Duration
30h Th
Number of credits
| Master in communication (120 ECTS) | 5 crédits | |||
| Master in French and Romance languages and literatures : general (120 ECTS) | 5 crédits |
Lecturer
Language(s) of instruction
French language
Organisation and examination
Teaching in the second semester
Schedule
Units courses prerequisite and corequisite
Prerequisite or corequisite units are presented within each program
Learning unit contents
This course looks at the relationship between books and digital technology from the perspective of the computerization of the book chain. After outlining the major contradictory myths surrounding the digital book, the course looks at how information technology revolutionized the book trade at the end of the last century, and analyzes precursory projects. It then examines the forms taken by the digital book (homothetic, enriched, etc.) and its reading media (computer, e-reader, tablet, telephone, etc.) before comparing them and identifying complementary reading practices. One of the aims is to get students to think of the printed book as "one" of the realizations that can be taken up by content in the digital ecosystem, in the same way as the audio book. In order to identify the redefinitions, creations and possible disappearances (disintermediation) of professions, the course analyzes the functioning of the digital book chain, focusing on certain links (diffusion-distribution, bookstores, libraries) and cases (online self-publishing), while giving pride of place to communities of readers and new figures in criticism and recommendation (YouTube, Instagram, TikTok). Attentive to the disruptive elements of the digital book chain, this course also aims to make students aware of the profound upheavals in the print book industry that digital technology is fostering (e.g. print-on-demand). Lastly, it confronts the commercial publishing model with paradigms that have emerged in libraries, scientific research and piracy.
Learning outcomes of the learning unit
1. Understanding, thanks to cases studies, its internal (between several economical systems) as well as external tensions (regarding traditional publishing or other medias).
2. Developing a wide knowledge of the possibilities offered by the digital revolution in terms of books.
Prerequisite knowledge and skills
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Planned learning activities and teaching methods
Lectures and exercices.
Mode of delivery (face to face, distance learning, hybrid learning)
Face-to-face course
Recommended or required readings
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Exam(s) in session
Any session
- In-person
written exam ( open-ended questions )
Work placement(s)
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Organisational remarks and main changes to the course
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Contacts
Tanguy HABRAND
tanguy.habrand@uliege.be
Association of one or more MOOCs
There is no MOOC associated with this course.