...Naomi S. Baron; Anne Mangen Abstract Long-form reading of literary and non-literary texts is historically an essential component of education. However, in many schooling contexts, the amount of long-form reading is diminishing. Are digital technologies augmenting this trend...

...Mats Jansson Digital technologies entail new possibilities and challenges for the production and reception of ekphrasis. The ekphrastic poet is given the opportunity not only to write a poem “describing” a work of art, but to create a multimedial artwork involving several senses. In consequence...

... effectively mitigates Mark B. Hansen’s subordination of technology to the body in his highly influential work on immersion and embodiment — key concepts in much recent theorizing on ekphrasis, especially in the field of neuroaesthetics (see Starr 2013). Hansen censures digital technology’s privileging...

...Aaron Rosen; Michael Takeo Magruder Prophetic Visions, Digital Horizons: An Interview with Michael Takeo Magruder Aaron Rosen Wesley Theological Seminary Michael Takeo Magruder Artist Digital technology has become a key part of how many people engage with the Bible today, whether searching...

...). Digital infraculture can thus be described as environmental (see Hörl 2018 ), a term implying not only the ubiquitous presence of digital media in contemporary society, but also the ways in which virtually every aspect of human experience is now entangled in and conditioned by digital technologies...

... to the definition of contemporary lit- erary fiction. Specifically, I am referring to the major role played by the World Wide Web, digital technology, and social media. Post-postmodernism happens in a period of media convergence or of “convergence culture,” as Henry Jenkins (2006) called it, a period...

... to embrace new technologies at the expense of the printed word.” Somewhat less alarmist is Hayles's ( 2007 : 187) argument that the current networked and digitized mediascape has caused a broad shift in cognitive styles from the “deep attention” associated with traditional print culture to the distracted...

...Brian Richardson “You” is the most grammatically malleable pronoun in English and can give rise to semantic and referential ambiguities that lend themselves to narrative experimentation. While second-person narration is relatively uncommon in fiction, it is ubiquitous in digital fiction...

... explosion of digital storage and surveillance devices. At the same time, the article devotes less attention to these technological developments in themselves than to the consequences they have for the form of Lerner’s and Knausgaard’s novels and for the implied aesthetics and ethics that underlie...

... of a reading experience informed by pervasive and ubiquitous computing practices. In doing so, it examines the peripheries of this form of storytelling and takes a literary approach to understanding emerging digital technologies, drawing on the work of Hayles ( 2005 ), who recognizes that digital reading...

... in the past thirty years in textual studies and by literary scholars (Bolter 1991 ; Striphas 2009 ; Svedjedal 2000 ; Hjarvard and Helles 2015 ). National and international organizations have mapped the impact of digital technologies on reading habits and literacy. 2 Additionally, digitization has...

... of the twenty-first century.This interpretation not only ignores the idiosyn- cratic features of each medium, it also assumes rather presumptuously that what digital technology adds to existing media is necessarily a dimension that enhances narrativity. The other interpretation, the one that I endorse, says...

... of digital technology, the intermedia aesthetics of hypertext literature, and the overwhelming success of e-books show that considering new media as a part of the literary canon is an immediate necessity. While the German pragmatist approach is neither fully developed nor entirely coherent, I hope...

... whether, in the age of the “death of the novel,” we could make similar claims about both the nature of subjectivity and the power of the novel. In this issue Marta Figler- owicz argues that the promise of “total recall” of our memories enabled by social media and new digital technology has changed our...

...; the increasing supremacy of digital technologies; the rising geopolitical importance of the BRICS nations; the fourth wave of terrorism, Iraq war, decline of US hegemony, and Arab Spring; the revival of nationalist populism; a growing awareness of climate change; and several financial crises (Van den Akker...

... Katie's activity as a vlogger and her history as a book lover (she later explains that “like many bookish people” she feels apprehensive both about expressing herself on video and about having to deal with technology). The video suggests the existence of two media spheres, centered on digital media...

... digital artist Michael Takeo Magruder conducted by art historian Aaron Rosen. Surveying several of Magruder s digital art installations of the last decade and from around the globe, the discussion teases out the different ways in which the artist has used the ostensibly secular world of digital technology...

... technology in inclusive universal designs for learning. She is currently leading a national interdisciplinary research project on reading success for dyslexic children. Birgitte Stougaard Pedersen is associate professor in aesthetics and culture at Aarhus University. She is editor of the international...

...,” by Brenda Silver, begins by acknowledging that “in many ways there does not yet exist a defined field that would contain a ‘digital’ version of popular fiction” (196). Silver then proceeds to describe three types of artifacts, or new fictional forms, related to developments in digital technology: text...

...,” by Brenda Silver, begins by acknowledging that “in many ways there does not yet exist a defined field that would contain a ‘digital’ version of popular fiction” (196). Silver then proceeds to describe three types of artifacts, or new fictional forms, related to developments in digital technology: text...