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„Czytanie społecznościowe: platformy, aplikacje, chmury i tagi” - próba analizy
“Social reading: platforms, applications, clouds and tags” – an analysis attempt

Author(s): Weronika Kortas
Subject(s): Social Sciences, Book-Review
Published by: Wydawnictwo Naukowe Uniwersytetu Mikołaja Kopernika
Keywords: social reading; web 2.0; online reading; reading; e-book

Summary/Abstract: With the development of the Internet and the emergence of Web 2.0, a revolution in the approach to electronic texts has begun – from the author’s, the publisher’s and the reader’s point of view. Social reading online is a new reading technique that has emerged. The most comprehensive work on the subject and at the same time the publication which is being analyzed in this article is Social Reading: Platforms, Applications, Clouds and Tags from 2013. It is the result of work undertaken by a team of four researchers from the Spanish University of Salamanca, which included: José-Antonio Cordón-García, Julio Alonso-Arévalo, Raquel Gómez-Díaz and Daniel Linder. They define social reading as “reading carried out on virtual environments where book and the reading favor the formation of «community» and a means of exchange”. This article contains a overview of the publication and main conclusions presented in it.

  • Issue Year: 20/2018
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 143-162
  • Page Count: 20
  • Language: Polish