This volume offers a critical overview of digital reading practices and scholarly efforts to analyze and understand reading in the mediatized landscape.

Maria Engberg is Associate Professor at Malmö University, Sweden, and an Affiliate Researcher at Georgia Institute of Technology, U.S.A. She holds a Ph.D. in English from Uppsala University, Sweden.

Iben Have is Associate Professor in Media Studies in the School of Communication and Culture, Aarhus University, Denmark. She holds a Ph.D. in Musicology from Aarhus University.

Birgitte Stougaard Pedersen is Associate Professor in Aesthetics and Culture in the School of Communication and Culture, Aarhus University, Denmark. She holds a Ph.D. in Aesthetics and Culture from Aarhus University.

List of Contributors; Introduction; Section I: Historical and Sociocultural Perspectives on Reading; Introduction to Section I; 1. Reading and Materiality: Conditions of Digital Reading; 2. History of Media Cultures from the Perspective of Multisensory Reading; 3. The Condition of Reading in a Digital Media Culture; 4. Reading Toward Multiliteracies: Understanding Reading Comprehension and Reading Experience; Section II: Multisensory Reading; Introduction to Section II; 5. Reading and the Senses: Cultural and Technological Perspectives; 6. Reading a Literary App for Children; 7. Trends in Immersive Journalism; 8. Multisensory Reading of Digital Audiobooks; 9. How to Read a Network, or the Internet as Unfinished Demo; Section III: Reading Engagement: Aspects of Digital Reading; Introduction to Section III; 10. Deep, Focused, and Critical Reading Between Media; 11. Reading Digital Interfaces and Audiobooks: Media-Specific and Multisensory Aspects of Immersion; 12. Motivations for Audiobook Reading in Modern Everyday Lives; Section IV: Young Readers Between Media; Introduction to Section IV; 13. Digital Reading in Education: A Situated Disciplinary Literacies Perspective; 14. Different Modes of Reading: Eighth-Grade Students' Interaction with a Digital Narrative; 15. Transmedial Reading; 16. Readers Between Media: Sixth-Grade Students Tuning in to Literature in Different Formats; Section V: Aesthetics and Digital Reading; Introduction to Section V; 17. Situated Reading; 18. Reading: Atmosphere, Ambience, and Attunement; 19. Resonance and the Digital Conditions of Reading; Conclusion: The Digital Reading Condition