Research Seminar for Mediated Culture and Information: Mathies Græsborg (Göteborgs Universitet), Project presentation: "New work, new reading"

The project explores how literary reception is adapting to labor developments using data and methods from digital humanities. Scholars have shown that what we now call "literature" developed in response to some very fundamental changes to the workday as workers obtained more time to read fiction. Today, work is undergoing cataclysmic transformations as a result of digitization and the internet. Workers are becoming increasingly precarious and are expected to be available 24/7 on their mobile devices and smartphones. I am interested in what happens to reading when work becomes digital and omnipresent.