My book project, Hashtag Reading: Race in Web 2.0 Literature, answers two questions: first, how has the Internet affected the deployment of literary form, genre, and reading publics in a post-Obama, Open-Source era? This question feels particularly urgent given that the Web 2.0 has only served to provoke deeply public national and global divisions about race. The second question is embedded within the first—how can we respond to the ongoing societal discourse surrounding the “decline of attention” and especially the literary concern of the waning of reading? To address these questions, Hashtag Reading focuses on five literary genres: the Wikipedic novel, elegiac memoir, satire, young adult fiction, and romance. I argue that each genre, its publication, and circulation through the sphere of public opinion and information has emerged from a distinctly digital apparatus of cultural and publishing capital. While it may well be impossible to understand “who” and “what” is read to exacting certitude, this study uses publicly Open-sourced information that reveals how literary form, marketplace, and cultural acclaim have evolved and adapted since the rise of Wikipedia, Twitter, YouTube, Instagram, and TikTok. These platforms are all paradigms of Web 2.0’s definition: an Internet that shifted from a purely informatic resource in Web 1.0 (checking sports scores, tock stickers, and news) to a discursive platform (uploading amateur highlight reels of sports, creating cryptocurrency, and crafting or one’s own alternative news sources). I mark this period as becoming its own rightful era in 2006 before amplifying in 2009 with Apple’s release of the iPhone, which exponentiated the smartphone’s global mass adoption. In turn, the literature that has been produced since 2006 offers insights and a timeline for the Open-source’s ramifications for both readers and writers. The global political landscape during the Web 2.0 era has worked hand-in-hand with social media’s development: Arab Spring, Occupy Wall Street, the #NoDAPL/#imwithstandingrock Dakota Access Pipeline Protests, and the Black Lives Matter enterprise. Virtual exposure to crimes against humanity (the environment included) has provoked incisive commentary that at once traffics between vehement-yet-partially-informed-rage about violent video clips to measured-and-digestible Twitter strings and video captions from “verified” public figures. Hashtag Reading addresses the political ramifications of Web 2.0’s influence on realist fiction, which enfolds and metabolizes these voices and media.