Book chapter
A Community of Readers
Narratives, Nerdfighters, and New Media, p.91
University of Iowa Press
11/15/2020
Abstract
Benedict Anderson has written, “Fiction seeps quietly and continuously into reality, creating that remarkable confidence of community,” and there is no better description of how Nerdfighteria forges connections through narratives. Belief in books as dynamic, meaningful forces in people’s lives has informed Nerdfighteria since its beginnings and continues to shape its more recent activities. It is a community where “the process of reading” is capacious and accommodates new texts and new ways of thinking about them.¹ That books and stories are central to this community is significant at a time when statistics suggest that people in the United States are
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- A Community of Readers
- Creators
- Jennifer Burek Pierce
- Resource Type
- Book chapter
- Publication Details
- Narratives, Nerdfighters, and New Media, p.91
- Publisher
- University of Iowa Press
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 11/15/2020
- Academic Unit
- Library and Information Science; Interdisciplinary Programs
- Record Identifier
- 9984003176602771
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