Reading digital fiction narrative, cognition, mediality / Alice Bell and Astrid Ensslin.
| Author/creator | Bell, Alice, 1979- |
| Other author | Ensslin, Astrid. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | New York, NY : Routledge, 2024. |
| Description | pages cm |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Taylor & Francis eBooks |
| Subjects |
| Series | Routledge interdisciplinary perspectives on literature |
| Contents | Introduction: Digital Fiction, Empirical Research, and Medial Reading -- Second-Person Narration in Ludic Hypermedia Fiction -- Hyperlinks in Hypertext Fiction -- Immersion in Literary Games -- App-Fiction and the Ethics of Ontological Ambiguity -- Orientation and Empathy in VR Fiction -- Conclusion: Medially Reading Digital Fiction. |
| Abstract | "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"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2023048433 |
| ISBN | 9780367626709 (hardback) |
| ISBN | 9781032738185 (paperback) |
| ISBN | (ebook) |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |