Social Reading e Social Book Networks
Una prima mappa delle pratiche di lettura in rete
Social Reading and Social Book Networks
An Early Map of Reading Practices in the Net
Abstract [ita]
I libri e la lettura nel corso del tempo sono stati più volte oggetto di trasformazione tecnologica e simbolica e, ad ogni mutamento, si sono accompagnate inevitabilmente correnti a favore o contrarie al cambiamento in atto. Lo sviluppo tecnologico digitale, unito all’avvento di Internet e del Web 2.0 hanno rivoluzionato profondamente i sistemi di comunicazione, così i supporti del testo e le pratiche di lettura hanno cominciato a modificarsi e, per quanto oggi continuino a mantenere legami profondi con i modelli tradizionali, il processo non si può ancora dire concluso.
In questo contesto ho cercato di analizzare come i nuovi supporti ed ambienti di lettura - realizzati sulla base di modelli derivati dai social network più diffusi – contribuiscano a fondare nuove pratiche di lettura denominate “social reading”, così come nuovi luoghi e reti di discussione intorno al libro che possono invece essere indicati come “social book networks”.
Abstract [eng]
Books and reading had been object of technological and symbolic changing a few times over time, and every modification had been inevitably accompanied by current in favour or against the change in place. Digital technology development, accompanied by the advent of the Internet and Web, had deeply revolutionised all the communication systems, therefore texts supports and different reading practices beginning to modify as well and, even if they keep unchanged certain traditional features, the process can’t be say finished at all. In this context I try to study how new supports and reading environments – shaped on social networks – contributed to create new reading practices named “social reading” and new discussion networks around book which can be indicated as “social book networks”.
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