New tastemakers and Australia's post-digital literary culture

Institutions, platforms and the production of debut success in contemporary book culture

Claire Parnell, Beth Driscoll

2021-08-02

Bestsellers, defined by the high sales numbers they achieve and the hype they generate, are success stories that periodically galv..

THE EPISTEMOLOGY OF ULLAPOOLISM making mischief from within contemporary book cultures

Beth Driscoll, Claire Squires

2020-09-02

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

Culture wars and corporatism: The cultural mission in Australian non-fiction book publishing, 1958–2018

Mark Davis

2020-04-28

In this article I investigate four phases in Australian non-fiction publishing between the late 1950s and early 2000s, focused on ..

Book Commerce Book Carnival: An Introduction to the Special Issue

Beth Driscoll, Claire Squires

2020-01-01

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

Experiments with Book Festival People (Real and Imaginary)

Beth Driscoll, Claire Squires

2020-01-01

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

Feminism in the troll space: Clementine Ford’s Fight Like a Girl, social media, and the networked book

M Weber, M Davis

2020-01-01

Clementine Ford’s memoir/manifesto hybrid, Fight Like a Girl, was hailed as a significant contribution to feminist debate in Austr..

Five Processes in the Platformisation of Cultural Production: Amazon and its Publishing Ecosystem

Mark Davis

2020-01-01

The shrinking of Fairfax Media’s books pages: A microstudy of digital disruption

Sybil Nolan, Matthew Ricketson

2019-06-01

This microstudy of digital disruption in newspapers analyses the book review sections of Fairfax Media’s metropolitan dailies, The..

Faraway, So Close: Seeing the Intimacy in Goodreads Reviews

Beth Driscoll, DeNel Rehberg Sedo

2019-03-01

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

Book Blogs as Tastemakers

Elizabeth Driscoll

2019-01-01

A sharper conversation: book publishers' use of social media marketing in the age of the algorithm

Sybil Nolan, Alexandra Dane

2018-08-01

This article explores developments in book publishers’ use of social media (SM) as a marketing tool, particularly the rise of cust..

Oh Look a Ferry, or The Smell of Paper Books

E Driscoll, C Squires

2018-01-01

One of the ways in which people express bookishness is through a declaration of love for ‘the smell of books’, a phrase that evoke..

Serious Fun: Gaming the Book Festival

B Driscoll, C Squires

2018-01-01

The book festival provides an intriguing instance of the overlapping cultural, social and economic dimensions of contemporary lite..

Unsettled Objects: Books, Cultural Politics, and the Case of Reading the Country

M Davis

2018-01-01

Contemporary Australian Literary Culture

Beth Driscoll

2017-01-01

<p>Contemporary Australian literary culture is formed through networks of institutions that support writing and reading. This infr..

Who are the new gatekeepers? Literary mediation and post-digital publishing

M Davis

2017-01-01