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Attempts to build community: how independent bookstores contribute to culture

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dc.contributor.authorPlatz, Ashley
dc.date.accessioned2025-09-09T15:53:40Z
dc.date.available2025-09-09T15:53:40Z
dc.date.issued2025
dc.description.abstractThis study focuses on comparing the book culture of Glass Bookshop in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, with Lighthouse Bookshop in Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom. Each independent bookstore has a social narrative, portrayed as a space where communities gather and is important to the local community fabric. Glass Bookshop and Lighthouse Bookshop have left-leaning, socio-political social narratives. Different aspects of each bookstore’s websites, store events, and customer habits were compared and contrasted using qualitative data analysis. It was found that Lighthouse Bookshop appears more established in its book culture and community interactions than Glass Bookshop, which appeared to be more disconnected in its portrayal and interactions. Glass Bookshop closed in February 2024, so the study cannot be replicated.
dc.identifier.citationPlatz, A. (2025). Attempts to build community: How independent bookstores contribute to culture. MacEwan University Student EJournal, 9(1). https://doi.org/10.31542/ngc80c28
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.31542/ngc80c28
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14078/4056
dc.language.isoen
dc.rightsAttribution-NonCommercial (CC BY-NC)
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
dc.subjectbook culture
dc.subjectqualitative data analysis
dc.subjectindependent bookstore study
dc.subjectcommunity gathering space
dc.titleAttempts to build community: how independent bookstores contribute to cultureen
dc.typeStudent Article

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