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1. Verfasser: Rothbauer, Paulette
Format: Recurso educativo Open Access
Sprache:en
Veröffentlicht: 2009
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Online-Zugang:https://eric.ed.gov/?id=EJ855817
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  • Exploring the Placelessness of Reading among Older Teens in a Canadian Rural Municipality Rothbauer, Paulette Library Role Reading Late Adolescents Rural Population Public Libraries Internet Interviews Observation Recreational Reading Reading Habits Human Geography Foreign Countries Situated in a review of rural, cultural, and youth geographies, this article reports on a qualitative study of the role of reading and libraries in the lives of older rural teenagers. The primary method of data collection was the use of in-depth, flexibly structured interviews with twenty-seven youth between the ages of fifteen and nineteen years, supplemented with data from unobtrusive observation and environmental scanning in a specific geographic locale. Four themes are discussed: the habitual, quotidian reading of teenagers; the shifting visibility of the public library; the Internet and the World Wide Web as a default reading site; and the temporal constraints on reading for pleasure. With the use of ideas informed by cultural geography, the space of nonactive teen readers and the placelessness of reading are explored.