Reading Digital Fiction Project Second-Person Narration Study 1 Data

Summary

These data were collected in November 2014 at Sheffield Hallam University, Sheffield, UK, as part of the Reading Digital Fiction project study on second-person narration. Three people participated in the study. The significant data collection consisted of an audio-recorded structured reading of a piece of digital fiction along with a series of scales designed as a questionnaire. Participants read The Princess Murderer (2003), by Deena Larsen and geniwate (available at http://www.deenalarsen.net/princess/). Screenshots of The Princess Murderer were then used to create a structured reading set so that each participant viewed the same lexias in the same order during the study. They were originally shown as a slideshow with sound effects to recreate the reading experience of the live web version. The transcripts are anonymized transcriptions of the structured reading session for each participant. The scales are a record of the participants' responses to the question "To whom does 'you' refer in this screen?" for each screenshot in the stimulus set. Answers range from "you = a fictional character" to "you = me the reader"

Keywords:	digital fiction, electronic literature, empirical, cognitive poetics, stylistics, cognitive narratology,
Creators:	Bell, Alice http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9737-4081 Ensslin, Astrid http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2189-0025 Smith, Jen http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5329-0417
Academic units:	Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities (SSH) > Academic Departments > Department of Humanities Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities (SSH) > Research Centres > Humanities Research Centre (HRC)
Funders:	Funder Name Grant Number Funder ID Arts and Humanities Research Council AH/K004147/1 http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100000267
Copyright Holders:	Sheffield Hallam University
Publisher of the data:	SHU Research Data Archive (SHURDA)
Publication date:	5 September 2017
Data last accessed:	1 May 2018
Embargo expiry date:	1 July 2022
Reason(s) for restriction and conditions for access:	The embargo has been set 5 years after the end of the project to allow the creators to publish work analyzing the data before releasing the data to the public.
DOI:	http://doi.org/10.17032/shu-170006
SHURDA URI:	https://shurda.shu.ac.uk/id/eprint/56
Additional details Additional details Types of data: Dataset Collection period: From To November 2014 UNSPECIFIED Geographic coverage: Sheffield, UK Data collection method: The scales were completed with pen and paper by the participants and transferred to digital format via Qualtrics. The interviews were recorded via dictaphone. Statement on legal, ethical and access issues: Full ethical approval to conduct the research was granted by the Sheffield Hallam University Faculty of Development and Society Research Ethics Committee. Resource language: English Metadata language: English Depositing User: Alice Bell Date Deposited: 05 Sep 2017 09:55 Last Modified: 01 Jul 2022 22:05