Learn to Read Differently
- Submitting institution
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Leeds Beckett University
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- 41
- Type
- C - Chapter in book
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- Book title
- Book Presence in the Digital Age
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing
- ISBN
- 978-1-5013-2118-4
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- June
- Year of publication
- 2018
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- Professor Simon Morris was invited to be part of an international research group entitled ‘Back to the Book’, led by Professor Kiene Brillenburg from the University of Utrecht in the Netherlands. The research question investigated the complex relationship of materiality to virtuality, and of the analog to the digital in books.
Morris was flown out to present at a three-day conference in the Netherlands and then invited to write a chapter for the anthology: Book Presence in a Digital Age, Edited by Kári Driscoll, Jessica Pressman and Kiene Brillenburg Wurth. The research investigation brought together leading scholars, artists, and publishers in the field and offers a variety of mutually enhancing perspectives on the past, present and future of the book as a medium. Morris contributed a thirty-one page fully illustrated (21 images) book chapter, ‘Learn to Read Differently’, pp. 163-194.
The book was shared and disseminated through Bloomsbury Publishing Inc., New York.
“Book Presence in a Digital Age is that rare volume that reads as both the culmination and anticipation of a field. It reflexively brings together some of the most compelling critics and artists thinking about 'the book' as medium and cultural artifact – and the individual conversations, explorations, and interventions that result would have alone made for a worthy volume. But the cumulative effect is much more than this, for collectively they articulate the questions that will inform scholarship and artistic practice for some years to come.” – Rita Raley, Associate Professor of English, University of California.
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- Non-English
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