Illusions of a “Bond”: tagging cultural products across online platforms

Desrochers, Nadine; Laplante, Audrey; Martin, Kim; Quan‐Haase, Anabel; Spiteri, Louise F.

doi:10.1108/jd-09-2015-0110

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“…There are plenty of reading cataloguing and social labelling communities, each one with its own different cultural rules and labelling practices (Desrochers, Laplante, Martin, Quan-Haase, & Spiteri, 2016): Anobii, Lectorati, Leoteca, LibraryThing, etc. Therefore, Goodreads (owned by Amazon) has been selected among all of them as the scenario for this analysis, as it is also the world's most important reading cataloguing community.…”

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Spanish Reading Influences in Goodreads: Participation, Experience and Canon Proposed

García-Roca

2020

J. New Approaches Educ. Res.

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Nobody doubts the importance of digital influencers when it comes to the selection and acquisition of new products and services. In the specific field of literary reading, literary blogs, booktubers and specialized websites that act as prescribers of reading stand out. This study presents a descriptive research model in which a multivariate analysis of the main sociodemographic characteristics, assessments, readings and activities developed by the 100 most important reading influencers in Spain was carried out. For this purpose, data were taken from the most widely used reading cataloguing platform, i.e. Goodreads. It was found to be mainly about women with a developed reading habit and with an effervescent and extensive experience in literary blogs, thematic social networks, etc. In addition, the results show that the more influencers evolve as readers the more demanding they become more in their assessments, which in turn translates into greater influence. Influencers’ recognition in the platform, therefore, is subject to their reading experience, critical capacity and personal criteria. Finally, it was learned that the canon of authors and works best valued by these relevant users is heterogeneous, although works and authors related to Young Adult Literature and bestsellers predominate to a certain extent.

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Section: Previous Researchmentioning

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Spanish Reading Influences in Goodreads: Participation, Experience and Canon Proposed

García-Roca

2020

J. New Approaches Educ. Res.

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“…Goodreads is a social network site, a place for documenting books read and a place for finding and evaluating new books through others' ratings and reviews (e.g., Desrochers, Laplante, Martin, Quan-Haase, & Spiteri, 2016;Pecoskie & Hill, 2015;Zuccala, Verleysen, Cornacchia, & Engels, 2015). It provides some traditional library services, such as Readers' Advisory "readalike" recommendations (Trott, 2011).…”

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The reading background of Goodreads book club members: a female fiction canon?

Thelwall

Bourrier

2019

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Purpose Despite the social, educational and therapeutic benefits of book clubs, little is known about which books participants are likely to have read. In response, the purpose of this paper is to investigate the public bookshelves of those that have joined a group within the Goodreads social network site. Design/methodology/approach Books listed as read by members of 50 large English-language Goodreads groups – with a genre focus or other theme – were compiled by author and title. Findings Recent and youth-oriented fiction dominate the 50 books most read by book club members, whilst almost half are works of literature frequently taught at the secondary and postsecondary level (literary classics). Whilst J.K. Rowling is almost ubiquitous (at least 63 per cent as frequently listed as other authors in any group, including groups for other genres), most authors, including Shakespeare (15 per cent), Goulding (6 per cent) and Hemmingway (9 per cent), are little read by some groups. Nor are individual recent literary prize winners or works in languages other than English frequently read. Research limitations/implications Although these results are derived from a single popular website, knowing more about what book club members are likely to have read should help participants, organisers and moderators. For example, recent literary prize winners might be a good choice, given that few members may have read them. Originality/value This is the first large scale study of book group members’ reading patterns. Whilst typical reading is likely to vary by group theme and average age, there seems to be a mainly female canon of about 14 authors and 19 books that Goodreads book club members are likely to have read.

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“…We based our description of the networks (Table 1) on the information provided on GR by Manso (2015), Desrochers (2016) and Thelwall / Kousha (2017), and that provided on LT by Richards (2013) and Laspa (2013). We used information provided by Domènech (2016) Allows bibliographic records to be imported and exported.…”

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Herausgeber

2019

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Pròleg 9 d'indicadors fiables per mesurar-ne l'impacte real dels llibres: Ratings, Average Ratings i, sobretot, altmetrics.Aquestes conclusions són només, però, un breu tast de les investigacions circumscrites a la línia de recerca a partir de la qual es vertebra el present monogràfic. Fet i fet, us invitem a conéixer al detall, a través dels articles que ara vénen, les vicissituds i peculiaritats dels principals espais públics virtuals que promocionen la lectura.

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Illusions of a “Bond”: tagging cultural products across online platforms

Cited by 6 publications

References 47 publications

Spanish Reading Influences in Goodreads: Participation, Experience and Canon Proposed

Spanish Reading Influences in Goodreads: Participation, Experience and Canon Proposed

The reading background of Goodreads book club members: a female fiction canon?

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