eprintid: 10178599
rev_number: 10
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datestamp: 2023-10-12 11:31:30
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type: article
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creators_name: Dietz, Laura
title: Projection or Reflection? The Pandemic Bookshelf as a Mirror for Self-Image and Personal Identity
ispublished: pub
divisions: UCL
divisions: B03
divisions: C01
divisions: F15
keywords: Bookshelves, reading, zoom, identity, pandemic, COVID-19
note: This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions.
abstract: The opportunity for display of books is a frequently cited reason for choosing print reading over e-reading. But the desired display is not always intended for others. For many, the most important observer of a personal bookshelf is the person to whom it belongs: a physical shelf as means to access, commemorate, and honour reading history and reading identity. This makes it essential to consider bookshelves in the era of COVID-19 not only in terms of the Zoom feed, beaming snapshots of collections to the outside world, but also Zoom “self view”: the digital selfportrait hovering in the corner of our device screens. Drawing on qualitative data from surveys, focus groups and interviews conducted between 2014 and 2021, this paper will explore the phenomenon of the backdrop as mirror, and examine curated bookshelves - including manipulated, misattributed, or appropriated bookshelves - in terms of self- as well as public image.
date: 2022-06-23
date_type: published
publisher: Informa UK Limited
official_url: https://doi.org/10.1080/0013838X.2022.2087034
oa_status: green
full_text_type: other
language: eng
primo: open
primo_central: open_green
verified: verified_manual
elements_id: 2095534
doi: 10.1080/0013838x.2022.2087034
lyricists_name: Dietz, Laura
lyricists_id: LCDIE89
actors_name: Dietz, Laura
actors_id: LCDIE89
actors_role: owner
full_text_status: public
publication: English Studies
volume: 103
number: 5
pagerange: 675-689
issn: 0013-838X
citation:        Dietz, Laura;      (2022)    Projection or Reflection? The Pandemic Bookshelf as a Mirror for Self-Image and Personal Identity.                   English Studies , 103  (5)   pp. 675-689.    10.1080/0013838x.2022.2087034 <https://doi.org/10.1080/0013838x.2022.2087034>.       Green open access   
 
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