Community Of Readers Research Articles

Struktur Isi Argumen dalam Teks Argumentasi Siswa Tahap Operasi Formal

Text is the embodiment of one's ideas in written language that can be read and understood by the reading community. Argumentation is basically an embodiment of discourse. This study was conducted to determine the structure of the argument content in the students' argumentative essays in the formal operation stage by describing the research findings. The approach used in this study is a qualitative approach with the Miles and Huberman analysis model. The data of this research is in the form of a fragment of the student's argumentative text. This data was obtained from students' assignments to write arguments their teachers had given. In collecting data, the method used is the method of listening. The techniques used are free listening and conversation, documentation, and note-taking. The data analysis of this research uses the communication content analysis model. Based on the analysis results, it was found that the structure of the argument content of the students in the formal operation stage consisted of four structures. The four content structures are (1) deductive complex content structure, (2) inductive complex content structure, (3) deductive simple content structure, and (4) deductive complex simple content structure.

Mainstreaming Religious Moderation Through Islamic Literature

Reading rooms filled with Islamic literature are one of the dominant factors causing the hardening of religious understanding in post-reform Indonesia. This research aimed to examine the roles played by the Gerakan Islam Cinta in mainstreaming religious moderation through popular Islamic literature. Based on interviews, participatory observations, and content analysis, we argue that popular Islamic literature is an essential instrument in the mainstreaming of religious moderation in Indonesia. The sustainability of this type of Islamic literature is important because it balances the massive conservative Islamic literature. It is precisely at this point that the Gerakan Islam Cinta plays a dual role as producer and distributor of dozens of books known as the Islamic Love series. This series of books has become a reference for the community, especially young people, in understanding a version of Islam which is friendly and peaceful. The Gerakan Islam Cinta also disseminates these books online and for free, conducts roadshows and book reviews in various cities, and initiates reading clubs in cooperation with various organizations, grassroots reading communities, and youth activists of peace in several cities in Indonesia.
 Keywords: religious moderation, Islamic literature, Gerakan Islam Cinta

Narratives, Nerdfighters, and New Media by Jennifer Burek Pierce

Reviewed by: Narratives, Nerdfighters, and New Media by Jennifer Burek Pierce Gretchen Papazian (bio) Jennifer Burek Pierce. Narratives, Nerdfighters, and New Media. U of Iowa P, 2020. Narratives, Nerdfighters, and New Media is an important book. It explores the emergence, growth, and undertakings of the vast, cross-media reading community (estimated membership is in the millions) known as the Nerdfighters that formed around the efforts of John and Hank Green in 2007 through YouTube and then extended into online forums, charitable events, a podcast, and other multimedia ventures with the dual purposes of trying to do awesome things and fighting against "world suck." More significantly, it grapples with ways to think about and discuss the phenomenon of online reader collectives, drawing attention to a significant, we-are-living-through-it shift in the history of reading. The challenges inherent in the formidable task that Pierce sets for her work are not always met well, but her efforts to [End Page 252] figure out how to talk about a kind of reading community that is both novel and constantly transforming makes for a very worthwhile read for graduate students, seasoned scholars, and even those with a more general interest in the topics and communities it discusses. On the whole, while NNNM1 notes its interest in the larger topics of readers, the history of reading practices, contemporary online reading communities, and reading habits in the twenty-first century, it is primarily concerned with discussing the Nerdfighter community: its formation, its demographics, its figurations and refigurations, its activities, its philosophies, its locations, its workings, etc. In other words, if one is looking for a book that might try to explain or explore reading and readers—especially young adult and/or newly adult readers—in relation to new media habits, this book might disappoint. However, if one reads the work as a case study of a particular online, storycentered community, the book has much to offer. The introduction lays out its theory of why a group of readers has amassed around John and Frank Green's various kinds of social media. Arguing that "Nerdfighteria" is not merely a fan phenomenon but rather a way of being and knowing, Pierce draws attention to the group as a community that has a particular identity and set of practices, as well as existing in particular spaces and kinds of spaces. Extrapolating from narratologist Gerard Genette's discussion of epitextual materials and their influence on reading experiences, as well as drawing from fan studies and scholarship on readers and how to study them, Pierce suggests that the Nerdfighter community offers an exceptional but also perhaps representative snapshot of contemporary reading as a vibrant and lively activity. The remainder of the book develops these claims in relation to various aspects. Chapter 1 attempts to define the nature and parameters of the Nerdfighter community, arguing that the Green brothers' collective of readers is not simply a frivolous fan group but is in fact a serious community that engages in discussion of books and, more extensively even, the topics raised by young adult books, including but not limited to important questions about morality. Chapter 2 looks more at the demographics of the community, while also discussing the range of the Green brothers' social media (the YouTube Vlogbrothers videos, their more recent Dear Hank & John podcast, and their more explicitly educational endeavors, SciShow and Crash Course) to highlight the of diffusion of spaces the Nerdfighteria manifests around. Chapter 3 examines the commercial media environment within which Nerdfighteria itself is situated, and how both the Green brothers and the Nerdfighter community negotiate its complexities. Importantly, for example, Pierce lays out concerns about potential fan exploitation in relation to online platforms, while showing how the brothers and the Nerdfighter community nullify the [End Page 253] potential issues through fiscal practices oriented toward community service and philanthropy. Chapter 4 turns attention to what Nerdfighters read and how they read, clarifying that, while many Nerdfighters were brought to this community through John Green's young adult novels, quite a few were not. Here, Pierce wants to show that the Nerdfighteria is a genuine community of readers with broad interests and tastes—not merely a group...

.Compostmodernism: Textual Machinery Through Typography and Materiality in Mark Z. Danielewski’s The Familiar

This article defines “.compostmodernism” as a successor to postmodernism by explicating of Mark Z. Danielewski’s The Familiar as an example of .compostmodern textual machinery—a system of two interconnected “machines” (one abstract, the other physical) that are co-dependent and mobilized by the novel’s typography and materiality. Beginning by illustrating how The Familiar exemplifies .compostmodern textual machinery through its experimental typography which becomes the visual manifestation of literary cyber-consciousness, this article indicates how, in visually manifesting character cyber-consciousness, the novel’s typography actualizes the digitality of character interiority, ultimately drawing attention to the work’s status not only as literary artifice, but also as textual machinery. The demands of such experimental typography instantiate a physical relationship between reader and codex that emphasizes the novel’s materiality and requires the reader to engage with the text both physically and digitally. Ultimately, this digital engagement incorporates the internet not only as a crucial supplement for the reader to seek reference, translation apps, and supplementary (albeit obscure) Danielewski publications, but also as a medium for the reader to supplement the novel via social media output and online reading communities.

Eyzehu M'koman Shel Zevakhim? [What is the Site of the Ritual Sacrifice?] Yiddish Writers Encounter the Chicago Meatpacking Industry

Eyzehu M'koman Shel Zevakhim? [What is the Site of the Ritual Sacrifice?]Yiddish Writers Encounter the Chicago Meatpacking Industry Jessica Kirzane (bio) Yiddish poet Pessie Pomerantz-Honigbaum's poem "Vintn" ["Winds"] depicts Chicago by following the path of winds that sweep through the city, rushing in from Lake Michigan where the poet loves to stroll, making their way through the smog of the city and back out of the dense cityscape to its wide parks at the city's outskirts.1 The poem begins and ends with beauty and natural expanse, the pleasures of a walk on the shoreline, the elegant symphony of the winds dancing through the parks. In its center, though, winds howl through crowded, dusty streets, past the "raykh zaln" [halls of wealth], presumably the business district and stock exchange, and the "geshtank fun dayne shlakht-heyzer" [stink of your slaughterhouses].2 According to the poem, the central features of the city itself were these twin entities: wealth and poverty, capitalism and industrialism, steel-framed skyscrapers and stockyards. Pomerantz-Honigbaum's concise description of what she understood to be the emblematic features of her city was consistent with the way the city was represented and understood within and beyond Yiddish-language writing in the early twentieth century. For Yiddish writers, the word "Chicago" was often synonymous with the stockyards or shekht-heyzer [slaughterhouses] with which they closely associated the city and its role in American industrialism and the abuses of capitalism.3 In the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the stockyards of Chicago stood as symbols of the new industrial economy of America, its modern innovation and its human costs, not just for Yiddish writers, of course, but the world over. The "Square Mile" of packinghouses and animal pens was encircled by railroad lines that pumped livestock into the Chicago market and meat out into the world. Visitors to [End Page 31] Chicago by rail were immediately confronted by this spectacle of thousands of cattle, calves, hogs, and sheep being led to the famed meatpacking plants.4 The stockyards were a tourist destination that defined Chicago for a fascinated public in the post-Civil War era and beyond.5 Together with the wealth of the city's wide boulevards and skyscrapers, the stockyards came to be central to an understanding of the economic role of the city, and the meaning of modern American capitalism itself. Yiddish writers, whether visiting or living in Chicago, were taken by the spectacle of the meatpacking industry, where the efficient factory-style slaughter attracted thousands of tourists eager to witness the processes that constituted the pinnacle of modern human productivity. They expressed their impressions of the factory in a distinctly Yiddish and Jewish idiom, drawing upon Jewish language, ritual, and memory, as well as shared leftist politics, to represent the stockyards for their reading communities. By examining Yiddish writers' views of the Chicago stockyards, one can explore the Jewishly inflected ways that writers approached their participation in a popular tourist activity that is not specifically understood as a Jewish or immigrant activity. One can also discover the ways they participated in broader American literary culture and linked it to global Yiddish politics and writing. An examination of these sources demonstrates how the Yiddishreading community understood and judged the social and political landscape of America using the interpretive tools and cultural understandings they embedded in their shared Yiddish language and culture. An examination of these sources also illuminates what seems to have been a common phenomenon of Yiddish writing about Chicago—that it was often describing a transient experience. Chicago boasted a large Yiddish-speaking community, much of it concentrated around the city's Near West Side, with a wealth of Yiddish newspapers, charitable and relief organizations, schools, and other institutions. But a significant percentage of Yiddish writing depicting Chicago was penned by tourists, visiting literary figures giving readings or lectures, and individuals who spent only a short time in Chicago before moving on to other Yiddish communities such as Los Angeles.6 A focus on Chicago Yiddish writing could easily overlook these perspectives in order to paint a picture of Chicago Yiddish writers from among the literary figures and cultural activists living...

Management Of Reading Community Pelosok Bumi In Karawang Regency

Aims to describe planning, organizing, and supervising reading community. The concept of George Robert Terry (2007:31) "Management as a typical process, carried out to determine and achieve the goals that have been set by the use of human resources and other resources." Qualitative research approach. Data collection techniques are observation, interviews, and documentation. The research subjects were one manager, one volunteer, and two residents student of reading community Pelosok Bumi, Karawang. Analysis of the research obtained there are four stages in the management begins with the identification of learning needs in the planning stage. Organizing is done by grouping the teaching staff into study groups. The implementation started on Saturday. The media, the strategies and methods used were returned to the volunteers. Supervision is carried out by going directly into the study group and immediately after the implementation there is a learning evaluation meeting. Suggestions Institutions can add volunteers so that the learning situation can be conducive.Keywords: Management, Reading Community

Research on the Usefulness of Online Reading Community Reviews Based on IAM-I Model

Research on the Usefulness of Online Reading Community Reviews Based on IAM-I Model

Ex sanctorum patrum certissimis testimoniis: Reading the Greek Fathers in Latin in Early Medieval Monasteries

Monastic reading communities in early medieval Europe had a voracious appetite for the works of the Greek church fathers in Latin translation. This article examines the evidence for the availability of translated Greek patristics in western abbeys from the fifth to the ninth centuries through a survey of surviving manuscripts and monastic library inventories. While there was not yet a canon of officially recognized ‘fathers of the eastern church’ in early medieval Europe, this article shows how western monks favoured five of the six Greek patriarchs singled out as authoritative in the sixth-century Decretum Gelasianum. In terms of genre, they strongly preferred the homiletical writings of eastern Christian authors over their polemical works, because sermons and biblical homilies had greater utility as tools for teaching and preaching. Lastly, this article highlights the fact that the most widely copied Greek church father in early medieval Europe was also the most notorious and suspect thinker in the eastern church: Origen of Alexandria, whose skill as an author of biblical commentaries outweighed his notoriety as a condemned theologian in the eyes of western monks.

Issues of Reading Habits Among Malaysian Students: School and Home Perceptions

Abstract: The purpose of this study is to analyze issues of reading habits among school students in Malaysia. This study used a qualitative method by conducting semi-structured interviews with school leaders, teachers, and parents in urban and rural areas. Sample selection used the purposive sampling method. Criteria in selecting study participants were position, teaching experience, background related to students' reading habits, and willingness to participate in this study. The findings of this study were analyzed using thematic methods. The analysis of the issues in urban areas resulted in five (5) themes for urban areas, while there were nine (9) themes for rural areas. These themes have been arranged according to the priority of the issue. The themes of issues faced in urban areas consist of (i) Students' Attitudes and Reading Awareness, (ii) Current Reading Programs Need to Be Improved, (iii) Changes in Reading Styles and Technological Developments, (iv) Aspects of Students' Environment That Do Not Support Reading Habits and (v) No Specific Time Allocation for Reading Activities. The results of the analysis of the findings of the study with participants in rural areas consist of (i) Lack of Family Support, (ii) No facilities, (iii) Students' Attitudes and Reading Awareness, (iv) Lack of Interesting Resources and Reading Materials, (v) Limited Reading Resources, (vi) Lack of Teacher Training on Reading Practice Skills, (vii) Aspects of Students' Environment That Do Not Support Reading Habits, (viii) Current Reading Program Need Improvement, (ix) No Clear Guidelines or Profile. The results of this study can serve as a reference, especially at the stakeholder level, such as for the District Education Office, School Administrators, Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) as well as for policymakers who may utilize the findings of this study to identify and improve the community and students in Malaysia as a reading community.

Adapting Jane Eyre for the Celebrity Book Club

Abstract Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine (2017), the debut novel by Scottish writer Gail Honeyman, represents an ingenious adaptation of Jane Eyre that appeals strongly to modern book clubs. Eleanor Oliphant’s intertextual approach is not a straightforward translation of the events of Charlotte Brontë’s novel but rather a thoughtful transformation of its themes and characters. Moreover, the allusions to Jane Eyre are interwoven so thoroughly throughout Eleanor Oliphant that a reader with any degree of familiarity with Brontë’s novel will notice them and be able to comment on them. Eleanor Oliphant was the flagship selection for Reese Witherspoon’s enormously popular book club, “Reese’s Book Club,” which depends on social media to promote her selections, including Goodreads, an Amazon-owned book review platform. These social media platforms’ rating scales and digestible blurbs, as well as the imprimatur of a well-liked celebrity, provide the opportunity to choose middlebrow books quickly that the reading community will enjoy discussing with their friends. Eleanor Oliphant’s success provides a compelling model for authors looking to reimagine classic literature for modern audiences in addition to scholars looking to understand the appeal of popular fiction in our technologically oriented society.

Norms, affect and evaluation in the reception of literary translations in multilingual online reading communities

Abstract This article uses the Digital Opinions on Translated Literature (dioptra-l) corpus to study readers’ perceptions of and responses to translation in a naturalistic setting, focusing on the normative constructs or cognitive-evaluative templates they use to conceptualise, evaluate and respond to translations. We answer two main questions: (1) How visible, or salient, is the fact of translation to readers reading a translated literary text, and are there differences in the degree and nature of this visibility for different languages and translation directions? (2) What are the main concepts, and emotional and evaluative parameters that readers use to describe translated literary texts, and are there differences in these concepts and parameters when considered by different translation directionalities and genres? We make use of computational methods, including collocational network analysis, keyword analysis, and sentiment analysis to extract information about the salience of translation, and the networks of emotive and evaluative language that are used around the concept of translation. This forms the basis of our proposals for particular cognitive-evaluative templates.

Kajian Konseptual Multiliterasi Berbasis Pendidikan Karakter untuk Meningkatkan Kemampuan Literasi Siswa Sekolah Dasar

This study aims to describe a multiliteracy study based on character education as an effort to increase students literacy skills. With the descriptive qualitative literature review method, it is hoped that in the implementation it is expected that multiliterate students will increase and instil strong character education. The data collection technique carried out by the author is through a literature review and field study evaluation of literacy activities in the implementation of Gerakan Magelang Membaca (GMM) in the Regional Education and Culture Office, Grabag District, Magelang Regency. This conceptual study is expected to be useful for teachers as education stakeholders and other parties relevant to this study. The results of the discussion with the analysis of the study that the concept of multiliteracy has been integrated into the education unit level curriculum (KTSP). in the practice of learning, students have gotten used to doing various activities with the basic concepts of multiliteracy. Multiliteracy based on character education has been implemented through character values in the implementation of the school literacy movement. How to improve literacy skills of elementary school students, namely growing awareness of the importance of reading; read 15 minutes before teaching and learning activities (KBM); optimize the role of the library; and make simple writings; and form a reading community. Multiliteracy program with school literacy ability activities to positively shape character and uphold the character values of students so that this conceptual study contributes to improving student literacy.

Improvement Of The Community's Reading Literature Culture Through The Alfata Reading Home Belonged To Baroh Village Society

Technology and communication advancements have led in a decline in people's reading habits. It is necessary to conduct an activity that educates individuals about the benefits of family reading habits. The function of the school in fostering a reading literacy culture is not exclusive; it may be played by the community as well. The Reading House was founded with the assistance of institutional funding, corporate and religious donations, and community funds. The objective of this research is to detail numerous initiatives made by Alfata Reading House to enhance reading literacy culture. Alfata Reading House, Baroh Village, Pidie District, Pidie Regency, Aceh Province. This research was done at the Alfata Reading House, Baroh Village, Pidie District, Pidie Regency, Aceh Province. A qualitative descriptive study was employed to conduct this research. Data collecting methods included interviewing and observing. According to the procedures and strategies utilized for data collecting. Meanwhile, observations were made about the development of a reading literacy culture inside the Baroh Village community through the Alfata Reading House. This study made use of the following data analysis techniques: data reduction, data visualization, and conclusion drawing. The study's findings indicate that the Alfata Reading House routinely welcomes Nadhlatul Ulama schools in the Pidie area, connects with Nadhlatul Ulama branch leadership, and collaborates with parents.

Toward a (Queer) Reading Community: BookTok, Teen Readers, and the Rise of TikTok Literacies

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“I Don't Want a Book That's Going to Make Me Sad or Stressed Out, Especially in This Day and Age”: Fiction Reading (and Healing) in a Pandemic

AbstractTo understand the roles of fiction reading in mitigating readers' stress during the COVID‐19 pandemic, this study explores readers' motivations, preferences, and reading behaviors. Through an open‐ended online survey posted on social media platforms and an online reading community, the researchers collected 76 responses from adult fiction readers. Through qualitative coding, three prominent themes were identified: escapism, re‐reading behavior, and access and format. Readers actively escape into fictional worlds, often through re‐reading books, to cope with the pandemic. Also, cost and available channels of access shape readers' selection of fiction book format. These themes highlight elements of fiction reading that are pertinent to emotionally‐strained individuals, which can provide insight for reference and recommendation services. By advancing researchers' understanding of pleasure reading behaviors and the important selection criteria for fiction readers during stressful times, this study contributes to the body of knowledge in Readers Advisory (RA) and information behavior.

Augmented Reality for Supporting Adult-child Shared Reading

Abstract Augmented reality (AR) stories offer a new opportunity for parents and teachers at libraries and schools to explore electronic stories. Embedded with multimedia design, AR allows diverse paths of exploration in the story contexts for shared story-reading experiences among parents and children. In this study, parents in the reading community (a library and a school) were provided with AR guided support and a skill-building activity. Observations and in-depth interviews were conducted to collect qualitative data. Inductive analysis was used to summarize the findings. Results of the study were summarized in the following themes: Prior adult-child reading experiences; Novelty with AR reading; Parents’ scaffolding for using AR; Interactive reflective thinking from AR reading; Positive responses from learning of shared reading; and Parents’ suggestions and concerns. It was observed that the AR reflective reading approach encouraged parents to play an active role in guided reading. Children and parents were positive about their active participation in the AR-mediated exploratory reading context. With the AR guided support and skill-building activity, parents applied the scaffolded-reading skills in the AR reading intervention. The AR-mediated reading approach is promising and open to more dynamic design of interactive features.

Survive and Resist: The Definitive Guide to Dystopian Politics

Survive and Resist: The Definitive Guide to Dystopian Politics

Innovation on Literacy Habit Program for Madrasah Ibtidaiyah in Surabaya

The improvement of reading competence in Indonesia has not yet reached its maximum point. Indonesia’s achievements in a number of surveys also show poor results. Nevertheless, several cities in East Java have started to initiate the development of the literacy through various programs as an act of reflection on the findings of the previous surveys. In Surabaya, some programs have been initiated by goverment to cultivate literacy such as reading corner book review, book discussion, reading community, and others. These programs are aimed to increase reading interest (reading habit) of children in Surabaya. By using the Community Based Research (CBR) method, this research observed innovation as new programs about reading habit in the 27 Madrasah Ibtidaiyah in Surabaya. The author found that there are five stages of innovation (knowledge, persuasion, decision, implementation, and confirmation) were conducted by Madrasah Ibtidaiyah in Surabaya. The result indicates that all the stages have been done well by the library manager in Madrasah Ibtidaiyah in Surabaya. This can be seen from several aspects such as of the knowledge of the importance of literacy for their students, awareness to change for better future, and a decision to implement some new programs in the development of reading habit

“Fluffy Ruffles”: The Spectacular Comic Icon of Working Woman's Activity

Abstract The comic strip “Fluffy Ruffles” is little known today, but in 1907 it generated a national and transatlantic icon of the working New Woman in America. The hybrid narrative follows the protagonist's search for employment, which always concludes in failure due to the attention she receives from men in the vicinity. This paper asks how the comic situated motion, both in activity and restriction, as fundamental to female embodiment and spectacular subjectivity in the urban environment. The influence of “Fluffy Ruffles” is examined in the emulation and resistance it produced from the female reading community of The New York Herald.

Mechanisms for Interpretative Cooperation: Fan Theories in Virtual Communities.

This work focuses on analyzing fan theories as interpretive processes shared by users of virtual reading communities. Within these spaces of participatory culture, a complex strategy of interactions among its members is encouraged to formulate conjectures about the text's intentions and negotiate its degree of relevance. We have based our research on a methodology linked to the ethnography of reading. From a representative sample of the narrative universes of A Song of Ice and Fire and Harry Potter, the different modes of agreed collaborative textual interpretation are explored. The data show that within these communities of practice, three reading models are developed: predictive theories in which future narrative contents are inferred; explanatory theories in which narrative arcs are endowed and charged with meaning through the analysis of canon and, finally, alternative theories with a highly creative component in which the interpretative limits of the text are explored. Within these virtual communities, hermeneutical proposals are characterized by the activation of complex, heavily referenced literary argumentation to maintain semiosis active and expand the horizon of expectations of its members.