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Birgitte Stougaard Pedersen

AIAS FORMER FELLOW

Current position: Associate Professor, School of Communication and Culture - Aesthetics and Culture, Aarhus University, Denmark

During her Carlsberg Monograph Fellowship, Birgitte Stougaard Pedersen worked on the project 'Rhythms of Reading'

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.

Project title: Rhythms of Reading

Area of research: Sound Studies

Fellowship period: 1 Sep 2025 - 31 Dec 2026

Fellowship type: Carlsberg Monograph Fellow

This fellowship has received funding from The Carlsberg Foundation under the monograph fellowships.