Beth Driscoll

What makes friends tick and what makes them kill? Review of Ceridwen Dovey, Life After Truth

Elizabeth Driscoll

Media  |  2021

THE EPISTEMOLOGY OF ULLAPOOLISM making mischief from within contemporary book cultures

Beth Driscoll, Claire Squires

Journal article  |  2020  |  ANGELAKI-JOURNAL OF THE THEORETICAL HUMANITIES

This article proposes Ullapoolism, a post-data, activist, autoethnographic epistemology for contemporary book culture studies. It ..

The transnational reception of bestselling books between Canada and Australia

Beth Driscoll, DeNel Rehberg Sedo

Journal article  |  2020  |  Global Media and Communication

This study investigates the circulation and reception of six bestsellers between Canada and Australia (2005–2014). We ask which co..

Difficult literature on Goodreads: reading Alexis Wright'sThe Swan Book

Emmett Stinson, Beth Driscoll

Journal article  |  2020  |  TEXTUAL PRACTICE

This article considers Alexis Wright's novel The Swan Book (2013) and argues that the text's difficulty, which recalls literary mo..

The Frankfurt Book Fair and Bestseller Business

Elizabeth Driscoll, Claire Squires

Book  |  2020

The Frankfurt Book Fair is the leading global industry venue for rights sales, facilitating business-to-buzzness deals and interna..

Book Commerce Book Carnival: An Introduction to the Special Issue

Beth Driscoll, Claire Squires

Journal article  |  2020  |  Mémoires du livre

Book-based cultural and commercial events are the subject of this special issue, BOOK COMMERCE BOOK CARNIVAL. From the foundation ..

Megativity and Miniaturization at the Frankfurt Book Fair

Elizabeth Driscoll, Claire Squires

Journal article  |  2020  |  Post45 Contemporaries

The Frankfurt Book Fair, or in its native German, the Frankfurter Buchmesse, restarted in the aftermath of the Second World War as..

Experiments with Book Festival People (Real and Imaginary)

Beth Driscoll, Claire Squires

Journal article  |  2020  |  Mémoires du livre

While there are multiple approaches to researching cultural events, predominant academic frames tend to be either sociological or ..

Faraway, So Close: Seeing the Intimacy in Goodreads Reviews

Beth Driscoll, DeNel Rehberg Sedo

Journal article  |  2019  |  QUALITATIVE INQUIRY

Book reviews written by readers and published on digital sites such as Goodreads are a new force in contemporary book culture. Thi..

Playful Twitter Accounts and the Socialisation of Literary Institutions

Millicent Weber, E Driscoll

Journal article  |  2019  |  First Monday

Humour serves a variety of purposes on social media, from aesthetic content creation and social interaction through to corporate a..