Reading digital fiction narrative, cognition, mediality /

Reading Digital Fiction offers the first comprehensive and systematic theoretical, methodological, and analytical examination of digital fiction from a cognitive and empirical perspective. Proposing the new concept of medial reading, it argues for the centrality of an audience's interest in, aw...

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Main Authors: Bell, Alice, 1979- (Author), Ensslin, Astrid (Author)
Corporate Author: Taylor & Francis
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Routledge, 2024.
Series:Routledge interdisciplinary perspectives on literature
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520 |a Reading Digital Fiction offers the first comprehensive and systematic theoretical, methodological, and analytical examination of digital fiction from a cognitive and empirical perspective. Proposing the new concept of medial reading, it argues for the centrality of an audience's interest in, awareness of and/or attention to the medium in which a text is produced and received, and which we argue should be applied to reader data across media. The book analyses and theorises five generations of digital fiction and their reading including hypertext fiction, hypermedia fiction, narrative video games, app fiction, and virtual reality. It showcases medium- and platform-specific methods of qualitative reader response research across a variety of contexts and settings from screen-based and embodied interaction to gallery installation, and from reading group and individual interview to think-aloud methodologies. The book thus addresses the unique affordances of digital fiction reading by designing and reporting on new empirical studies focusing on hypertextuality, interactivity, immersion, as well as medium-specific forms of textual you, ontological ambiguity, reader orientation and empathy. In so doing, the book refines, critiques, and expands cognitive, transmedial, and empirical narratology and stylistics by placing the reader of these new narratives front and centre. 
545 0 |a Alice Bell is Professor of English language and literature at Sheffield Hallam University, UK. She researches digital fiction, narratology, stylistics, and empirical literary methods. Her publications include The Possible Worlds of Hypertext Fiction ( 2010), Digital Fiction and the Unnatural (co-authored with Astrid Ensslin, 2021), Possible Worlds Theory and Contemporary Narratology (co-edited with Marie-Laure Ryan, 2019), and Style and Reader Response (co-edited with Browse and others, John Benjamins Benjamins, 2021). Astrid Ensslin is Professor of Digital Cultures and Communication at the University of Regensburg, Germany, where she directs the Digital Area Studies Lab (DAS LAB). Her research sits at the intersections between digital culture, critical media studies, narratology, sociolinguistics, digital humanities, and empirical audience research. Recent publications include The Routledge Companion to Literary Media (co-edited with Julia Round and Bronwen Thomas, 2023), Pre-web Digital Publishing and the Lore of Electronic Literature (2022), and Digital Fiction and the Unnatural (co-authored with Alice Bell, 2021). 
505 0 |a Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Figures -- Tables -- Acknowledgements -- Chapter 1: Introduction: Digital Fiction, Empirical Research, and Medial Reading -- Introduction -- Six Generations of Digital Fiction -- Digital Fiction, Readers, and Three Waves of Scholarship -- Our Medium-Conscious Reader Response Methodology -- Chapter Summaries -- Notes -- Chapter 2: Second-Person Narration in Ludic Hypermedia Fiction -- Introduction -- Digital Fiction and "You" -- Theorising "You" -- Our Empirical Study on "You" -- The Protocol -- Analysis -- Establishing Roles with "You" and "I" -- Double-Deixis and the Reader -- A New Cognitive Model of Reader Self-Positioning: Authentic Adoption, Reluctant Role-Play, and Rejection of "You" -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 3: Hyperlinks in Hypertext Fiction -- Introduction -- Hyperlinks in Hypertext Fiction -- Typologies of Hyperlinks in Hypertext Fiction -- Our Empirical Study on Hyperlinks -- The Protocol -- Analysis -- De(con)structing the Automimetic Reader -- Reading Strategically -- Medially Reading for the Plot -- Conclusion -- Note -- Chapter 4: Immersion in Literary Games -- Introduction -- Immersion in Digital Narrative Media -- Our Empirical Study on Immersion -- The Protocol -- Analytical Frameworks -- Analysis -- Spatiotemporal Immersion, Paratextual Environmental Propping, and Double-Situatedness -- Ludic Immersion as Convergent and Divergent -- The Role of Sound and Incidental Environmental Propping -- Literary and Aesthetic Immersion -- Site Specificity and Collaborative Immersion -- Immersion and the Mixing Console Metaphor -- Conclusion -- Note -- Chapter 5: App Fiction and the Ethics of Ontological Ambiguity -- Introduction -- App Fiction -- Our Empirical Study on Blended Worlds -- The Protocol -- Analysis. 
505 8 |a Feeling Real -- Authentics, Willing Role-Players, Reluctant Role-Players, Rejecters -- Parasocial Response -- Long-Term Engagement and "Ontological Resonance" -- Data Sharing and the Ontological Status of the App -- The Ethics of Ontological Ambiguity -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 6: Orientation and Empathy in VR Fiction -- Introduction -- Empathy and Narrative VR -- Our Empirical Study on Empathy in VR -- The Protocol -- Analysis -- Ontological Orientation: Medium-specific Spatial Double-deixis and Dually Embodied Metalepsis -- Medial Orientation: Ambimedial Response -- Mediality and Engagement -- Empathy with Whom, and How? -- Our New Narrative Empathy Spectrum -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 7: Conclusion: Medially Reading Digital Fiction -- Introduction -- Methodological Innovations -- Analytical Insights -- Theoretical Advancements -- Medial Reading -- Hypertextual Reading -- Multidimensional Immersivity -- Automimetic, Parasocial, and Ambimedial Responses -- Reader Positioning -- Double and Triple Positioning -- Identity Positions -- Ethical Positions -- Empathic Positions -- The Future of Digital Fiction Scholarship -- References -- Index. 
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