Henrickson, L orcid.org/0000-0001-8008-2373 (2022) “Ummmmm, guys? Don’t microwave your books”: Readers, Authors, and Institutions in #PandemicReading Tweets. In: Norrick-Rühl, C and Towheed, S, (eds.) Bookshelves in the Age of the COVID-19 Pandemic. New Directions in Book History . Palgrave Macmillan , pp. 259-279. ISBN 978-3-031-05291-0
Abstract
This paper reflects upon public use of the #PandemicReading and #PandemicBookshelves hashtags on Twitter in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic lockdowns. Analysed tweets were collected using the freely available browser-based web scraping tool Netlytic; a detailed methodological overview is provided. Three broad categories of tweeters are identified based on trends in the tweets under review: (1) reactive readers; (2) resilient authors; and (3) digitally engaged institutions. Each of these categories is reviewed in turn. This paper concludes by acknowledging the cathartic and communal potential of engagement with the #PandemicReading and #PandemicBookshelves hashtags.
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Item Type: | Book Section |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2022 The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG. This is an author produced version of a book chapter published in Bookshelves in the Age of the COVID-19 Pandemic. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. |
Keywords: | Authorship, Public perception, Reader response, Social media, Twitter, Web scraping |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Cultures (Leeds) > School of Media & Communication (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 27 Jan 2022 15:05 |
Last Modified: | 06 Oct 2024 00:13 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Palgrave Macmillan |
Series Name: | New Directions in Book History |
Identification Number: | 10.1007/978-3-031-05292-7_13 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:182904 |