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Taking Bookishness Seriously

Bookishness: Loving Books in a Digital Age by professor and literature scholar Jessica Pressman sits at the intersection of academia and bookstagram. The term “bookstagram” refers to Instagram for “bookish” content. On bookstagram, the term “bookish” describes activities, merchandise, or even individuals that revolve around books. I felt delighted to discover that this academic scholar takes bookishness seriously through an analytical, scholarly, and theoretical lens. Pressman’s research question was essentially how and why representations of physical books persisted into a digital or even post-digital era. Indeed, the presence of a cell phone case or laptop cover designed like a book Read more