About the Medialogical Understanding of the Concept of “Book Culture”
https://doi.org/10.20913/1815-3186-2024-1-65-75
Abstract
The concept of “book culture”, which entered the domestic book-study discourse in the 1980s, is currently one of the central ones for both historical-book and theoretical-book studies. However, it has not yet received a conventional definition in Russian science. The purpose of the article is to formulate a definition of book culture based on the interpretative theory of culture and theoretical and methodological achievements of medialogy dominating in modern socio-humanitarian knowledge. The authors show the general theoretical context of the formation of the concept of “book culture”. The necessity of a pragmatic turn in theoretical book studies is substantiated. The possibilities of theoretical models of the media researcher G.M. McLuhan and the historian of the printed book R. Darnton for the interpretation of the concept of “book culture” are revealed. The author offers his own definition of book culture as a space of communication between various social actors, mediated by materialized texts broadcasting socially significant information.
About the Authors
S. V. Kozlov
State Public Scientific Technological Library of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Kozlov Sergey Vasilyevich, Candidate Historical Sciences, Associate Professor, Senior Research Worker, Deputy Director on Scientific Work
15 Voskhod St., Novosibirsk, 630102
I. V. Lizunova
State Public Scientific Technological Library of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Kozlov Sergey Vasilyevich, Candidate Historical Sciences, Associate Professor, Senior Research Worker, Deputy Director on Scientific Work
15 Voskhod St., Novosibirsk, 630102
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Kozlov S.V., Lizunova I.V. About the Medialogical Understanding of the Concept of “Book Culture”. Bibliosphere. 2024;(1):65-75. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.20913/1815-3186-2024-1-65-75
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