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Active Readership
2011
Overview
This chapter explores information issues related to the practice of reading. More specifically, the focus is on comics, detailing the transition of the comics reader from the passive consumer to an active participant in shaping both the future of the medium and a participatory reading culture.
The patterns of readership of comics in America since the end of the nineteenth century form a richly textured tapestry. In his bookComic Book Nation: The Transformation of Youth Culture in America,Brad Wright explains: “Few enduring expressions of American popular culture are so instantly recognizable and still so poorly understood as comic
