An Introduction to Reading Communities: Processes and Formations

Sedo, DeNel Rehberg

doi:10.1057/9780230308848_1

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“…Online book clubs are technical extensions of offline discussion groups (Foasberg, ; Scharber, ; Sedo, ), with readers sharing book reviews or recommendations “regardless of factors such as cultural or socio‐economic background, gender, reading level or geography” (Sedo, , p. 8). Online book reading initiatives may also be harnessed for community building (Harder, Howard, & Sedo, ) as well as for library activities and book promotion by publishers (Harder et al, ) and can allow direct interactions with a book's author (Gruzd & Sedo, ).…”

Section: Social Activities Related To Book Readingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Goodreads: A social network site for book readers

Thelwall

Kousha

2016

Asso for Info Science & Tech

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Goodreads is an Amazon-owned book-based social web site for members to share books read, review books, rate books and connect with other readers. Goodreads has tens of millions of book reviews, recommendations and ratings that may help librarians and readers to select relevant books. This article describes a first investigation of the properties of Goodreads users, using a random sample of 50,000 members. The results suggest that about three quarters of members with a public profile are female, and that there is little difference between male and female users in patterns of behaviour, except for females registering more books and rating them less positively. Goodreads librarians and super users engage extensively with most features of the site. The absence of strong correlations between book-based and social usage statistics (e.g., numbers of friends, followers, books, reviews, and ratings) suggests that members choose their own individual balance of social and book activities and rarely ignore one at the expense of the other. Goodreads is therefore neither primarily a book-based website nor primarily a social network site but is a genuine hybrid, social navigation site.

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Section: Social Activities Related To Book Readingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Goodreads: A social network site for book readers

Thelwall

Kousha

2016

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“…This book deals with the history and development of children's periodicals in Europe and presents detailed analyses of specific magazines and their cultural contexts. According to Sedo (2011), European children's magazines have become more widespread and sophisticated these years. Magazines for both boys and girls were very popular during this period.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Adventure stories that may be of interest to children are included in the magazines. Sedo (2011) also states that political messages entered children's magazines within the framework of the above developments. Magazines have begun to include articles and stories that reflect Europe's turbulent political climate and address the social and political issues of the day.…”

Section: Discussion Conclusion and Recommendationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Evaluation of Olgun Children’s Journal (1935) within the Scope of Adding Nation and History Awareness to Children

AYANTAŞ,

DÖNMEZ

2024

AÜEBFD

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This study sought to evaluate Olgun Children’s Journal (1935) within the scope of the efforts of adding nation and history awareness to children by using document examination which is among qualitative research methods. Olgun Children’s Journal which was issued for the first time on 16 February 1935 was a children’s journal which ended its publication life with its 13th and final issue on 25 May 1935. Specific sections of the journal in every issue were Let’s Learn the Statesmen of the Nation, One Mustafa for a Thousand Enemies, Cinema with Art, In the Animal Land, The Scholar Investigating, Adventures of Yumurcak, Our Articles and Riddles-Puzzles. At the end of the study, we observed that the journal personally reflected the understanding and conditions of the era (1930s) and was on the prowl of imbuing children with the opinions of national unity and solidarity in line with the perspective and understanding of the era. The study found that the journal included sub texts related to the Surname Act (1934) in society and efforts of simplification of language, mentioned the Dardanelles War and the War of Independence, stressed the virtues of the Turkish Nation and significance of Atatürk as a leader and tried to raise nation and history awareness in children by this way. The journal accepted children as adults, stressed that children had an ability of achieving even the most difficult tasks and tried to raise consciousness reflecting the historical context in the Turkish children. In addition, the journal designed specific sections for children to have fun and enjoy themselves.

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“…55 For Lynd and Walpole -simultaneously reading and appraising the same manuscripts while anticipating the views of each other in correspondence -their written discourse is evidence of a shared reading practice and community where, as DeNel Rehberg Sedo writes, a reading community 'is comprised of relationships' and 'can be conceptualized as emotional, psychological and/or social'. 56 The dialogic decision-making traced in the letters about Book Society nominations between Lynd and Walpole is comparable to the nuanced, highly charged, and collective decisions about book selection made by reading groups today. 57 A lively letter from Walpole to Lynd on 4 April 1933 for instance, outlines his own thoughts on that month's manuscripts before anticipating Lynd's reading and reaction with the affirmative exclamation: 'So now tell me what you think!'.…”

Section: Keats Grove Hampstead London Nw3mentioning

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‘So now tell me what you think!’: Sylvia Lynd's reading and reviewing – The collaborative work of an interwar middlewoman

Wilson

2019

Literature & History

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This article highlights Sylvia Lynd (1888–1952) as an important interwar ‘middlewoman’, arguing that Lynd's professional work and identity as book club judge, reviewer, publisher's reader and literary hostess, had a significant impact on contemporary print culture. It argues that the networks around the Lynds’ set in Hampstead are an important, if overlooked, part of ‘the social spaces and staging venues’ where literary modernism happened (in Lawrence Rainey's influential terms). With a methodology grounded in feminist research and recoveries of early twentieth-century women's diverse contributions to print culture, the core of the essay considers Lynd's work for the Book Society selection committee and the Prix Femina Vie Heureuse Anglais. Making use of publisher's records and other archival sources, including Lynd's unpublished diaries and correspondence, the article sets out Lynd's shared reading and decision-making with Hugh Walpole on manuscripts for the Book Society as a dialogic, collaborative reading practice, placing her work as book club judge as part of a long history of sociable reading practices. The article further explores the textual implications of Lynd's work as book club judge and shows how her editorial interventions made a tangible, documented impact on the pre-publication history of literary texts, in this case George Blake's The Shipbuilders (1935) and Eric Linklater's Juan in America (1931). This work of editorial revisions/censorship is an aspect of the textual interventions of celebrity book club judges that is not well known, and that archival research gives us unique access to.

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An Introduction to Reading Communities: Processes and Formations

Cited by 9 publications

References 4 publications

Goodreads: A social network site for book readers

Goodreads: A social network site for book readers

Evaluation of Olgun Children’s Journal (1935) within the Scope of Adding Nation and History Awareness to Children

‘So now tell me what you think!’: Sylvia Lynd's reading and reviewing – The collaborative work of an interwar middlewoman

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