“I’m a Marvel Girl”: Exploration of the Selection Practices of Comic Book Readers

Serantes, Lucia Cedeira

doi:10.29173/cais751

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“…Titles are in physical proximity to others that have influenced them or with which they are in conversation, creating a context for understanding the books. Similarly, in her study of comic-book selection practices, Serantes (2009) points to how customers experience the arrangement of stores as facilitating browsing and leading them to new titles.…”

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Distribution Matters: Feminist Bookstores as Cultural Interaction Spaces

Liddle

2018

Cultural Sociology

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To investigate the historical case of North American feminist bookstores, I use archival materials, interviews, and surveys to consider how cultural distribution sites affect the acquisition and interpretation of cultural objects. The findings point to the importance and variety of distributor conditions, including physical space, atmosphere, bookseller characteristics, stock, and audience members. I develop the concept of the cultural interaction space, defined as a location where a distributor, its cultural objects, and its audience converge. These spaces provide opportunities for interaction, observation, and experimentation with both tangible and intangible cultural materials, as well as for identity formation and the development of group solidarity. Future research should consider how variations in cultural distributors and in cultural interaction spaces affect audience reception, interpretation, and use of cultural objects.

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Distribution Matters: Feminist Bookstores as Cultural Interaction Spaces

Liddle

2018

Cultural Sociology

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Understanding complex casual leisure information needs: an analysis of search requests for books, games, movies and music

Bogers,

Gäde,

Koolen

et al. 2024

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PurposeIn this paper, we introduce the CRISPS (CRoss-domaIn relevance aSPects Scheme) coding scheme for complex information needs in the four leisure domains of books, games, movies and music. It categorizes the relevance aspects people consider when searching for these resources. The coding scheme and findings help search engines to better support complex information needs, both by prioritizing which aspects are easier to classify automatically and by determining which information sources should be considered.Design/methodology/approachA cross-domain classification scheme for relevance aspects and information needs in casual leisure domains (CRISPS) is developed and applied. The paper provides the documentation of the scheme development and annotation process as well as a detailed, large-scale analysis of 2000 requests (500 per domain) and relevance aspects for four domains as expressed in complex search requests in everyday life information seeking posted to online forums.FindingsWe identify and discuss relevance aspect frequencies, information need types and the described search process of the requests. Furthermore, the coding scheme development and the annotation process are documented and reflected on.Originality/valueThis is the first categorization and analysis of complex information needs in these four leisure domains combined. The coding scheme and findings can be used to develop new types of search interfaces that incorporate the kinds of relevance aspects identified in the scheme, allowing to express complex needs in the form of structured queries.

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Extensions of Content Analysis in the Creation of Multimodal Knowledge Representations

Farmer

2018

Advances in Library and Information Science

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Information architecture is the structural design of shared information environments, optimizing users' interaction with that knowledge representation. This chapter explains knowledge representation and information architecture, focusing on comic arts' features for representing and structuring knowledge. Then it details information design theory and information behaviors relative to this format, also noting visual literacy. With this background, an expanded view of content analysis as a research method, combining information design to represent knowledge and information architecture within the context of comic arts, is explained and concretized. The chapter also recommends strategies for addressing knowledge acquisition and communication through effective knowledge representation.

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“I’m a Marvel Girl”: Exploration of the Selection Practices of Comic Book Readers

Cited by 3 publications

References 4 publications

Distribution Matters: Feminist Bookstores as Cultural Interaction Spaces

Distribution Matters: Feminist Bookstores as Cultural Interaction Spaces

Understanding complex casual leisure information needs: an analysis of search requests for books, games, movies and music

Extensions of Content Analysis in the Creation of Multimodal Knowledge Representations

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