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- Berglund, Karl, FD, 1983-, et al.
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Apples and Oranges? Large-Scale Thematic Comparisons of Contemporary Swedish Popular and Literary Fiction
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Ingår i: Samlaren. - Uppsala : Svenska Litteratursällskapet. - 0348-6133 .- 2002-3871. ; 140, s. 228-260
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Karl Berglund, Department of Literature, Uppsala UniversityMats Dahllöf, Department of Linguistics and Philology, Uppsala UniversityJerry Määttä, Department of Literature, Uppsala UniversityApples and Oranges? Large-Scale Thematic Comparisons of Contemporary Swedish Popular and Literary FictionThe aim of this article is to compare thematic trends in contemporary Swedish bestselling and literary fiction with the help of a computational method—topic modelling—which extracts content themes based on statistical patterns of word usage. This procedure allows us to identify trends and patterns that are not easily discovered through manual reading. We track topics in two subsets of Swedish fiction from the period 2004–2017: 1) prose fiction on the Swedish bestseller charts, and 2) prose fiction shortlisted for the August Prize (arguably the most prestigious Swedish literary prize). The results confirm several assumptions about contemporary popular and literary fiction, such as more plot-focused themes in popular fiction and themes more connected to settings in literary fiction. But the outcomes also provide new, and more surprising knowledge, such as food and economy being the most biased themes among the non-crime fiction bestsellers, whereas themes concerning nature are most biased in the literary realm. Moreover, themes relating to sex, intimacy, and violence are biased towards literary fiction rather than popular fiction. In the light of our findings, we argue that both popular fiction and literary fiction seem to be characterised by certain thematic attributes that make it relevant to discuss them as genres also on a textual-thematic level.
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- Berglund, Karl, Docent, 1983-, et al.
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Audiobook stylistics : Comparing print and audio in the bestselling segment
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Ingår i: Journal of Cultural Analytics. - : CA: Journal of Cultural Analytics. - 2371-4549. ; 6:3, s. 1-30
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The paper explores differences between bestsellers in print and the most popular audiobooks ina subscription-based streaming service for books (“beststreamers”) by means of computationalstylistics. The point of departure is the complete set of print bestsellers and digital audiobookbeststreamers for the Swedish book market 2015–2019, in total 172 novels. We probed 34linguistic measures to track differences between subsets at the stylistic level. The results indicatethat there are pronounced differences between the formats. Print bestsellers are longer,syntactically more complex and varied, and seem to focus more on depiction. Beststreamingaudiobooks, by contrast, are shorter, more straightforwardly written, and appear to highlight plotand dialogue. The results are replicated when the comparison is restricted to crime fiction, themost prominent genre in the commercial top segment. Given these results, it is argued that it ispossible to discern a particular audiobook style as one factor affecting book consumption indigital formats, and conversely that the printed format is associated with other stylistic preferences.
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- Berglund, Karl, Docent, 1983-
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Introducing the Beststreamer : Mapping Nuances in Digital Book Consumption at Scale
- 2021
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Ingår i: Publishing research quarterly. - : Springer. - 1053-8801 .- 1936-4792. ; 37:2, s. 135-151
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper investigates consumption patterns in digital subscription-based streaming services for books by means of a large-scale dataset derived from Storytel. The aim is twofold: to empirically discuss how book consumption in the commercial top segment diverges between print books and digital streaming platforms, and to conceptually show the usefulness and considerable possibilities with computational approaches for digital publishing studies and contemporary book history. This is accomplished by introducing the concept of the beststreamer, and the average finishing degree measure. The empirical output shows large differences between print bestsellers and digital beststreamers, both in terms of genre distributions, finished streams, and levels of completion. These results are discussed in relation to factors fostering consumption patterns, such as platform design, pricing models, supply, marketing, customer base, and media-specific features of the audiobook.
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- Berglund, Karl, Docent, 1983-
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Kvalitetslitteratur och medieformat
- 2022
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Ingår i: Skilda världar. - Stockholm : Svenska Förläggareföreningen. - 9789198573398 ; , s. 58-77
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- Berglund, Karl, Docent, 1983-, et al.
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Larsson, Remade : A Computational Perspective on the Millennium Trilogy in English
- 2024
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Ingår i: Publications of the Modern Language Association of America. - : Cambridge University Press. - 0030-8129 .- 1938-1530. ; 139:1, s. 82-96
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Stieg Larsson's Millennium trilogy is part of a global hypercanon of popular fiction and thus a major commercial enterprise. In the translation of these works, the author and translator are joined by a host of shadowy figures—the source language publisher, scouts, literary agents, target language publishers, editors, and proofreaders—who transform the texts for a particular readership. This essay connects the market-oriented metamorphosis of paratext with substantial alterations to literary content itself. It is based on a computational study of the novels in Swedish and English that singled out major alterations to paragraph meaning and length across the three novels. The study showed that about 6.3% of the paragraphs have been cut or shortened by at least 30%. These extensive changes reveal a process of creative remaking, in which published works become raw content to be reshaped by commercial expectations and the demands of high production speed.
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