Community and Communion: Books as Communal Artifacts in the Digital Age

Yasmin Ibrahim

Chapter 3.2 in Emerging Digital Spaces in Contemporary Society, 2010, pp 75-77 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract Benedict Anderson in Imagined Communities (1983) and Homi Baba in Nation and Narration (1990) contend that books capture the collective consciousness of a society and the zeitgeist of a community. In the process they reveal our cultural codes, providing insights into our consumption patterns, prefer-ences, tastes, and social make-up (Bourdieu 1984). In the digital age books have forged new forms of communities and communion. This has happened through the intertextuality between media platforms such as television and the Internet as well as the nature of the electronic environment, which has enabled new forms of communities to flourish.

Keywords: Virtual Community; Public Library; Book Club; Collective Consciousness; Physical Library (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
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DOI: 10.1057/9780230299047_12

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