The Stolen Book: Communication Significance Beyond the Criminal Act Milena Tsvetkova, Eleonora Kalvacheva
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The stolen book: Communication significance beyond the criminal act Milena Tsvetkova, Eleonora Kalvacheva To cite this version: Milena Tsvetkova, Eleonora Kalvacheva. The stolen book: Communication significance beyond the criminal act. Proceedings of the 4th year of Human And Social Sciences at the Common Confer- ence (HASSACC-2016), Oct 2016, Zilina, Slovakia. pp.46-52, 10.18638/hassacc.2016.4.1.197. hal- 01687958 HAL Id: hal-01687958 https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01687958 Submitted on 31 Jan 2018 HAL is a multi-disciplinary open access L’archive ouverte pluridisciplinaire HAL, est archive for the deposit and dissemination of sci- destinée au dépôt et à la diffusion de documents entific research documents, whether they are pub- scientifiques de niveau recherche, publiés ou non, lished or not. The documents may come from émanant des établissements d’enseignement et de teaching and research institutions in France or recherche français ou étrangers, des laboratoires abroad, or from public or private research centers. publics ou privés. Distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution| 4.0 International License The 4th Human and Social Sciences at the Common Conference October, 3. - 7. 2016, www.hassacc.com The stolen book: Communication significance beyond the criminal act Milena Tsvetkova, Assoc. Prof., PhD in Sociology Eleonora Kalvacheva, Bachelor's student Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski Sofia University „St. Kliment Ohridski“ Faculty of Journalism and Mass Communication Faculty of Journalism and Mass Communication Sofia, Bulgaria Sofia, Bulgaria Abstract—The research is an attempt to be made a reassessment The concept of the „stolen book” is not necessarily of the phenomenon „theft of book“ in the foreshortening of the negative. In order to reveal in a most objective way the information-communication treatments, the theory of the communication energetics about the act of the theft of book, we feedback and the reflexive model of the communication. The theft should disregard from the criminal aspect of the phenomenon. of book is rationalized as reader’s reflexion and as a specific The present text excludes from the subject of the research social resonance towards it. The research thesis is, that it is interest the crime theft, as any action, causing material damage. accumulated a critical mass of circumstances for liberation of the The choice of the theory about the feedback for the defence of attitude towards the stolen book as a communication the present thesis is motivated by its potential to upgrade the phenomenon and for its emancipation on the field of marketing legal and economic interpretations of the theft of the book and and advertising. Based on retrospective document and discourse to continue the rationalization of this act beyond the sphere of analysis are searched proofs about the positive connotation of the phenomenon „theft of book“ in the context of the concept of the the criminal and of the pathological. book as a medium. In order to be revealed as objectively as II. METHODOLOGY. MATERIALS AND METHODS possible the communication energetics of the act of the theft of book, the authors set aside from the criminal aspect of the The thesis, defended in this exposition, is that it is phenomenon. The present text excludes from the subject of the accumulated a critical mass of circumstances for liberation of research interest the crime theft, and also any action, causing the attitude towards the stolen book as a communication material damage. The empirical examination the thesis is phenomenon and for its emancipation in the field of marketing accomplished through the method of the anonymous inquiry and advertising. For the first time this thesis is probated in a survey about the attitude towards the stolen book. The research report titled „The poor reader is unforgiving: The consultation was done twice – in 2013 and in 2016 among Bulgarian book is uncomfortable and it is made in unhygienic commonly 283 respondents, which represent widest range of environment“, presented at the round table „The EU integration active readers. The research supports and summarizes the and the space of the book”, held on 26th of May 2006 at the changes in the mass connotation of the stolen book in the Book Fair in the National Palace of Culture in Sofia [1]. The foreshortening of the communicative practice „reading“ and new evidences for intensification of the positive connotation of supports the formulation of proposals about relevant tactics and the phenomenon „theft of book“ in the context of the changing approaches in the marketing and advertising of the books. reader and accordingly to the concept about the book as Keywords- stolen book, „most stolen book“ index, stealing medium will be seeked through document and discourse book, theft of books, book thief, library theft, book as medium, analysis. For the empirical examination of the thesis is used feedback, reflexive model of communication, science of reading quantative tool – a survey. The method of the registration of the information is anonymous questionnaire, filled I. INTRODUCTION independently by every respondent. The survey was conducted For the realization of the communication with the book, twice – the first was held in 2013, and the second in 2016. The like any media, it is necessary to receive a feedback. Without a total number of processed questionnaires is 283 (57 from 2013 feedback any book is just a „message in a state of expectation”, and 226 from 2016). The results are analyzed and summarized a latent communication unit. The tracing of the social with a view to the objective – a check of the changes in the resonance, of the reflexion, of the relations, caused and reader‟s attitude towards the stolen book. generated by a book, is especially important for its authors and III. DEFINING THE TERMS editors, because namely the „feedback” is this one, which gives meaning to the interaction with it and makes it „alive”, The process of the information communication in the operational. Namely the feedback is sealing the book as media classical cybernetic paradigm usually is featured through the phenomenon, because by definition it is a reaction and a linear scheme „source-recipient”. The feedback (according to process of re-reflexion of the displayed content in the book. the principle of the complementarity) is an additional information channel in direction from the recipient towards the The question about the nature of the theft of book as source. Technically this allows to the sender (the source) to feedback in the field of the reading is practically not been derive information and to make conclusions regarding to the studied not only in the knowledge of the book and in the process of the information and regarding the way, by which the science of reading, but also in the psychology and sociology. Sociology - other eISSN: 2453-6075, cdISSN: 1339-522X 10.18638/hassacc.2016.4.1.197 - 46 - ISBN: 978-80-554-1270-2 The 4th Human and Social Sciences at the Common Conference October, 3. - 7. 2016, www.hassacc.com addressee (the recipient) receives the information. In general reader‟s reactions [4]. According to this methodological the purpose of the feedback is to check whether the result of treatment the book is an extension, extracorporal extension of the message coincides with the expected reaction. second signal system of the author and acts as a reagent on the reader, as an external stimulus towards second signal system of By definition the feedback is a mechanism of interactive the recipient. The book is neither a channel, nor translator, nor communication and means for control of the interactions. The transmitter, but an exciter of individual psychic experiences. feedback is the real mechanism of the interaction, as far as it is „The book content” is an exciter of “the psychic content” of the „the supporting reflex” of the heard, the read, the seen. But reader, its psychic correlate. In other words, the content of the while the reflex is unconscious reaction, the fulfilling feedback book and its reader are in functional dependence: the content is is conscious information exchange with change of the direction not physical, but psychic phenomenon. As it is said in the and of the subject. As far as the book is neither only terminology of Roubakine: the more are the readers of the information, nor is only a communication channel, but book, the more are its contents [5]. And as far as every reader mediatizised human extension, organoprojection of our is building his projection of the read book, the total reflexion of intellectual body as an artificial medium for communication, it the readers can never be objective – it is objectified, exists only through the reactions of its opposing forces. personalized, group or prevailing social, but always subjective. For the concept „book“ we will work with the following Namely from this angle we should seek the reasons about the definition: the formatted medium (a notion for platform) abot discrepancy in the reader‟s estimates (among them are also the the perception of strong ideas and knowledge, transferred by professional reviewers) of the „quality” of the book, in the virtual image of some reality (a notion for text) [2, p. 69]. The perceptions and explanations about „the content” of the book. encouragement of the reactions and the tracing of the effect of Therefore, by bibliopsychological position, if the author can some book on the audience is a part of the cycle of the have two faces – a real (anthropological) and represented in communication process – the reaction serves to stimulate, to public (an image), the book as an object of reading doesn‟t lead, to activate or somehow to provoke an answer, change in have „a real” face – it has only image, besides always the behavior or mass effect [3, p.