Anime-zing in North Carolina: Library Views of Anime Fans

Exner, Nina

doi:10.3776/ncl.v70i1.324

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“…A discussion of the social aspects of comics reading would not be complete without acknowledging the popular notion that comics readership exists hand-in-hand with fandom, an idea that libraries in the U.S. have worked to adopt to their advantage (Exner, 2012; Schneider and Cannon, 2020) to garner patron interest. Fandom, especially at it relates to comics, suggests that individuals interested in a particular cultural artifact not only enjoy the that artifact but also take part in creating around that artifact as well.…”

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confidence: 99%

“It’s not something I’ve really thought about ‘til now’”: The social aspects of U.S. emerging adults’ comics reading histories

Moeller

2021

Journal of Librarianship and Information Science

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The common image of a reader is that of a person alone with a book, but reading is actually a social activity. The purpose of this study was to examine the ways in which social aspects influenced a group of emerging adults’ comics reading when they were children and/or teens. Data was collected by surveying and conducting semi-structured interviews with 34 emerging adults in the Southeast region of the United States about their comics reading histories. The research findings describe who the participants felt had the most impact on their comics reading, as well as the extent to which the participants felt that they belonged to a community of comics readers. Significantly, the participants’ notion of comics readers as “nerds” emerged from the data, which the participants largely connected to gender, and which participant Lauren noted, “It’s not something I’ve really thought about ‘til now.’” The implications of these findings suggest that some of these participants felt that there was a social cost to comics reading. Suggestions for making comics reading more accessible for more readers are discussed.

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Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%