Comments on: Introduction http://futureofthebook.org/social-reading Bob Stein, Institute for the Future of the Book Fri, 07 Jan 2011 21:22:22 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Reading in the Digital Age, or, Reading How We’ve Always Read | Booksquare http://futureofthebook.org/social-reading/introduction/#comment-83 Reading in the Digital Age, or, Reading How We’ve Always Read | Booksquare Tue, 30 Nov 2010 21:44:06 +0000 http://futureofthebook.org/social-reading/#comment-83 [...] making accommodation for synchronous and asynchronous discussion. Bob Stein discussed this in his Taxonomy of Social Reading, and I think he’d agree it’s just a beginning. The former would be useful for book [...] [...] making accommodation for synchronous and asynchronous discussion. Bob Stein discussed this in his Taxonomy of Social Reading, and I think he’d agree it’s just a beginning. The former would be useful for book [...]

]]> By: Bob Stein http://futureofthebook.org/social-reading/introduction/#comment-77 Bob Stein Thu, 18 Nov 2010 20:12:21 +0000 http://futureofthebook.org/social-reading/#comment-77 excellent point Bryan;  right in line with the <a href="../general-comments/" rel="nofollow">general comment </a>i made last week about the relationship of a social close reading with the broader discussion taking place on the web. excellent point Bryan;  right in line with the general comment i made last week about the relationship of a social close reading with the broader discussion taking place on the web.

]]> By: Bryan Alexander http://futureofthebook.org/social-reading/introduction/#comment-75 Bryan Alexander Mon, 15 Nov 2010 17:53:30 +0000 http://futureofthebook.org/social-reading/#comment-75 All of these examples are based on handheld devices, or services anchored on handhelds (Kindle).  I wonder if this intro would function differently if it referenced the category 2 online networks (Goodreads, Amazon reviews).  That might foreground the Web, rather than apps and non-Web services. All of these examples are based on handheld devices, or services anchored on handhelds (Kindle).  I wonder if this intro would function differently if it referenced the category 2 online networks (Goodreads, Amazon reviews).  That might foreground the Web, rather than apps and non-Web services.

]]> By: Ray Kohn http://futureofthebook.org/social-reading/introduction/#comment-71 Ray Kohn Fri, 12 Nov 2010 14:38:47 +0000 http://futureofthebook.org/social-reading/#comment-71 Solo reading has not been the sole mode of text consumption in the past. The 2 other common modes have been: a) Instruction. This is where a single text is held in common by a group who normally are trying to learn it together; b) Debate springboard. This is where people agree to read a text (either alone or, more often, together) in order to discuss issues arising from the text. Perhaps we can learn from the histories of these experiences what we might expect from the new networked opportunities of the 21st century? It seems to me that where Instruction is the mode, the networked formulation acts as a magnifier of those tendencies already implicit in the old mode. The most notorious example of this is where extremist literature is propagated through the Internet. Where debate springboard is the mode, we have the burgeoning market of academic discourse. However, previously the debate springboard has also been the communication infrastructure within which new social movements have been born (eg the 19th and 20th century European labour movement). As the social aspect of reading moves to the foreground, will we see an equivalent social movement growing from within it? Or will it be taken over by those with an Instructive agenda? Solo reading has not been the sole mode of text consumption in the past. The 2 other common modes have been: a) Instruction. This is where a single text is held in common by a group who normally are trying to learn it together; b) Debate springboard. This is where people agree to read a text (either alone or, more often, together) in order to discuss issues arising from the text. Perhaps we can learn from the histories of these experiences what we might expect from the new networked opportunities of the 21st century?

It seems to me that where Instruction is the mode, the networked formulation acts as a magnifier of those tendencies already implicit in the old mode. The most notorious example of this is where extremist literature is propagated through the Internet. Where debate springboard is the mode, we have the burgeoning market of academic discourse. However, previously the debate springboard has also been the communication infrastructure within which new social movements have been born (eg the 19th and 20th century European labour movement).
As the social aspect of reading moves to the foreground, will we see an equivalent social movement growing from within it? Or will it be taken over by those with an Instructive agenda?

]]> By: Bob Stein http://futureofthebook.org/social-reading/introduction/#comment-61 Bob Stein Fri, 29 Oct 2010 18:01:45 +0000 http://futureofthebook.org/social-reading/#comment-61 corrected. thank you. corrected. thank you.

]]> By: Jennifer Stevenson http://futureofthebook.org/social-reading/introduction/#comment-55 Jennifer Stevenson Thu, 28 Oct 2010 17:49:58 +0000 http://futureofthebook.org/social-reading/#comment-55 I would suggest that the text-based conversation is the most robust of all.  We're all seeking a single lingua franca, one common playground.  Note that English-language fiction is the most-often pirated around the globe. While games and images can explode in the  mind with tremendous enlightening force, they still need to be processed by endless verbal analysis. I would suggest that the text-based conversation is the most robust of all.  We’re all seeking a single lingua franca, one common playground.  Note that English-language fiction is the most-often pirated around the globe. While games and images can explode in the  mind with tremendous enlightening force, they still need to be processed by endless verbal analysis.

]]> By: Jennifer Stevenson http://futureofthebook.org/social-reading/introduction/#comment-54 Jennifer Stevenson Thu, 28 Oct 2010 17:45:58 +0000 http://futureofthebook.org/social-reading/#comment-54 I think you mean "rendering."  This is dense, interesting stuff, but it helps if you get simple English & punctuation issues right. I think you mean “rendering.”  This is dense, interesting stuff, but it helps if you get simple English & punctuation issues right.

]]> By: Comment Press « Suneel K Jethani http://futureofthebook.org/social-reading/introduction/#comment-46 Comment Press « Suneel K Jethani Sun, 24 Oct 2010 23:38:30 +0000 http://futureofthebook.org/social-reading/#comment-46 [...] on blog posts paragraph by paragraph and displays them in the margin. check out Bob Stein’s Proposing a Taxonomy of Social Reading to see how it works. The great thing about this feature is that it may encourage more in-depth and [...] [...] on blog posts paragraph by paragraph and displays them in the margin. check out Bob Stein’s Proposing a Taxonomy of Social Reading to see how it works. The great thing about this feature is that it may encourage more in-depth and [...]

]]> By: Matt Bernius http://futureofthebook.org/social-reading/introduction/#comment-37 Matt Bernius Sun, 24 Oct 2010 17:03:45 +0000 http://futureofthebook.org/social-reading/#comment-37 A note here. You are quite correct to point to YouTube and WoW in terms of commenting. Facebook would be another site to look at for "event/announcement" based commenting. That said, it's important to not flatten all of this into the same mode/genre of social writing. The comments that follow videos are significantly different than the annotation to video (and even within annotation, we can see different forms/intents of the annotation). Likewise, WoW represents a very specific form of synchronous communication within bounded groups of players -- something very different than the global comments on videos on YouTube. I realize that you're not specifically flattening all of them into the same category here... just wanted to note the boundaries from the beginning. A note here. You are quite correct to point to YouTube and WoW in terms of commenting. Facebook would be another site to look at for “event/announcement” based commenting.
That said, it’s important to not flatten all of this into the same mode/genre of social writing. The comments that follow videos are significantly different than the annotation to video (and even within annotation, we can see different forms/intents of the annotation). Likewise, WoW represents a very specific form of synchronous communication within bounded groups of players — something very different than the global comments on videos on YouTube.
I realize that you’re not specifically flattening all of them into the same category here… just wanted to note the boundaries from the beginning.

]]> By: Matt Bernius http://futureofthebook.org/social-reading/introduction/#comment-36 Matt Bernius Sun, 24 Oct 2010 16:58:16 +0000 http://futureofthebook.org/social-reading/#comment-36 A seminal account/theorization of social reading can be found in Benedict Anderson's "Imagined Communities" which explicitly links communal reading activities with the development of the modern nation state. A seminal account/theorization of social reading can be found in Benedict Anderson’s “Imagined Communities” which explicitly links communal reading activities with the development of the modern nation state.

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