Readers and their roles: Evidence from readers of contemporary fiction in the Netherlands

Riddell, Allen; Dalen-Oskam, Karina van

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0201157

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“…Previous research found that the different dimensions of reading motivation triggered differences in reading speed, comprehension, and conclusion skills (McGeown et al, 2015). A previous study also found that certain readers pay attention to plot structure or read, in order to be intellectually challenged (Riddell & Van Dalen-Oskam, 2018). This study also confirms the result obtained by Riddell & Van Dalen-Oskam (2018) and McGeown et al (2015).…”

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Fiction vs. Reality: How Students Discover Real-Life Representations in Prose Using Engaged Reading

Sugiarti,

Prihatini

2023

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Background: The reading of fiction texts requires intense effort to integrate mind, emotion, and intrinsic reading motivation, in order to discover real-life representations. There is limited research in this area. Purpose: This study employs the engaged reading strategy combined with discovery learning, in order to investigate improvements in students’ competence in prose appreciation. Method: This study used a mixed-method design. Thirty-two Indonesian Language Education students participated in the study. Data was collected using student worksheets, observation, and semi-structured interviews. Data analysis was conducted by identifying and interpreting the results of prose appreciation for each reading activity. Results: This study found that while explaining the theme and through description students were able to activate prior knowledge. The students' reading motivation mainly focused on the intrinsic element of stories. They clearly understood the plot, characterizations, and messages, but supporting details varied because of the differences in students’ knowledge, experience, and social background related to short stories. In the post-reading stage, students revealed new knowledge and mental imagery. Based on our findings, engaged reading combined with discovery learning can enrich students' experience and ability to elaborate information, as well as to discover new knowledge about real-life representation in prose. Conclusion: Based on the research findings, teachers and lecturers are able to utilize the engaged reading strategy combined with discovery learning to promote students’ ability to read literature. Further research should involve more diverse participants. Experimental research could also examine the advantages and disadvantages of engaged reading and discovery learning.

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Fiction vs. Reality: How Students Discover Real-Life Representations in Prose Using Engaged Reading

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Prihatini

2023

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“…Further exploration of the variation between readers could perhaps shine a light on different types of readers that may react differently to aesthetic experiences. For example, it would be interesting to answer the question whether there are mainly cognitively driven (i.e., distanced) or mainly affectively driven (i.e., identifying) readers, as well as readers who are somewhere in between (Riddell & van Dalen-Oskam, 2018 ). In a future experiment studying why participants differ in their routes to liking, it would be interesting to let participants read and rate a larger number of texts (perhaps also including texts of different genres).…”

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Different routes to liking: how readers arrive at narrative evaluations

2022

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When two people read the same story, they might both end up liking it very much. However, this does not necessarily mean that their reasons for liking it were identical. We therefore ask what factors contribute to “liking” a story, and—most importantly—how people vary in this respect. We found that readers like stories because they find them interesting, amusing, suspenseful and/or beautiful. However, the degree to which these components of appreciation were related to how much readers liked stories differed between individuals. Interestingly, the individual slopes of the relationships between many of the components and liking were (positively or negatively) correlated. This indicated, for instance, that individuals displaying a relatively strong relationship between interest and liking, generally display a relatively weak relationship between sadness and liking. The individual differences in the strengths of the relationships between the components and liking were not related to individual differences in expertize, a characteristic strongly associated with aesthetic appreciation of visual art. Our work illustrates that it is important to take into consideration the fact that individuals differ in how they arrive at their evaluation of literary stories, and that it is possible to quantify these differences in empirical experiments. Our work suggests that future research should be careful about “overfitting” theories of aesthetic appreciation to an “idealized reader,” but rather take into consideration variations across individuals in the reason for liking a particular story.

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“…(382) Although there are certainly examples of studies in this vein (research within or bordering computational publishing studies have been carried out by e.g. [6,[14][15][16][17][18]; cf. [12], an overwhelming majority of the studies in the field are qualitative.…”

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“…If we look only Table 2 Genre proportions in the dataset per title The category of "crime fiction" in this study follows the bibliography of Swedish crime fiction compiled by the Swedish Crime Fiction Academy (cf. [25], [13][14][15][16][17]. Counted as "prestige fiction" are all books that have been nominated for or awarded a major literary prize (here operationalized as the Nobel Prize in literature, the Pulitzer Prize, The Man Booker Prize, and the two most important literary prizes in a Swedish context: Augustpriset and Nordiska rådets litteraturpris).…”

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Introducing the Beststreamer: Mapping Nuances in Digital Book Consumption at Scale

Berglund

2021

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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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Readers and their roles: Evidence from readers of contemporary fiction in the Netherlands

Cited by 7 publications

References 11 publications

Fiction vs. Reality: How Students Discover Real-Life Representations in Prose Using Engaged Reading

Fiction vs. Reality: How Students Discover Real-Life Representations in Prose Using Engaged Reading

Different routes to liking: how readers arrive at narrative evaluations

Introducing the Beststreamer: Mapping Nuances in Digital Book Consumption at Scale

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