Digital Audiobooks

Iben Have is Associate Professor in Media Studies at Aarhus University. She works in an interdisciplinary field between sound studies and media studies. She has written the book Lyt til TV (Listening to TV, 2008) and several book chapters and articles concerning sound and music in audiovisual media. Her current research interest is audio media like audiobooks and radio, and she is founding editor of SoundEffects: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Sound and Sound Experience. Birgitte Stougaard Pedersen is Associate Professor in Aesthetics and Culture at Aarhus University. She works in an interdisciplinary field between comparative literature, aesthetics and sound studies. She has published the books Lyd Litteratur og Musik (Sound, Literature and Music, 2008), edited Hiphop in Scandinavia (2008), Offbeat—Pluralizing Rhythm (2013) and several articles concerning literature, mediality, sound, and music. She is founding editor of SoundEffects: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Sound and Sound Experience. 

1. The Digital Audiobook in Between Part I: Aesthetics, Sound, Senses 2. Modes of Reading as Listening 3. Intersensorial Situations Part II: Affordance and Voice 4. Affordances of the Digital Audiobook 5. The Performing Voice of the Audiobook Part III: Usage and Mediatization 6. Empirical Notions of Audiobook Use and Users 7. The Audiobook in a Mediatized Soundscape 8. The Digital Audiobook Revisited