Digital Audiobooks
New Media, Users, and Experiences
Nonfiction, Reference & Language, Language Arts, Writing & Publishing, Publishing, Social & Cultural Studies, Social Science
| Author: | Iben Have, Birgitte Stougaard Pedersen | ISBN: | 9781317588061 |
| Publisher: | Taylor and Francis | Publication: | August 11, 2015 |
| Imprint: | Routledge | Language: | English |
| Author: | Iben Have, Birgitte Stougaard Pedersen |
| ISBN: | 9781317588061 |
| Publisher: | Taylor and Francis |
| Publication: | August 11, 2015 |
| Imprint: | Routledge |
| Language: | English |
Audiobooks are rapidly gaining popularity with widely accessible digital downloading and streaming services. 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. Have and Stougaard Pedersen challenge the historical notion that audiobook listening is a compensatory activity or a second-rate reading experience, while seeking to establish a dialogue between sound studies and media studies, comparative literature, aesthetics, and sociology.
Audiobooks are rapidly gaining popularity with widely accessible digital downloading and streaming services. 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. Have and Stougaard Pedersen challenge the historical notion that audiobook listening is a compensatory activity or a second-rate reading experience, while seeking to establish a dialogue between sound studies and media studies, comparative literature, aesthetics, and sociology.
