About Reading Seen As a Commons Brigitte Ouvry-Vial
About reading seen as a Commons Brigitte Ouvry-Vial To cite this version: Brigitte Ouvry-Vial. About reading seen as a Commons. Participations : journal of audience and reception studies, University of Wales, 2019, Participations: ”Readers, Reading and Digital Media”, 16 (1). hal-02106399 HAL Id: hal-02106399 https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-02106399 Submitted on 26 Apr 2019 HAL is a multi-disciplinary open access L’archive ouverte pluridisciplinaire HAL, est archive for the deposit and dissemination of sci- destinée au dépôt et à la diffusion de documents entific research documents, whether they are pub- scientifiques de niveau recherche, publiés ou non, lished or not. The documents may come from émanant des établissements d’enseignement et de teaching and research institutions in France or recherche français ou étrangers, des laboratoires abroad, or from public or private research centers. publics ou privés. Copyright . Volume 16, Issue 1 May 2019 Reading seen as A Commons Brigitte Ouvry-Vial, Le Mans University, France Abstract: The purpose of this article is to suggest that reading can be understood as a potential ‘Commons’, e.g. at the very least a shared and deep sense of inhabiting, with other readers, a common domain afforded by literature or books at large. The article traverses the field of existing literature on historical and contemporary reading practice, combining previous findings in Book History with the emerging field of digital writing and reading studies in order to find points of commonalities reconnecting current digital practices with the long history of print modes. Recent technological changes are thus put into perspective, while the discussion suggests that the social imagery, as well as the societal impact attached to reading, makes it akin to a sort of Knowledge Commons.
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