This paper addresses doing audiobook research using a digital walkthrough method grounded in platform studies (an interdisciplinary field drawing on business and software studies). Scholars such as Sundén & Tanderup Linkis (2024) have used the walkthrough method to analyze digital reading platforms. The walkthrough method presents a systematic way to explore a platform, site, or software...
Audiobooks are accessed through interconnected platforms and interfaces, generating infrastructural entanglements between stakeholders in the production, circulation and reception of books in audio formats. The nested and interconnected platforms, whether Amazon’s Audible, Overdrive’s Libby, Spotify, Librivox or other services, offer different infrastructural characteristics that influence the...
The rhythms of reading literature via streaming platforms, like music streaming, are systemically structured by the technological configurations of the platforms we use for the activity; however, individually designed by each reader for her specific plans and/or moods.
"Curating reading of literature in a digital age" discusses how reading practices, reading habits, and reading situations...