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7. Grangerisation: Content-Sharing in the Days Before Facebook
A key feature of Facebook is the ability to share external content or other people’s posts on the platform by clicking the ‘share’...
6. Performing Identity in Edwardian Book Inscriptions
In last week’s post, I discussed the ways in which Edwardian pictorial bookplates served similar functions to contemporary selfies in...
5. Tracing Selfies to the Edwardian Bookplate
On Facebook, users express, explore and experiment with their identity through selfies – a self-portrait digital photograph typically...
4. Status Updates in the Edwardian Book Inscription
“Arnold Sills born on 20th of April at 11:15pm” “G.H. Newton is quite incompetent and grossly careless” “I am going to Canada on June...
3. Clean-Copy Challenges, Victorian Style!
For those of you old enough to remember when MySpace and Bebo were the most popular social media platforms, you may recall clean-copy...
2. Birthday Notifications in a Pre-Facebook World
If you are a user of Facebook, then you will be mighty familiar with the birthday notifications that pop up when you log in, reminding...
1. Bringing the “Transhistorical” to Multimodal Studies
In recent years, the field of literacy studies has seen a growing turn towards transhistorical approaches, whereby apparently ‘new’...
'Facebooking' Through Edwardian Book Inscriptions
Welcome to this blog page! I am pleased to announce a short blog series coming soon entitled 'Facebooking' Through Edwardian Book...
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