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Centre for e-Research Seminar, King's College London
Reading Screens Orla Murphy , University College Cork http://www.kcl.ac.uk/innovation/groups/cerch/research/seminars/2012-13/readi...
13 November 21012, 6.15pm, Anatomy Museum Space, Strand Campus (directions: http://www.kcl.ac.uk/cultural/atm/location.aspx)
The cultural act of reading is in flux. The dynamic, contextual framework that is the text viewed on screen challenges our understanding of the page. Some technologies seek to emulate the page, to turn off the back light and enable reading outdoors in sunlight. Other digital technologies aim to both sustain and augment the reader’s experience of the text, moving beyond the paper page and into a new conceptualisation of reading, with layers of texts, with choices of views, with integrated multi and social media. This presentation explores how we once read and how we now read often multivalent texts on multiple screens. I query what has changed in these new modes of knowledge representation, and what remains constant, and posit challenges for future scholarly discourse.
About the Speaker
Orla Murphy – Coordinator of the MA DAH program at UCC, member of the national inter-institutional PhD DAH program in Ireland. Lecturer in the School of English, University College Cork, where she teaches, Old English language, palaeography, codicology and new histories of the book; a third year course on textualities, and MA, PhD courses on digital scholarly editing and textual practice.
The seminar will be followed by wine and nibbles.