Reading bestsellers: recommendation culture and the multimodal reader

Readers are essential agents in the production of bestsellers but bestsellers are not essential to readers' leisure pursuits. The starting point in this work is readers' opinions about and their uses of bestselling fiction in English. Readers' relationships with bestsellers bring into...

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Main Authors: Fuller, Danielle (Author), Rehberg Sedo, DeNel 1965- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, United Kingdom Cambridge University Press 2023
Series:Cambridge elements
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Summary:Readers are essential agents in the production of bestsellers but bestsellers are not essential to readers' leisure pursuits. The starting point in this work is readers' opinions about and their uses of bestselling fiction in English. Readers' relationships with bestsellers bring into view their practices of book selection, and their navigation of book recommendation culture. Based on three years of original research (2019-2021), including a quantitative survey with readers, interviews with social media influencers, and qualitative work with international Gen Z readers in a private Instagram chat space, the authors highlight three core actions contemporary multimodal readers make - choosing, connecting, and responding - in a transmedia era where on- and offline media practices co-exist
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (92 Seiten) Illustrationen
ISBN:9781108891042
DOI:10.1017/9781108891042

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