Reading Communities: Connecting the Past and the Present

阅读社区：连接过去和现在

基本信息

批准号：
AH/N003667/1
负责人：
Syed Towheed
金额：
$ 9.99万
依托单位：
The Open University
依托单位国家：
英国
项目类别：
Research Grant
财政年份：
2015
资助国家：
英国
起止时间：
2015 至无数据
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FN003667%2F1
关键词：
Reading Communities Connecting Past Present

项目摘要

Launched with AHRC funding in 2006, The Reading Experience Database, 1450-1945 (RED) is the world's largest single repository relating to reading experiences, now containing over 33,000 individual entries. It is an unique global research and teaching resource for the history of reading practices. A pioneer in crowdsourcing for the digital humanities, RED also has a proven track record of public engagement through the involvement of volunteers. RED team members have mentored volunteers to search the published letters and diaries of writers or historical figures for evidences of reading, and have trained volunteers to enter information from unpublished material in their own family archives. This has enabled a radical democratization of research in the history of reading, allowing interested members of the public to help locate, identify and enter the source material on which so much academic research in the subject depends.Reading and its history are topics that have wide interest to members of the public. RED as an open-source, outward-facing project has the potential to reach a much wider range of individuals and groups than was anticipated in the initial project design ten years ago. The main aim of 'Reading Communities: Connecting the Past and the Present' is therefore to reach out to a new generation of non-academic audiences - particularly reading groups - with whom RED has not engaged before and to take advantage of developments in social media. In doing so, we aim to bring today's readers into a closer and more enriching relationship with readers from the past, thereby connecting past and present practices of reading.This follow-on project will reach communities of readers through events in five key cities across the UK: Belfast, Birmingham, Edinburgh, Liverpool, and London. Activities in each location will have a specific theme and target specific communities. Events will be timed to coincide with reading-related events and anniversaries throughout the year. The Belfast event is thematically organised around the question, 'Is there such a thing as a Northern Irish reader?' and will encourage members of reading groups to consider how Northern Irish readers have shaped their cultural identity through reading in the last 100 years. Events in Belfast will be timed to coincide with the centenary of the 1916 Easter Rising (24 April; Belfast), a key point in shaping national cultural identity. The London event will encourage participants to think about reading during the Second World War. Working with the 'Ministry of Information Digital' project, we will bring together historical information about reading during the conflict, and through the oral history workshop, solicit testimonies and memories of childhood reading from people alive today. The London event is designed to coincide with the anniversary of the Battle of Britain (15 September; London). Activities will include workshops, public lectures, shared readings, a film viewing and a conference. The project will include the first-ever reading experience 'roadshows' in which participants will be able to bring items from family archives, such as diaries, letters or annotated books, explore their context with the help of RED volunteers, and enter the details into the database. Two oral history workshops (Birmingham and London) will also capture testimonies about recollecting past reading experience.

阅读体验数据库，1450-1945 (RED) 于 2006 年在 AHRC 的资助下推出，是世界上最大的与阅读体验相关的单一存储库，目前包含超过 33,000 个个人条目。它是阅读实践史的独特的全球研究和教学资源。作为数字人文众包领域的先驱，RED 还通过志愿者的参与在公众参与方面拥有良好的记录。 RED 团队成员指导志愿者搜索作家或历史人物已发表的信件和日记，寻找阅读的证据，并培训志愿者将未发表材料中的信息输入自己的家庭档案中。这使得阅读史研究彻底民主化，让感兴趣的公众能够帮助查找、识别和输入该学科众多学术研究所依赖的源材料。阅读及其历史是具有广泛影响力的话题。公众的兴趣。 RED 作为一个开源、面向外的项目，有可能接触到比十年前最初项目设计中预期的更广泛的个人和团体。因此，“阅读社区：连接过去与现在”的主要目标是接触 RED 以前从未接触过的新一代非学术受众，特别是阅读群体，并利用社交媒体的发展。在此过程中，我们的目标是让今天的读者与过去的读者建立更紧密、更丰富的关系，从而将过去和现在的阅读实践联系起来。这个后续项目将通过在全国五个主要城市举办的活动来接触读者社区。英国：贝尔法斯特、伯明翰、爱丁堡、利物浦和伦敦。每个地点的活动都有特定的主题并针对特定的社区。活动的时间将与全年阅读相关的活动和周年纪念日一致。贝尔法斯特活动的主题是围绕“北爱尔兰读者存在吗？”这一问题展开。并将鼓励阅读小组的成员思考过去 100 年来北爱尔兰读者如何通过阅读塑造他们的文化身份。贝尔法斯特的活动时间将恰逢 1916 年复活节起义一百周年（4 月 24 日；贝尔法斯特），这是塑造国家文化认同的关键时刻。伦敦活动将鼓励参与者思考第二次世界大战期间的阅读。我们将与“信息部数字化”项目合作，汇集有关冲突期间阅读的历史信息，并通过口述历史研讨会，向当今的人们征求童年阅读的证词和记忆。伦敦活动旨在纪念不列颠之战周年纪念日（9 月 15 日；伦敦）。活动将包括研讨会、公开讲座、分享阅读、电影观看和会议。该项目将包括首次阅读体验“路演”，参与者将能够携带家庭档案中的物品，例如日记、信件或带注释的书籍，在 RED 志愿者的帮助下探索他们的背景，并将详细信息输入到数据库。两个口述历史研讨会（伯明翰和伦敦）也将收集有关回忆过去阅读经历的证词。