京都大学 / 新制・課程博士 / 博士(情報学) / 甲第24930号 / 情博第841号 / 新制||情||141(附属図書館) / 京都大学大学院情報学研究科知能情報学専攻 / (主査)特定教授 黒橋 禎夫, 教授 河原 達也, 教授 鹿島 久嗣 / 学位規則第4条第1項該当 / Doctor of Informatics / Kyoto University / DFAM

This paper aims to investigate how audiobooks can be used didactically in the EFL classroom. The research questions are: “How do EFL students perceive and visualize the storyworld when listening to audiobooks?”, “Does EFL students’ comprehension differ when listening to an audiobook as opposed to reading a printed book”, and lastly, “What are the benefits of using audiobooks didactically in an EFL classroom?”. A mixed method has been used in conducting a survey with the participation of 30 ninth graders from Östergårdsskolan in Halmstad. The survey is divided into three parts where the first two parts are based on Neil Gaiman's novel The Graveyard Book and the third part focuses on the students’ attitudes towards audiobooks. This paper will draw on the theories of Judith Langer, Lars Elleström as well as those of Iben Have and Birgitte Stougaard Pedersen. The survey used in this paper is theoretically founded on Langer’s five stances of envisionment. The students were divided into two groups where the control group read a printed passage and the other group listened to the passage. The results indicate that the participants had a positive attitude towards audiobooks as they found such affordances as hearing the pronunciation as well as being able to multitask. Previous research indicates that there are didactical advantages of using audiobooks with students. This paper suggests that with the increased growth of digitization, audiobooks should be considered as a learning tool in the EFL classroom.

Serial Editions: Another Book of Books for the Chapman is a collection of chapbooks whose titles include First Cold Morning, River Music, Vow, Intimate Interactions of a Corollary ( w/ braille translations), My Soul From Yesterday & Another Abecedarian for the World. You may or might not get a postcard in the mail announcing its distribution, then, one chapbook at a time, as in serial comics, slowly collecting, only later to receive them all, collected in a single book object..

Syftet med kunskapsöversikten var att ta reda på hur högläsning i skolan kan användas som en språkutvecklande aktivitet av läraren och hur det påverkar eleverna. Genom att sökningar har genomförts i olika databaser framkom ett urval av två avhandlingar och sju vetenskapliga artiklar som kunskapsöversiktens resultat grundades på. Avhandlingarna och de vetenskapliga artiklarna var både nationella och internationella. För att sortera urvalet gjordes en tematisk innehållsanalys som resulterade i tre olika teman som resultatet byggde på. Dessa teman var: boksamtal, bokval och lärarens roll i högläsning. Det som framkom i resultatet var att högläsning i sig inte ger en språkutvecklande effekt utan att mycket ligger på lärarens arbete med det. Metoder som beskrevs som användbara och gynnsamma för att högläsning ska bli språkutvecklande var boksamtal och bokval, dock framkom det att inte alla typer av boksamtal och bokval ger en språkutvecklande effekt. Även här beskrevs att läraren har en viktig roll för att det ska bli språkutvecklande genom att exempelvis använda öppna frågor i boksamtal och variera genre i bokvalet. Genomförs högläsning på ett språkutvecklande sätt kan bland annat elevernas ordförråd, läsförståelse och hörförståelse utvecklas. / The purpose of this literature review was to examine how reading aloud in school can be used as a language development activity by the teacher and how it affects students. The results of this review were based on two dissertations and seven scientific articles, selected by searching in different databases. The dissertations and scientific articles were both national and international. A thematic analysis was made to categories the samples, which resulted in three themes being identified. These themes were book talks, book choice, and the teacher’s role in reading aloud. The results showed that reading aloud in itself does not have a language development effect, but instead it depends on the teacher’s work with the material. Book talk and book choice were described as useful and beneficial methods to make reading aloud language developing. However, it became clear that not all types of book talks and book choice were beneficial. The teacher’s important role in language development was again described, for example through the use of open questions in book talks and by varying the genre of the choice of book. If reading aloud is carried out in a language-developing way, the students´ vocabulary, reading comprehension and listening comprehension can be developed, among other things.

(in English) This diploma thesis focuses on the Book World Prague - International Book Fair and Literary Festival - in the context of the transformation of the Czech book market after 1989. Particularly, it aims to examine the role the Book World Prague played in rehabilitation of the Czech book market as for re-implementation of basic market mechanisms in book production and distribution. Individual chapters cover the following topics: characterization and typology of modern book fairs, the history of the Czech book market from 1948 the present day, the history of the origin of trade fairs, the specific history and developments of book fairs, and the milestones in the history of the Book World Prague. Central to the research are data collected by the author by interviewing ten professionals working in various fields of the book industry. The transcribed interviews served two major purposes: firstly, they were used as the primary source enabling the author to answer the research question. Secondly, they created a primary source material relating the history of the Book World Prague.

(in English) This diploma thesis focuses on the Book World Prague - International Book Fair and Literary Festival - in the context of the transformation of the Czech book market after 1989. Particularly, it aims to examine the role the Book World Prague played in rehabilitation of the Czech book market as for re-implementation of basic market mechanisms in book production and distribution. Individual chapters cover the following topics: characterization and typology of modern book fairs, the history of the Czech book market from 1948 the present day, the history of the origin of trade fairs, the specific history and developments of book fairs, and the milestones in the history of the Book World Prague. Central to the research are data collected by the author by interviewing ten professionals working in various fields of the book industry. The transcribed interviews served two major purposes: firstly, they were used as the primary source enabling the author to answer the research question. Secondly, they created a primary source material relating the history of the Book World Prague.

The thesis is dedicated to the changes of the book market between its entities, libraries and final consumer of information (readers, library users) after the arrival of the internet. Development of the internet has brought searching of the new business models and opportunities for cooperation. Electronic publishing that, along with the internet availability, commenced to raise is the starting factor for the development of electronic books. The thesis outlines the roles of individual entities of the book market, i.e. publisher and seller (distributor, book-seller and digital platform) and libraries during the production, sale and accessing books with the focus on electronic books. After description of used terminology, especially different approaches to the definition of "an e-book", the next chapter presents hardware devices and software programs that enable reading e-books. The third chapter introduces the role of a publisher in the process of publishing printed and electronic e-books. The aim of the chapter is to highlight different strategies of processing the printed and electronic text, incl. possibilities of self-publishing which gives new possibilities to the author's hands. The fourth chapter describes distribution and sale of printed and mainly electronic books and also defines the new...

Book reviewing has a fraught history in the United States. Reviewers have long been accused of not being analytical enough. It should be no wonder then with the emergence of social media that online book reviewing has become increasingly popular. Online reviewers, especially book bloggers, are no literary gatekeepers in their own right, shaping the tastes of readers across the world. Book blogs in particular pay special attention to titles which have long been derided by institutions such as libraries, academia, publishers, and bookstores. These literary gatekeepers typically ignore romance, fantasy, mystery, science fiction, young adult fiction, comic books, and certain kinds of children’s literature, calling it lowbrow. Book bloggers, though, demonstrate that such genre fiction is much more than escapist, mixing enjoyment with the literary. In addition, book blogs create space for women who have been systematically excluded from reviewing. The primary way that they do this is by subverting the male gendered language and structure of reviews.

Uma visão global sobre a situação da indústria do livro no Brasil e suas tendências e a sugestão de um modelo de atuação empresarial e mercadológico para a atuação das editoras. Examina-se cada etapa do marketing editorial: desenvolvimento do produto, comunicação, vendas e distribuição. Sugestões para agentes de instãncias governamentais ou privadas do fomento da leitura e promoção do livro. / This study aims to identify the main international and Brazilian trends of the book publising industry in the context of digital transition; it proposes that the use of marketing fundamental concepts and tools is necessary and inevitable for the creation and consolidation of sustainable organizations in this segment; and it presents a decision and action model that comprehends the most relevant aspects of marketing and communication activities in the editorial area, focusing Brazilizan marketing conditions; and it offers inputs for the promotion and diffusion of the book in the governmental, institutional and business spheres.

With her Book Club, talk show host Oprah Winfrey has used the relatively new technology of television to revive literature. Despite the odds against her--selecting hard-to-read, quirky books by generally unknown authors--Winfrey has successfully created women's spaces for the 1990s, not so different from the American women's social clubs from the late 1800s and early 1900s, and the French salons of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. This study will show how Oprah's Book Club allows readers, especially women, to use the psychological processes of transference and transactional reading by using fictional literature from the Book Club to discuss sensitive areas of their lives.