Project description

Digital systems change the rhythms of everyday life. Based on the increase in the use of audio and e-books in an on-demand culture, this volume will use rhythm as a scientific paradigm to examine how reading literature, as part of digital media routines in a matured digital culture, undergoes a cultural transformation and thereby calls for a new analytical and methodological framework.

Short bio

My research interests fall within the fields of sound, literature, digital culture, reading, music, medialization and phenomenological aspects of aesthetic experience. I focus on the unique epistemological potential of sound with respect to how we sense and experience the world, and in studies of e.g. the digital audiobook I have researched how sound is constituted and changed by the cultural discourses in which it is active. This topic I have explored in as diverse phenomena as 20th-century literature and music (Virginia Woolf, Gunnar Björling, John Cage and Maurice Ravel), Danish rap music, poetry slam and digital audiobooks.