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Brendan Riley, The Digital Age Detective: Mysteries in a Changing Landscape of Literacy

Brendan Riley, The Digital Age Detective: Mysteries in a Changing Landscape of Literacy BOOK REVIEWS Brendan Riley. The Digital Age Detective: Mysteries in a Changing Landscape of Literacy. McFarland, 2017. $49.95, 978-0-7864-9998-4, pp. 204. Reviewed by Nicole Kenley In The Digital Age Detective, Brendan Riley details the rise of an increasingly digital era through the lens of popular culture, including the figure of the detective. Riley’s fundamental premise is that the dawning digital age rep- resents a cultural shift as consequential as that from orality to literacy and that figures from popular culture such as the detective function as apt markers for tracing this change. Riley draws from a wide swath of examples including novels, literary and cultural theory, film and television, video games, news and social media, and even Internet controversies to chart this trajectory. The ratiocinative detective, Riley argues, represents methods of processing information in the era of literacy, and changes to that detection model, which he tracks through the hardboiled to the postmodern, serve as harbingers for the nascent age of what media theorist Marshall McLuhan terms electracy. Electracy, fomented by the cultural and cognitive changes that the changing th st media landscape of the late 20 and early 21 Centuries precipitated, is manifest in contemporary culture. Therefore, cultural http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Crime Fiction Studies Edinburgh University Press

Brendan Riley, The Digital Age Detective: Mysteries in a Changing Landscape of Literacy

Kenley, Nicole
Crime Fiction Studies , Volume 1 (2): 3 – Sep 1, 2020
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BOOK REVIEWS Brendan Riley. The Digital Age Detective: Mysteries in a Changing Landscape of Literacy. McFarland, 2017. $49.95, 978-0-7864-9998-4, pp. 204. Reviewed by Nicole Kenley In The Digital Age Detective, Brendan Riley details the rise of an increasingly digital era through the lens of popular culture, including the figure of the detective. Riley’s fundamental premise is that the dawning digital age rep- resents a cultural shift as consequential as that from orality to literacy and that figures from popular culture such as the detective function as apt markers for tracing this change. Riley draws from a wide swath of examples including novels, literary and cultural theory, film and television, video games, news and social media, and even Internet controversies to chart this trajectory. The ratiocinative detective, Riley argues, represents methods of processing information in the era of literacy, and changes to that detection model, which he tracks through the hardboiled to the postmodern, serve as harbingers for the nascent age of what media theorist Marshall McLuhan terms electracy. Electracy, fomented by the cultural and cognitive changes that the changing th st media landscape of the late 20 and early 21 Centuries precipitated, is manifest in contemporary culture. Therefore, cultural

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