Reading in the digital archive

Towheed, Shafquat (2010). Reading in the digital archive. Journal of Victorian Culture, 15(1) pp. 139–143.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/13555501003607776

Abstract

This article provides an overview of recent developments in digitizing nineteenth-century printed and archived material, and argues that while mass digitisation offers incredible opportunities for research and scholarship, it also increases the considerable distance between nineteenth-century reading practices and our own. Digitized content implicitly privileges certain types of reading practice and use which the extant printed material does not.

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• Item ORO ID
• 19993
• Item Type
• Journal Item
• ISSN
• 1355-5502
• Keywords
• history of reading; digitization; nineteenth-century readers; nineteenth-century newspapers; material archives; Internet Archive; Google Books; e-reading; 19th Century British Library Newspapers Online
• Academic Unit or School
• Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) > Arts and Humanities > English & Creative Writing
  Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) > Arts and Humanities
  Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS)
• Research Group
• History of Books and Reading (HOBAR)
• Copyright Holders
• © 2010 Leeds Trinity and All Saints College
• Depositing User
• Shafquat Towheed