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Research
- James Law, David Barny, and Rachel Poulin. “Patterns of peer interaction in multimodal L2 digital social reading” Language Learning & Technology Vol. 24 Iss. 2 (2020) p. 70-85 (Available here)
- Joshua J. Thoms and Frederick Poole. “Exploring digital literacy practices via L2 social reading” L2 Journal Vol. 10 Iss. 2 (2018) p. 36 – 61 (Available here)
- Kristen Michelson and Beatrice Dupuy. “Teacher learning under co-construction: Affordances of digital social annotated reading” Alsic Vol. 21 (2018) (Available here)
- Joshua J. Thoms and Frederick Poole. “Investigating linguistic, literary, and social affordances of L2 collaborative reading” Language Learning & Technology Vol. 21 Iss. 2 (2017) p. 139 – 156 (Available here)
- Joshua J. Thoms, Ko-Yin Sung and Frederick Poole. “Investigating the linguistic and pedagogical affordances of an L2 open reading environment via eComma: An exploratory study in a Chinese language course” System Vol. 69 (2017) p. 38 – 53 (Available here)
- Visconti, Amanda. “’How Can You Love a Work If You Don’t Know It?’: Critical Code and Design toward Participatory Digital Editions.” Dissertation from the University of Maryland, 2015. (Available here)
Articles
- “With Social Reading Books Become Places to Meet,” The Chronicle of Higher Education, November 26, 2012
- “Ebooks: A More Civilised Way of Scribbling in the Margins,” The Guardian, March 24, 2012
- “What I Really Want is Someone Rolling Around in the Text,” New York Times, March 4, 2011
- “What the Heck is Social Reading?,” Los Angeles Times, December 22, 2011
- “Online, R U Really Reading?” New York Times, July 27, 2008
Podcast
- NEW! We Teach Languages Episode 109: Multilitercies and Digital Social Reading with Carl Blyth (podcast episode)
Books
- “How We Think: Digital Media and Technogenesis” by N. Katherine Hayles
- “Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain” by Maryanne Wolf
- “Understanding Digital Literacies” by Rodney Jones and Christoph Hafner
Websites
- The Institute for the Future of the Book
- booktwo.org (The Blog of James Bridle)
- BookGlutton
- OpenMargin Dialogue
Infographics
- The New Readers (New York Times infographic)
- Rise of eReading (Visual.ly infographic)
Videos
- Social Reading in the Second Language (L2) Classroom by Abby R. Broughton (Webinar)
- Subtext (Vimeo video)
- Mike Matas: A Next Generation Digital Book (Ted Talk video)
- What We Learned From 5 Million Books (Ted Talk video)