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About the Online Digital Book, Flows of Reading
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Flows of Reading

Engaging with Texts

Erin Reilly, Ritesh Mehta, Henry Jenkins, Authors

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About the Online Digital Book, Flows of Reading

Flows of Reading is an online digital book complementary to Reading in a Participatory Culture. You can find it at http://scalar.usc.edu/anvc/flowsofreading


This online digital book will introduce and model an expanded concept of “text.” While common usage of the word “texts” often refers to written or printed matter, literary and cultural theory extends the term to refer to any coherent set of symbols that transmit meaning to those who know how to read them. In an age where ideas may take many forms, may be expressed across many different media, then texts and reading take on new implications. Part of our goal with this project has been to inspire teachers and students, alike, to reflect on what counts as reading and what kinds of reading they perform in their everyday life.  Flows of Reading models a new type of reader – one who reads across different media, with reading understood as an activity of sharing, deconstructing and making meaning.

In Flows of Reading, we have organized the material across four intersecting paths.  We encourage readers to take ownership of their learning as they select and pursue their own routes through this online digital book. 

These paths include: 

·  Motives for Reading urges readers to reflect on their own personal motives for approaching a text and to allow themselves to be moved by the flow of others’ interpretations and media creations.

·  Appropriation and Remixing invites readers to apply creative techniques of sampling or combining media that build upon the original texts and move the flow in the direction of new meaning. 

·  Negotiating Cultural Spaces suggests readers examine the social context of unfamiliar texts by purposefully reflecting on the flow of diverse perspectives and behaviors within sub-cultures.

·  Continuities and Silences guide readers to explore the associations and absences within texts in order to understand how the flow of meanings converge and get left behind for others to discover. 

These four paths offer pedagogical and critical techniques that can be adapted to a range of literary works and offers teachers multiple examples to put these ideas into practice. To ensure versatility of practice, we will introduce a variety of texts throughout the paths, such as David Wiesner’s Flotsam and J. R. R. Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings.  

Our key case study throughout Flows of Reading will be Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick, which will enhance the use of this printed book. We will share a range of videos, produced by Project New Media Literacies (NML), including the entire play from Ricardo Pitts-Wiley’s Moby-Dick: Then and Now.  Additionally, we have included interviews with our expert voices, further essays which expand on the core concepts from this book, and artifacts showing the classroom application of the Teachers’ Strategy Guide: Reading in a Participatory Culture (http://www.newmedialiteracies.org/teachers-strategy-guides.php).

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