Marianne Martens, Ph.D.
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Peer-Reviewed Monograph
Martens, M. (2019, June). The forever fandom of Harry Potter: Balancing fan agency and corporate control. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
 
Martens, M. (2016, July). Publishers, readers, and digital engagement: Participatory forums and young adult publishing. London, England: Palgrave, Macmillan as part of the New Directions in Book History Series. 

Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles   
Mills, J., Campana, K., Haines, C., & Martens, M. (2019, Forthcoming). Where are we now? A comparison of technology use with young children in libraries from 2014 and 2018. Children and Libraries.
 
Martens, M., Rinnert, G. C., & Andersen, C. (2018, December). Child-centered design: Developing an inclusive letter writing app. Frontiers in Psychology (Special edition on Human Computer Interaction:  Interactive Digital Technologies and Early Childhood), 9(2277). doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2018.02277

Mooney, A., Martens, M., & Rinnert, G.C. (2018). Energetic Alpha: Co-designing a tool that encourages three- to six-year-olds to develop handwriting skills. Dialectic: A Scholarly Journal of Thought Leadership, Education and Practice in the Discipline of Visual Communication Design, 2(1). Retrieved from     https://quod.lib.umich.edu/d/dialectic/14932326.0002.109?view=text;rgn=mainMartens, M. (2017). ‘An Entry-Level Field:’ A California case study on new media in youth services programming. The New Review of Children’s Literature and Librarianship, 23(1), p. 47-69.
 
Martens, M. (2015). Gaming the reading experience: Book-related social spaces for young children. Nordisk Tidsskrift for Informationsvidenskab og Kulturformidling (Nordic Journal of Information Science and Cultural Communication), 2(4), p. 29-40. Special Issue on Digital Youth. https://doi.org/10.7146/ntik.v4i2.25923
 
Martens, M. (2015). Childhood and culture reflected through the lens of LIS education: Embedded practice in Danish library and information science education. The Journal of Education in Library and Information Science, 56(1), S69-S79. Special issue on International Perspectives in LIS Education. https://doi.org/10.3138/jelis.56.s1.69
 
Martens, M. (2014). Reading and gamification: Joining guilds, earning badges, and leveling up: Gamified reading for young people. Children & Libraries: The Journal of the Association for Library Service to Children, 12​(4), 19-25. Retrieved from https://digitalcommons.kent.edu/slispubs/32/
 
Martens, M.  (2013). The Librarian Lion: Constructing children’s literature through connections capital, and criticism. The Journal of Education in Library and Information Science, 54(4), 307-319. Retrieved from https://www.jstor.org/stable/43686960
 
Martens, M.  (2013). Considerations of how children think: Danish responses to the International Children’s Digital Library. New Review of Children’s Literature and Librarianship, 19(2), 139-156. https://doi.org/10.1080/13614541.2013.813339
 
Martens, M. (2012). Issues of access and usability in designing digital libraries for children. Library and Information Science Research 34(3), 159-168. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lisr.2011.12.003

Pre-Kent State Peer Reviewed Journal Articles   
Martens, M. (2011). Transmedia teens: Affect, immaterial labor, and user generated content. Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies, 17(1), 49-68. https://doi.org/10.1177/1354856510383363
Peer-Review Book Chapters 
Rinnert, G. C., Mooney, A., & Martens, M. (2018). Energetic Alpha: Motion design as a cross-disciplinary collaboration. In R. B. Stone & L.Wahlin (Eds.), The theory and practice of motion design: Critical perspectives and professional practice. New York, NY: Routledge.
 
Martens, M. (2016). Reading the readers: Tracking visible online reading audiences. In P. M. Rothbauer, K.I. Skjerdingstad, L.E.F. McKechnie, & K. Oterholm (Eds.), Plotting the reading experience: Theory/practice/politics. Waterloo, Ontario, Canada: Wilfrid Laurier University Press.

Invited Book Chapter
Martens, M. (2016). International children’s literature and subversive cultural exchange. In A. Goldsmith (Ed.), Reading the world's stories: An annotated bibliography of international youth literature. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield. 
 
Peer-Reviewed Book Chapter Pre-Kent State
Martens, M. (2010). Consumed by Twilight: The commodification of young adult literature. In M.A. Click, J.S. Aubrey, & E. Behm-Morawitz. (Eds.), Bitten by Twilight: Youth Culture, Media, & the Vampire Franchise. 

Peer-Reviewed Conference Papers in Proceedings 
Rinnert, G. C., Campana, K., Martens, M., & Kociubuk, J. (in press). Playing with handwriting: Creating a game-based app for learning cursive. Proceedings of the 13th European Conference on Games Based Learning. Odense, Denmark.
 
Mills, J., Campana, K., Martens, M., & Haines, C. (in press). The evolving landscape of children’s librarians’ use of new media with young children and their caregivers: A longitudinal study. (Visual Presentation Abstract). Proceedings of the 81th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science and Technology.
 
Mills, J., Campana, K., Martens, M., & Haines, C. (in press). Where the wired things are: A study of current technology use in public library programming for young children. Proceedings of the 2018 Connected Learning Summit. 
 
Rinnert, G.C., Martens, M., Mooney, A., Talbot, J., & Rinnert, B. (2017). Energetic Alpha: Playful handwriting practice for children. Proceedings of the IDC 16: ACM SIGCHI International Conference on Interaction Design and Children. New York, NY: ACM Digital Library.
 
Peterson-Kemp, A., Fisher, K., Martens, M., & Meyers, E. (2017) “Ray of sunshine happiness gun” and other apps in pursuit of social justice: Teens’ designs from Philadelphia. Proceedings from iConference. Wuhan, China. (Proceedings to come)
 
Cooke, N.A., Martens, M., & Junker, B. (2016). Dismantling information poverty in cultural production for young people. Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology (53: 1-4). Copenhagen, Denmark. doi: 10.1002/pra2.2016.14505301020

Conference Proceedings Pre-Kent State
Martens, M. (2011). Team Edward or Team Jacob? How user-generated content is transforming young adult literature. iConference 2011 Proceedings. Seattle, WA.
 
Martens, M.  (2009). Reading around the world: Evaluating Danish children’s use of the International Children’s Digital Library. Conference Proceedings, Libraries in the Digital Age. Dubrovnik and Zadar, Croatia.

Refereed Conference Papers
International 

Rinnert, G. C., Campana, K., Martens, M., & Kociubuk, J. (2019, October). Playing with Handwriting: Creating a Game-Based App for Learning Cursive. Proceedings of the 13th European Conference on Games Based Learning, Odense, Denmark.
 
Ramdarshan Bold, M., Phillips, L., Benwell, F., & Martens, M. (2019, August).  Silencing within and without YA: Creation, production, dissemination, reception, and criticism. Paper presented at International Research Society for Children’s Literature (IRSCL), Stockholm, Sweden.
 
Martens, M. (2019, March). Contemporary trends in library service to young people in North America. Paper presented at Japan Library Association Conference, IFLA Satellite Meeting, Tokyo, Japan.
 
Martens, M. (2018). From canon to fanon: How Harry Potter fans destroy, unmake, remake, and revitalize J.K. Rowling’s books. Paper presented at Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing (SHARP) Conference, Sydney, Australia.
 
Martens, M. (2018). Digital reading experiences for young people. Paper presented at IFLA Satellite Meeting, mini conference for Italian Librarians, Florence, Italy.
 
Rinnert, G.C., Martens, M., Mooney, A., Talbot, J., & Rinnert, B. (2017). Energetic Alpha: Playful handwriting practice for children. Paper presented at ACM SIGCHI International Conference on Interaction Design and Children, Stanford, CA.
 
Peterson-Kemp, A., Fisher, K., Martens, M., & Meyers, E. (2017) “Ray of sunshine happiness gun” and other apps in pursuit of social justice: Teens’ designs from Philadelphia. Paper presented at iConference 2017, Wuhan, China.
 
Martens, M. (2016). Subversively addressing information poverty: Alma Flor Ada, social justice, and the quest for bilingual books in America 1970-2014. This paper is part of a panel with Dr. Nicole Cooke, Graduate School of Information Science at the University of Illinois, and Dr. Beth Juncker, Royal School of Library and Information Science called: Dismantling Information Poverty in cultural production for young people. Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology, Copenhagen, Denmark.
 
Martens, M. (2016). The language of betrayal: Ownership, power, and control of J.K. Rowling’s Pottermore website. Paper presented at the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing (SHARP) Conference (as part of a panel with Dr. Melanie Ramdarshan-Bold and Dr. Alexis Weedon called The language of ownership: Rights and control in the digital sphere), Paris, France.
 
Martens, M. (2015, October). Knowing the forces and harnessing them: International children’s literature and subversive cultural exchange. Paper presented (in Spanish) at the Congreso Internacional de Lectura 2015, International Board on Books for Young People (IBBY), Havana, Cuba.
 
Martens, M. (2015, August). Vitello Has a Knife: Examining social constructions on childhood and ensuing cultural Creations in Denmark and the United States. Paper presented at the International Research Society for Children’s Literature (IRSCL) Conference, Worcester, UK.
 
Martens, M. (2015, July). Longevity through participation, reformatting, and remix: Pop-culture regeneration in Pretty Little Liars. Paper presented at the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing (SHARP) Conference, Montreal, Canada.
 
Martens, M. (2014, September). Book worship: The business of picturebook publishing in America 1960-2000. Paper presented at the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing (SHARP) conference, Antwerp, Belgium.
 
Martens, M. & Brodie, C. (2014, September). Reflecting on the Caldecott Award winners and honor books: A history of inclusion? International Board on Books for Young People World Congress. Mexico City, Mexico. [NB: Unable to attend as this conference conflicted with the above-mentioned SHARP conference].
 
Martens, M. (2013, August). “Marketers,” “authors,” and “readers:” Redefining roles within multiple mediascapes of children’s literature. Paper presented at the International Research Society for Children’s Literature Conference, Maastricht, Netherlands.
 
Martens, M. (2013, July). Geographies of the young adult novel: Imagined communities of readers. Paper presented at the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing (SHARP) Conference, Philadelphia, PA.
 
Martens, M. (2013, June). Reading the readers: Tracking visible online reading audiences. Paper presented at Researching the Reading Experience Conference, Oslo, Norway.
 
Martens, M. (2013, March). Books, gamification and the imagination: Multiplatform books for young readers. Paper presented at The Child and the Book Conference, University of Padua, Padua, Italy.
 
Martens, M. (2013, February). Lightning talk. Paper presented at the Digital Youth Workshop. iConference 2013, Fort Worth, Texas.
National 
Haines, C., Mills, J., Campana, K., & Martens, M. (2019). And the survey says…: Preliminary results from the 2018 Young Children, New Media, and Libraries Survey of Technology Use in Today’s Libraries. Paper presented at American Library Association 2019 Midwinter Meeting, Seattle, WA.

Campana, K., Mills, E., Martens, M., Haines, C., & Prendergast, T. (2018, June). To tech or not to tech: The debate and the research around technology, young children and the library. Paper presented at American Library Association, New Orleans, LA. (unable to attend)

​Martens, M., & Rinnert, G. C. (2016). The Energetic Alpha App: Infusing quality using co-design and a focus on inclusion. Paper presented at Screen Time Symposium, The Developmental Media Lab at Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, IL.
 
Martens, M., Schilling, S., & Van Der Schyf, S. L. (2015, April). From children’s books to global citizenship: The Power of books from around the world. Paper presented at the Virginia Hamilton Conference on Multicultural Literature for Youth, Kent State University,            Kent, OH.
 
Campbell, C., Karatsu, R., & Martens, M. (2014, November). RCPL: Leading change with kids’ tech spaces. Paper presented at the California Library Association, Oakland, CA.
 
Bentley-Flannery, P., Campbell, C., Martens, M., & Moore, C. (2014, June). Whet your APPetite Librarian selected apps for all your digital needs. Panel comprised of members of ALSC’s Children and Technology Committee and Digital Content Task Force. American Library Association, Las Vegas, NV.
 
Martens, M. & Baldini, M. (2014, April). Digital pearls: Multicultural apps, eBooks, and websites for young people. Paper presented at the Virginia Hamilton Conference on Multicultural Literature for Youth, Kent, OH.
 
Martens, M. (2014, January). I can do it myself: Toward a new paradigm of (children’s) publishing. Lightning talk as part of the panel called: “A risky business: Educational      entrepreneurship in youth services” convened by Annette Goldsmith, University of Washington, and Allison G. Kaplan, University of Wisconsin-Madison. Presented at ALISE 2014, Philadelphia, PA.
 
Martens, M. (2014, January). High-touch training through tech: Approaches to online education in youth services. Juried panel with Anthony Bernier, San Jose State University; Marianne Martens, Kent State University; and Joyce Valenza, Rutgers University, convened by Cindy Welch, University of Tennessee. Presented at ALISE 2014, Philadelphia, PA.
 
Martens, M., Baldini, M., & Brodie, C.S. (2013, April). Connecting to special collections of children’s literature. Paper presented at the Virginia Hamilton Conference on Multicultural Literature for Youth, Kent, Ohio.
 
Martens, M. (2012, September). Desperately seeking dissent: Subversive readings in transmedia storytelling. Paper presented as part of a panel organized by Loretta Gaffney entitled: “The politics of reading: Libraries, pedagogy, publishing, and youth” at the Protest on the Page Print Culture Conference, Madison, WI.
 
Refereed Conference Papers Pre-Kent State:
Martens, M. (2012, February) Beyond print: How hybrid books are redefining storytelling and authorship. Paper presented as part of a panel organized by Casey Brienza, University of Cambridge, entitled “Storied lives in publishing and the literary field” at the Eastern Sociological Society’s Annual Meeting, New York, NY.
 
Martens, M. & Murray, D. (2012, January). Consuming “Pretty Little Liars:” Postfeminist pop tarts in a transmedia text. Paper presented at the Food Networks: Gender and Foodways Conference, University of Notre Dame, South Bend, IN.  
 
Martens, M. (2011, July). Interlacing text, image, and interactivity: Multiplatform books and technologies of production. Paper presented at the annual conference of the Society of the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing (SHARP), Washington, DC.
 
Martens, M. (2011, January). The Librarian Lion: Constructing children’s literature through connections, capital, and criticism. Presented ALISE/LMC Award-winning paper at the Association for Library and Information Science Education (ALISE) annual conference, San Diego, CA.
 
Martens, M. (2010, November). Author girls: Transmedia literature and user-generated content. Presented paper as part of a “paper” panel entitled “Gender, agency, and technology” at the National Communication Association’s (NCA) 96th Annual Convention, San Francisco, CA.
 
Martens, M. & Cooke, N. A. (2010). 21st century skills for global awareness and the school library. Paper presented at New Jersey Global Educators Conference, Union, NJ.
 
Martens, M. (2010, June). Virtual sweatshops: Creating and evaluating young adult literature from the library to the digital realm. Paper accepted to doctoral forum at Conference on Conceptions of Library and Information Science 7 (CoLIS 7): Unity in Diversity, London, England.
 
Martens, M. (2009, May). Reading around the world: Evaluating Danish children's use of the International Children’s Digital Library. Presented poster and participated in doctoral forum at Libraries in the Digital Age (LIDA) annual meeting. Dubrovnik and Zadar, Croatia.

​Reports
Martens, M., Rinnert, G. C., & Mooney, A. (2016). Energetic Alpha App: A progress report on the CCI seed grant.
 
Caserotti, G., Fellows, M., Hoptay Brown, J., Martens, M., Reese, L., & Silverman, S. (2015, June 26). Second report from the Evolving Carnegie Task Force to the Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC) Board. Presented to the ALSC Board in June 2015.
 
Campbell, C., Caserotti, G., Fellows, M., Hoptay Brown, J., Martens, M., & Silverman, S. (2015). Report from the Evolving Carnegie Task Force to the Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC) Board. Presented to the ALSC Board in January 2015.
 
Martens, M. (2014). Report on the Digital Literacy Evaluation Project: Evaluation of two LSTA grant-funded children’s technology spaces at the Rancho Cucamonga Public Library.
 
Other Writing
Martens, M. & Rinnert, G. C. (2019, February 28). “Intentional design for digital inclusion: Developing Energetic Alpha for preschoolers.” Invited Blog Post for the Joan Ganz Cooney Center [The Cooney Center is the research arm of Sesame Street]. Retrieved from http://joanganzcooneycenter.org/2019/02/28/intentional-design-for digital-inclusion-developing-energetic-alpha-for-preschoolers/ 

Campana, K., Mills, J., Haines, C., Prendergast, T., & Martens, M. (in press). To tech or not to tech: The debate and the research around technology, young children, and the library. Children & Libraries.
 
Kociubuk, J., Campana, K., Mills, J. E., Martens, M., & Haines, C. (2018). Young Children, New Media, and Libraries 2018 Survey Infographic. Web. Published at https://sites.google.com/view/ycnml18/home
 
Martens, M. (2018). Foreword to Swan Lake by Lisbeth Zwerger. Invited by the publisher, NorthSouth Books, for reissue of book originally published in 2002.
 
Martens, M. (2016, October). Media Mentorship, Diversity and Inclusion, and the Screen Time Symposium. ALSC blog: The official blog for the Association for Library Service to Children. 

Latham, K. F. & Martens, M. (2016). Convergence in library and museum education: Playing around with curriculum. The Journal of Education in Library and Information Science, 57(1), p 79-82. doi:10.12783/issn.2328-2967/57/1/7
 
Baldini, M. & Martens, M. (2016, April). Out of the box and into the book: Innovative library partnerships to close the 32 million world gap. Children & Libraries: The Journal of the Association for Library Service to Children.
 
Martens, M. (2016). Annotation of Wild Wings by Lewis Gill, for Bridges to Understanding monograph on international children’s literature edited by Annette Goldsmith.
 
Martens, M. (2016). Annotation of The Sky of Afghanistan by Ana Eulate and Sonja Wimmer, for Bridges to Understanding monograph on international children’s literature edited         by Annette Goldsmith.
 
Martens, M. (2016, June 16). Notable children’s recordings committee – ALA Annual 2016. ALSC blog: The official blog for the Association for Library Service to Children.      
 
Martens, M. (2015, April 11). Evolving the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Children’s Video. ALSC blog: The official blog for the Association for Library Service to Children.
 
Martens, M. & Stoltz, D. (2014, August). Ebooks enhance development of the whole child: Up for debate. School Library Journal.
 
Martens, M. (2014, August 9). Cultural competence in the digital realm:  #WeNeedDiverseApps! ALSC blog: The official blog for the Association for Library Service to Children.
 
Martens, M. (2014, March 3). COPPA-compliant participatory sites for young readers. ALSC blog: The official blog for the Association for Library Service to Children.
 
Martens, M. (2014, Winter). Technology in children’s programming: A view from the digital trenches. Children & Libraries: The Journal of the Association for Library Service to Children.
 
Martens, M. (2013, September 14). Digital content: Training future librarians. ALSC blog: The official blog for the Association for Library Service to Children.
 
Other Publications Pre-Kent State
Martens, M. (2011). Anne Carroll Moore: Grande dame of children’s literature. Library Media Connection, 29(7).
 
Martens, M. (2011). Special collections: A pre-conference tour of the de Grummond Collection in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. Children & Libraries: The Journal of the Association forLibrary Service to Children.
 
Martens, M. (2010, Winter). Touring the children’s literature center at the Library of Congress. Children & Libraries: The Journal of the Association for Library Service to Children, 8(3), p. 51-52.
 
Martens, M. (2010, Fall). Library history seminar XII: A problematic delight. American Library Association Library History Roundtable Newsletter.
 
Martens, M. (2009). The SHARP Conference Toronto. SHARPNews 18(4), 2.
 
Martens, M. (2009). Mixing it up: A recap of the USBBY/YALSA panel from ALA Annual in Chicago. United States Board on Books for Young People Newsletter 34(2), 10. 

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