Reading Clubs: Current Trends and the Case of Greece

Georgios Bikos () and Panagiota Papadimitriou
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Georgios Bikos: Technological Educational Institute of Athens
Panagiota Papadimitriou: Technological Educational Institute of Athens

A chapter in Strategic Innovative Marketing, 2017, pp 735-740 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract In this paper, following a general reference to the phenomenon of reading clubs in various space and time frameworks including its contemporary expressions (e.g. online communities), we focus on some special aspects of the phenomenon, such as the semi-public reading practice which is realised in reading clubs and the social and socialising functions they perform. Subsequently, we look into the development of such clubs in Greece and explore the ways in which their institution evolves during recession. We come to the conclusion that reading clubs are both an expression of how the so-called civil society works and also a form of self-organisation within that civil society.

Keywords: Reading; Reading clubs; Reading clubs in Greece; Book clubs; Philanagnosia (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-33865-1_90

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