedantic, ...
Thanks for your comments, Ted, as well as pointing toward the fact I was potentially implying copyright may only be a reader's concern. (As I hope my hyperlink demonstrated, I was thinking, in particular, of the controversy regarding Orwell's te ...
Quickly: Ted, I 100% agree that form matters greatly in the ways that readers derive value from texts as well as signal that value to others (I'm actually writing my dissertation on how book collectors value material books, which is an arena where fo ...
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Hoaxes and Truth
Student Responses
I like to believe probable!
(In)conspicuous Consumption
Books as Zombies
When Superstores Collide
So are book trailers the answer?
Levelling or polarizing?
But hasn't form always mattered?
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