Cultural Review: Amazon Kindle
Channel: Digital Matters
Date: 2018-08-21

Read the complete review at https://wp.me/p8UMa7-aK

At the University of Utah's Digital Matters Lab, we're launching a series of video and written reviews that approaches eReaders and similar devices from a cultural perspective. Instead of focusing on the latest hardware specs, we're more interested in reviewing the entirety of the device and its software ecosystem to understand how it impacts the wider reading public. For example, while this particular review focuses on the Kindle Paperwhite, it's really a stand-in for the entire Kindle series' design philosophy and policies. The ultimate criteria by which a cultural review evaluates a device is how, in the long term, it benefits the way we consume, produce, and circulate culture.

Music: "Funky Element" from Bensound.com (Creative Commons)