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Creating the Website 'Connections: A Young Adult Science Fiction and Fantasy Author Social Networking Database'
Get PDFSocial networking websites provide a unique opportunity to allow authors to talk with their readers, generate interest in their works, and build their fan bases. However, these profiles are scattered across the Internet and may not be easy for readers to find. This paper describes the process of creating the website 'Connections: A Young Adult Science Fiction and Fantasy Author Social Networking Database' as a resource to fill this gap and examines how authors are using social networking websites to connect with their readers
Transformative Encounters in the Works of Neil Gaiman
Get PDFThis study attempts to address the lack of research in the area of comic books and graphic novels, popular materials, and psychological approaches to literature. Literature on the topic is generally lacking, and is characterized by the need to provide evidence in favor of the scholarly merit of popular materials and previously neglected methodologies. The author used the works of Joseph Campbell to inform a content analysis of a sample of the works of British author Neil Gaiman in order to determine how characters are transformed by encounters. The method was qualitative in nature, and drew from research in the fields of education, psychology, literature studies, and librarianship. The study found that the transformations in Gaiman's works supported the concept that there is a lack of distinction between humans and mythical beings, and Gaiman fits Campbell's criteria for a modern mythmaker
Depictions of Slaves and Slavery in Young Adult Historical Fiction as Compared by Ethnicity of the Author: a Content Analysis
Get PDFThis paper examines the role an author's ethnicity plays in the depiction of slaves and the portrayal of slavery in historical fiction. In this study, five books by African American authors and five books by white authors published between 1981 and 2001 were subjected to latent content analysis. This study concluded that while authors of both races universally condemn slavery, there is a difference in the ways the write about the institution. African Americans focus on character development as affected by slavery, but white authors focus on the horrific issues surrounding slavery
Traits and Stereotypes of Male Protagonists in high fantasy novels as compared by gender of the author: A content analysis
Get PDFThis paper examines the roles author's gender plays in the physical and personality development of male protagonists in high fantasy literature. Five books by female authors and five books by male authors published between 1990 and 1998 were subjected to latent content analysis in this study. This study concludes that females focus on describing the physical characteristics of males, but male authors focus more on personality development
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
A Content Analysis of the Young Adult Library Services Association's Michael L. Printz Award Winners and the Eva H. Perry Regional Public Library's Mock Printz Book Club Winners: What is the Difference Between the Books Young Adults Choose and the Books Adults Choose For Young Adults?
Get PDFThis study describes a latent content analysis of eleven young adult novels to answer the question, what are the differences between the books young adults select for themselves as examples of quality literature and the books adults select for them. In examining this question the author analyzed the seven winning books selected by YALSA's Printz Award Selection Committee and compared them to the six books selected by the Eva Perry Mock Printz Book Club at the Eva Perry Regional Public Library in Apex, NC. The findings suggest that YALSA's Printz Selection committee selects novels with a semi-political agenda in mind and with the intention of encouraging advances in the field of young adult publishing. The Eva Perry Mock Printz Book Club selects novels that meet particular adolescent developmental needs, that share a common theme, (the protagonist's desire to be mothered) and a common grade level readability score, (the 6th grade)
The Graphic Novel Ratings Game: Publisher Ratings and Librarian Self-rating
Get PDFGraphic materials such as comic books, graphic novels and manga are an expanding section within most library collections. This study defines graphic materials and examines the role of ratings systems and subjective rating assignment by librarians in the acquisition and collection process. While publishers of such graphic materials provide rating systems for librarians to use when making acquisition and placement decisions, these rating systems are not uniform. This leads to the librarian relying upon professional judgment along with review resources and knowledge of the community served by the library. The author has concluded that librarians self-rate graphic materials consistent with the publisher ratings 50% of the time. Data also shows that a further 30% of the time librarians will rate graphic materials for a younger age than the publishers. Misplacement in the public library, according to the interview information, is a rare occurrence.Master of Science in Library Scienc
Methods Ten Year Olds Use To Select Reading Material
Get PDFThis study describes a series of focus group interviews of ten year olds placed in the media center of an elementary school in central North Carolina. The interviews were conducted to determine the different methods ten year olds use to select reading material. The methods the students used to select reading material were: reading the blurb on the back of the book or a section in the book, looking at the title, looking for a particular author, looking at the cover, by the book's topic or genre, by the language the book is written in, using the computer to find books, by peer recommendation, and by browsing. Almost none of the participants asked a librarian or another adult to help them select reading material
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
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