Articles

Publications arising from the Beyond the Book project
please check back since many more publications are in various stages of production!

Fuller, Danielle, DeNel Rehberg Sedo and Amy Thurlow. (2009) (published 2010) 'More than “just a little library program”: Discourses of power in One Book, One Community programming committees.' Logos , (20)1-4: 228-240.

Fuller, Danielle and James Procter. 2009. 'Reading as "social glue"? Book Groups, Multiculture, and the Small Island Read 2007. 'Region/Writing/Home: Relocating Diasporic Writing in Britain.' Spec. Issue, Moving Worlds: Journal of Transcultural Writings. 9.2: 26-40. Available in the UBIRA archive, http://eprints.bham.ac.uk/.

Lang, Anouk. 2009. 'Reading race in Small Island: discourse deviation, schemata and the textual encounter.' Language and Literature18: 316-330.

Lang, Anouk. 2009. ‘“Enthralling but at the same time disturbing”: Challenging the readers of Small Island.’ Journal of Commonwealth Literature 44.2: 123-140.

Fuller, Danielle. 2008. ‘Reading as Social Practice: The Beyond the Book research project.’ Journal of Popular Narrative Media 1.2: 211-217. Available in the UBIRA archive, http://eprints.bham.ac.uk/

Special Issue of Journal of Popular Narrative Media 1.2 (2008). Edited by Nikkianne Moodie. Includes revised papers from the 'Beyond the Book' conference.

Special issue of Particip@tions: Journal of Audience and Reception Studies 5.2. (2008) Guest Edited by Dru Pagliassotti. Journal Editor: Martin Barker. More revised papers from the Beyond the Book conference. Available at: www.participations.org

Rehberg Sedo, DeNel. 2008. ‘”Richard & Judy’s Book Club” and “Canada Reads”: Readers, Books and Cultural Programming in a Digital Era.’ Information, Communication and Society. 11. 2 (March): 188 – 206.

Fuller, Danielle. 2007. Listening to the Readers of "Canada Reads". Canadian Literature. 193 (Summer): 11-34.

Fuller, Danielle and DeNel Rehberg Sedo. 2006. ‘A Reading Spectacle for the Nation: The CBC and “Canada Reads.”’ Journal of Canadian Studies (Winter 2006). 40.1: 5-36.

Forthcoming
BTB chapter contributions to several edited (and contracted) collections which are variously about the history of reading; 'Richard & Judy's Book Club', and the interdisciplinary future of Canadian literary studies.

A conversation with Richard Grant by Anouk Lang - forthcoming in Journal of Commonwealth Literature in 2011.

Danielle Fuller: selected publications
______. 2006. ‘Riding a Rolling Wave: A Conversation with Joan Clark.’ Canadian Literature. 189 (Summer): 121-133.

______. Writing the everyday: Women's textual communities in Atlantic Canada. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press. Awarded Aid to Scholarly Publications Grant & Gabrielle Roy Book Prize.

______. 2004. ‘Strange terrain: Re-producing and resisting place-myths in two contemporary fictions of Newfoundland.’ Essays on Canadian Writing (Special issue, Newfoundland literature) 82: 21-50.

______. 2002. Guest editor, Special Issue, ‘Women – Texts – Communities.’ Women's Studies International Forum 25.1 (March-April).

______. 2002. ‘Introduction: Women – Texts – Communities.’ Women’s Studies International Forum 25.1 (March-April): 163-166.

______. 2002. ‘Critical Friendships: Reading Women's Writing Communities in Newfoundland.’ Women’s Studies International Forum 25.1 (March-April): 247-260.

______ and Susan Billingham. 2000. ‘Can Lit(e): Fit for Export?’ Essays on Canadian Writing (Special 25th Anniversary Issue) 71 (Winter): 114-127.

DeNel Rehberg Sedo: publications
Rehberg Sedo, D. (2005a). Reading and Study Clubs. In C. Gerson & J. Michon (eds.), History of the Book in Canada (Vol. III). Toronto: University of Toronto Press.

Rehberg Sedo, D. (2004a) Badges of Wisdom, Spaces for Being: A Study of Contemporary Women's Book Clubs. Unpublished PhD Dissertation, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC.

_____. (2004b). Case Study: Margaret McMicking and the Victoria Literary Society. In F. Black & Y. Lamonde (Eds.), History of the Book in Canada Vol. II, 479-481. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.

_____. (2003a). Book Clubs and Reading Groups. In K. Christensen & D. Levinson (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Community: From the Village to the Virtual World, 97-99. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

_____. (2003b). Readers in Reading Groups: An On-Line Survey of Face-To-Face and Virtual Book Clubs. Convergence: The Journal of Research into New Media Technologies, 9(1), 66-90.

____. (2002). Predications of life after Oprah: A glimpse at the power of book club readers. Publishing Research Quarterly, 18(3), 11-22.

_____. (1998). Gathering in the name of literature. The New Reader, 3(1), 46-48.

DeNel Rehberg Sedo, "Richard & Judy’s Book Club and ‘Canada Reads’: Readers, Books and Cultural Programming in a Digital Era"

ABSTRACT
This article is a result of a trans-national comparison of two broadcast book programs’ influence on readers’ book choices. Online surveys and focus group interviews in Canada and the UK illustrate active audience participation in the converged era of print books, the Internet, television, and radio. The analysis examines readers’ negotiation of book choices through the uses and gratifications theory as informed by a cultural critique of the programs themselves. Readers simultaneously respond to and create a hierarchy of cultural tastes that are bound up in the cultural assumptions that they have about the different media.

If you would like a copy of this article, please contact the author at denel.rehbergsedo@msvu.ca.