Self-help reading as a thin culture

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Readers of popular psychology self help books comprise a thin culture rather than interpretive community. They do not have fixed interpretations of the books but instead have flexible beliefs and applications of the ideas. The books are also read to orient the readers in the larger cultural world instead of to define a closed community with shared interests.

Analysis, Books and reading, Bibliotherapy, Self-help movement, Self help books

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Paper, printing and compact disks: the making and unmaking of Islamic culture

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Islam will change and benefit from the progress of computers and information technology. Islamic culture is basically devoted to knowledge and its production. Books and paper advanced the spread of Islamic culture until the ulama banned printing, which was a historical mistake. The spread of computers in the Islamic world could correct that mistake.

Islam, Religious aspects, Media coverage, Computers and civilization, Computers and society

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Reading Japanese women's magazines: the construction of new identities in the 1970s and 1980s

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The 1970s marked a change in Japanese women's roles in society, and this change was reflected in three magazines which encouraged new, subversive lifestyles and identities. Women's magazines in the 1960s carried articles about marriage and gossip, but An'an, Non'no, and More created a taste for travel and fashion among young Japanese women.

Japan, Recreation, Women's magazines, Identity, Women's periodicals

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