Digital Audiobooks : New Media, Users, and Experiences.
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TextSeries: Publisher: Oxford : Taylor & Francis Group, 2015Copyright date: ©2016Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (176 pages)Content type: - text
- computer
- online resource
- 9781315743080
- 028
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Figures and Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- 1 The Digital Audiobook in Between -- PART I: Aesthetics, Sound, Senses -- 2 Modes of Reading as Listening -- 3 Intersensorial Situations -- PART II: Affordance and Voice -- 4 Affordances of the Digital Audiobook -- 5 The Performing Voice of the Audiobook -- PART III: Usage and Mediatization -- 6 Empirical Notions of Audiobook Usage and Users -- 7 The Audiobook in a Mediatized Soundscape -- 8 The Digital Audiobook Revisited -- Index.
This book engages with the digital form of audiobooks, framing audiobook listening as both a remediation of literature and an everyday activity that creates new reading experiences that can be compared to listening to music or the radio.
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