scholarly journals ‘Being in a knowledge space’: Information behaviour of cult media fan communities

2016 ◽  
Vol 43 (5) ◽  
pp. 649-664 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ludi Price ◽  
Lyn Robinson

This article describes the first two parts of a three-stage study investigating the information behaviour of fans and fan communities, focusing on fans of cult media. A literature analysis shows that information practices are an inherent and major part of fan activities, and that fans are practitioners of new forms of information consumption and production, showing sophisticated activities of information organisation and dissemination. A subsequent Delphi study, taking the novel form of a ‘serious leisure’ Delphi, in which the participants are not experts in the usual sense, identifies three aspects of fan information behaviour of particular interest beyond the fan context: information gatekeeping; classifying and tagging; and entrepreneurship and economic activity.

Author(s):  
S. Aukutsionek ◽  
S. Zhukov

The article presents the results of economic activity of Russian industrial enterprises in 2019, and provides forecasts for 2020. In general for the major part of the surveyed enterprises (REB’s respondents) 2019 turned out to be not worse than the previous year and judging by investment parameters even better. Forecasts for 2020 are not as optimistic as they were a year ago.


2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ludi Price ◽  
Lyn Robinson

PurposeThis article describes the third part of a three-stage study investigating the information behaviour of fans and fan communities, the first stage of which is described in the study by Price and Robinson (2017).Design/methodology/approachUsing tag analysis as a method, a comparative case study was undertaken to explore three aspects of fan information behaviour: information gatekeeping; classifying and tagging and entrepreneurship and economic activity. The case studies took place on three sites used by fans–Tumblr, Archive of Our Own (AO3) and Etsy. Supplementary semi-structured interviews with site users were used to augment the findings with qualitative data.FindingsThese showed that fans used tags in a variety of ways quite apart from classification purposes. These included tags being used on Tumblr as meta-commentary and a means of dialogue between users, as well as expressors of emotion and affect towards posts. On AO3 in particular, fans had developed a practice called “tag wrangling” to mitigate the inherent “messiness” of tagging. Evidence was also found of a “hybrid market economy” on Etsy fan stores. From the study findings, a taxonomy of fan-related tags was developed.Research limitations/implicationsFindings are limited to the tagging practices on only three sites used by fans during Spring 2016, and further research on other similar sites are recommended. Longitudinal studies of these sites would be beneficial in understanding how or whether tagging practices change over time. Testing of the fan-tag taxonomy developed in this paper is also recommended.Originality/valueThis research develops a method for using tag analysis to describe information behaviour. It also develops a fan-tag taxonomy, which may be used in future research on the tagging practices of fans, which heretofore have been a little-studied section of serious leisure information users.


Author(s):  
Е.В. Царева

В статье анализируется проблема автора в романе Дж. Барнса «Попугай Флобера». Проводится сравнение авторского начала в романе и в сборнике эссе Дж. Барнса “Something to Declare”. Доказывается связь между данными текстами. Анализируется фактический материал, представленный в сборнике эссе и в романе. Делается вывод о разнице представления материала в обоих текстах: в романе, в отличие от сборника эссе, есть альтернативные версии и вымышленные события. Кроме того, в романе автор вводит дополнительную повествовательную инстанцию — фигуру рассказчика по имени Джеффри Брэйтуэйт, используя ее как авторскую маску. От его имени рассказывается история путешествия героя по местам, связанным с жизнью и творчеством Флобера. Это составляет основную часть повествования, что подтверждается и заглавием романа. Рассказ о жизни самого Брэйтуэйта лаконичен и фрагментарен. В статье подробно анализируется образ рассказчика, выделяются два уровня или две повествовательные инстанции. Первый уровень, во многом транслирующий взгляды Дж. Барнса, может быть охарактеризован как литературоведческий, второй уровень связан с психологическими проблемами несчастливого в браке рассказчика, отсылающего читателя к образу Шарля Бовари, героя романа Флобера. В статье делается вывод о многоуровневом авторском начале в романе «Попугай Флобера». В сочетании с иронией и интертекстуальностью игра с авторским началом позволяет рассматривать роман Дж. Барнса «Попугай Флобера» как постмодернистский текст. The article analyzes the issue of authorial manifestations in J. Barnes’s novel “Flaubert’s Parrot”. It compares the manifestation of the authorial identity in the novel and in J. Barnes’s essay collection “Something to Declare”. The article proves that there is a definite congeniality between the two texts. However, the author of the article concludes that the manners of presenting information in the novel and essays are different, for the novel contains alternative versions of events and describes imaginary situations. Moreover, the author of the novel introduces a narrator, a certain Geoffrey Braithwaite who serves as his mouthpiece. It is the narrator who tells the story of the character’s travel across the places associated with Flaubert’s life and work. The travels constitute a major part of the narrative accounting for the title of the novel. The story of Braithwaite’s life is laconic and fragmentary. The article analyzes the image of the narrator and singles out two narrative levels, or aspects. The first level is largely associated with J. Barnes’s ideas and can be characterized as literary. The second level is related to Geoffrey Braithwaite, who experiences marital problems and reminds the readers of a Charles Bovary, a character of Flaubert’s novel. The article maintains that in the novel, the authorial identity is manifested at numerous levels. The author of the article underlines that due to the interplay of irony, intertextuality and authorial identity, J. Barnes’s novel “Flaubert’s Parrot” can be classified as postmodernist one.


Author(s):  
Thomas Lockwood

This chapter examines a decisive period in English literary history during the 1740s. This decade saw Samuel Richardson and Henry Fielding falling into an unplanned but extraordinary artistic competition that would open two vital channels of production in the novel-writing to come: in Richardson's case toward the representation of inward experience as if mediated by no external authority, in Fielding's toward worldly experience as if mediated wholly by an authoritative storyteller. They did not compete in the usual sense, but such was their entangled proximity it nevertheless seemed a contest. The decade began with Richardson's Pamela (1740), followed by Fielding's Joseph Andrews (1742), and ended with Richardson's Clarissa (1747–8) and Fielding's Tom Jones (1749). This second pair of novels has long since established itself as the more powerful of the two, rightly enough, but against any other novels of the period the first would easily command superiority.


2021 ◽  
pp. 3-6
Author(s):  
S. Aukutsionek ◽  
O. Zhukov

The article presents the results of economic activity of industrial enterprises of Russia in 2020, and provides forecasts for 2021. In general for the major part of the surveyed enterprises (REB’s respondents) 2020 turned out to be not worse than the previous year, and judging by several parameters even better. Forecasts for 2021 became les optimistic then they were a year ago.


1983 ◽  
Vol 63 (1) ◽  
pp. 125-134
Author(s):  
E. Sheffield ◽  
S. Laird ◽  
P.R. Bell

The events that accompany sporogenesis in the apogamous fern Dryopteris borreri parallel those seen in sexually reproducing ferns. Organelles dedifferentiate and redifferentiate, and form a discrete band across the equator of dyads; nuclear vacuoles and lipid spherosomes appear during prophase, and the major part of the ribosome population is removed and subsequently replaced during meiosis. Similar events have been found to occur during sporogenesis in mosses, gymnosperms and angiosperms, and therefore characteristic of the meiotic transition from sporophyte to gametophyte, even in the absence of a transition from diplophase to haplophase. The novel aspects of meiosis in D. borreri are largely those connected with the restitution event that precedes meiosis I and serves to maintain the sporophytic chromosome number throughout the life cycle of this fern. Pre-meiotic cells are regularly found to be cleaved by annular wall ingrowths, which traverse the cytoplasm but not the nuclei. The significance of these ingrowths in relation to theories concerning apogamy and plant cell division are discussed.


1974 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 21-28
Author(s):  
Mohamed A. El-Khawas

For a number of years the leaders of many African nations have voiced concern about the impact of foreign economic activity in the Portuguese-administered territories in southern Africa. They have argued that as long as a major part of Portugal's revenues are expended on military operations, particularly to suppress liberation movements in the territories, the income from such foreign economic activity helps Portugal maintain its grasp over the African territories.Largely as a result of African efforts, a United Nations resolution was passed in 1965 that recognized the relationship between foreign economic investment and Portugal's failure to grant self-determination and independence to the territories. The resolution requested that all specialized UN agencies refrain from granting assistance to Portugal and that all states refrain from any financial activity with Portugal that would impede the attainment of independence for Mozambique and Angola.Relatively little scholarly attention, however, has been paid to the role of foreign economic activity in the Portugueseadministered territories. Perhaps one reason for this is the paucity of hard data on the economic activity in each territory; another is the inherent difficulty of tracing the larger impact of any economic investment. Nevertheless, because of the importance of the issue some assessment seems warranted. This paper represents an attempt to contribute to that assessment. First, the dimensions of foreign economic investment in the territories are examined, with special emphasis on Mozambique and Angola during the decade following the outbreak of wars of liberation. Second, some comment is offered on the influence of such economic activity on efforts to attain independence within Portuguese Africa.


2021 ◽  
Vol 50 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-23
Author(s):  
Carina Rasse ◽  
Raymond W. Gibbs

Abstract This article explores how literary texts, in this case the novel “Catcher in the Rye” by J.D. Salinger, elicit metaphorical thinking as a major part of readers’ interpretive experiences. Our main argument is that metaphorical thinking does not arise only given our encounter with individual verbal metaphors, but emerges in various ways as part of our habitual forms of imaginative metaphorical understandings. Metaphorical thinking is closely linked to embodied simulation processes by which readers project themselves imaginatively into the lives of story characters. Embodied simulation processes capture readers’ rich phenomenological characteristics (e.g., immersion, absorption, transportation) of literary experience. Metaphorical thinking unfolds in hierarchical layers across different time spans during literary reading.


2016 ◽  
Vol 4 (7(SE)) ◽  
pp. 62-69
Author(s):  
Thirunavukarasu ◽  
Ashok Kumar ◽  
Suresh ◽  
Lilly Merline

In this paper, we develop the initial theory of complex fuzzy soft hypergroup by introducing the novel concept of complex fuzzy soft hypergroup, complex fuzzy soft hyperring.   Consequently, a major part of this work is dedicated to extend the theory of complex fuzzy soft set, complex fuzzy hypergroup. Complex fuzzy soft quasihypergroup, complex fuzzy soft semihypergroup and complex fuzzy soft subhypergroup also discussed in this paper.


Author(s):  
S. Aukutsionek ◽  
O. Zhukov

The article presents the results of economic activity of Russian industrial enterprises in 2020, and provides forecasts for 2021. In general, for the major part of the surveyed enterprises (REB‟s respondents) the year 2020 turned out to be not worse than the previous year and judging by several parameters it was even better. Forecasts for 2021 became noticeably less optimistic than they were a year ago.


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