Reading Digital Fiction Digital Fiction App Study

Summary

These data were collected between February 2016 and May 2017 in Sheffield, Huddersfield, and Nottingham as part of the Reading Digital Fiction. 5 reading groups (with a total of 20 participants) participated in the study. The data collection consisted of audio-recorded discussions of a piece of digital fiction which participants had experienced before the discussion. The digital fiction was an app called Karen by Blast Theory (2015). A researcher was not present at the discussion. The participants were told the researchers were interested in their responses to the general areas of: the story, the characters, their relationship to the characters, the technology on which the story was experienced, and anything else they wanted to discuss. The transcripts are anonymized transcriptions of five discussion groups.

Keywords:	digital fiction; empirical research; stylistics; immersion; reader response; fictionality; ontology; apps
Creators:	Bell, Alice http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9737-4081 van der Bom, Isabelle http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9415-0488
Contributors:	Principal Investigator Bell, Alice http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9737-4081 Researcher van der Bom, Isabelle http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9415-0488
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/K004174/1 http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100000267
Publisher of the data:	SHU Research Data Archive (SHURDA)
Publication date:	21 September 2017
Data last accessed:	11 January 2024
DOI:	http://doi.org/10.17032/shu-180031
SHURDA URI:	https://shurda.shu.ac.uk/id/eprint/60
Additional details Additional details Types of data: Text Collection period: From To February 2016 UNSPECIFIED Temporal coverage: From To May 2017 UNSPECIFIED Data collection method: The discussions were recorded via dictaphone. Data processing and preparation activities: The audio recordings were transcribed. 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: 15 Feb 2022 12:43 Last Modified: 15 Feb 2022 12:43