Reading Today

New technologies are changing our reading habits. Laptops, e-readers, tablets and other handheld devices supply new platforms for reading, and we must learn to manage them by scrolling, clicking or tapping. Reading Today places reading in current literary and cultural contexts in order to analyse ho...

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Other Authors: Pyrhönen, Heta (Editor), Kantola, Janna (Editor)
Format: eBook
Published: UCL Press 2018
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