Friday, June 17th, 11:00-12:30 (6020 HSSB)
Moderator: Alan Liu. Discussants: Anne Balsamo, Adrian Johns, Jerome J. McGann, J. Hillis Miller, Carol Braun Pasternack, Leah Price, Ronald E. Rice, Bob Stein, William B. Warner
- “What is good reading today, and yesterday?”
- “What is the difference between reading and searching, or browsing?”
- “How can research into historical reading practices (and the history of the book) help us think about online reading today?”
- “How can research into new media technologies and online reading practices help us better understand historical reading practices?”
- ”’How to take a good online text to bed’: What promising directions in human factors or interface research can mediate between past and present reading practices?”
- “How can reading online be improved? (including the question: what might ‘improvement’ mean?) And what do we have to do to get there? (For example, what are the key problem areas in current research or technology?)”
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