Text · dataset · 2008
Beyond the Book project: quantitative data and collateral documents for Seattle Reads
Listed in UBIRA eData
Quantitative data and collateral documents for the Seattle portion of the AHRC-funded project ‘Beyond the Book: Mass Reading Events and Contemporary Cultures of Reading in the UK, USA and Canada’, (2005-2008, grant number: 112166), a three-year interdisciplinary project.
Description
The study researched a selection of 21st-century reading events which employ mass media (TV and radio) and city-wide reading projects which employ the ‘One Book, One Community’ model.
The primary aims of the transnational study were to investigate how mass reading events configure contemporary practices of reading and the cultural meanings of reading at local, national and international levels; to explain the uses and complexities of reading communities in different locations; to identify and analyse trans-national trends and differences in contemporary reading cultures and reading practices; and, to critique the popular function of literary fiction.
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The file contains the data collected from as online surveys of readers in Seattle. Convenience sampling was employed. The survey was advertised through adverts in newspapers, on-line advertisements; flyers and bookmarks distributed through public library systems and cultural centres; via email through the research team’s formal and informal social and professional networks.
The data includes reading choice, habits and practices; participation in broadcast and community book programming; and, basic demographic information (anonymised). The statistical data is deposited in .sav .csv and .por formats. Collateral material includes: Codebook and the Survey.
Content was created between ca. 2007-05-12 and 2008-08-25. Content was saved 2008-10-31. beyondthebookproject.org/
Links
Where it is published
- UBIRA eData record edata.bham.ac.uk/83/3/BtB_Seattle_Data.zip ↗
landing page · from edata bham ac uk
- UBIRA eData record edata.bham.ac.uk/83/2/BtB_Seattle_Survey_Questions.pdf ↗
landing page · from edata bham ac uk
- DOI doi.org/10.25500/edata.bham.00000083 ↗
DOI / persistent id · from edata bham ac uk
Catalogue records · 1
- OAI-PMH record edata.bham.ac.uk/cgi/oai2?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_dc&identifier=oai%3… ↗
metadata API · from edata bham ac uk
Topics
- From keywords
- Earth & Environmental Science · Humanities · Social Science
- Inferred from text
- Historical studies 72%
Provenance · 1 source records, 8 field assertions
| Source | Key | Last seen | Raw |
|---|---|---|---|
| UBIRA eData | oai:edata.bham.ac.uk:83 | 9 d ago | JSON v1 |
| Field | Assertion | Extractor | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| concepts[field].anzsrc:group:4303 | enrichment · edata bham ac uk | taxonomy-embedding@1.0.0 | title+keywords+description (72%) |
| concepts[field].local:field:earth-environmental | mapping · edata bham ac uk | connector:edata_bham_ac_uk@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[field].local:field:humanities | mapping · edata bham ac uk | connector:edata_bham_ac_uk@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[field].local:field:social-science | mapping · edata bham ac uk | connector:edata_bham_ac_uk@1.0.0 | |
| description | source · edata bham ac uk | connector:edata_bham_ac_uk@1.0.0 | /metadata/dc/description |
| license_text | source · edata bham ac uk | connector:edata_bham_ac_uk@1.0.0 | |
| publication_date | source · edata bham ac uk | connector:edata_bham_ac_uk@1.0.0 | |
| title | source · edata bham ac uk | connector:edata_bham_ac_uk@1.0.0 | /metadata/dc/title |