Wattpad as a resource for literary studies. Quantitative and qualitative examples of the importance of digital social reading and readers' comments in the margins

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DOI
10.1371/journal.pone.0226708
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  • Clarivate Analytics Document Solution ID: LP5OV
  • PubMed Identifier: 31940372
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1932-6203
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1
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PLOS ONE
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ARTN e0226708
Datum der Veröffentlichung
2020
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Published
Titel
Wattpad as a resource for literary studies. Quantitative and qualitative examples of the importance of digital social reading and readers' comments in the margins
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  • Article
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15

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Autoren
DOI
10.1371/journal.pone.0226708
Editoren
  • David Orrego-Carmona
eISSN
1932-6203
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1
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PLOS ONE
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en
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2020
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e0226708 - e0226708
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Public Library of Science (PLoS)
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0226708
Datum der Datenerfassung
2023
Titel
Wattpad as a resource for literary studies. Quantitative and qualitative examples of the importance of digital social reading and readers’ comments in the margins
Ausgabe der Zeitschrift
15

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Abstract
The end of deep reading is a commonplace in public debates, whenever societies talk about youth, books, and the digital age. In contrast to this, we show for the first time and in detail, how intensively young readers write and comment literary texts at an unprecedented scale. We present several analyses of how fiction is transmitted through the social reading platform Wattpad, one of the largest platforms for user-generated stories, including novels, fanfiction, humour, classics, and poetry. By mixed quantitative and qualitative methods and scalable reading we scrutinise texts and comments on Wattpad, what themes are preferred in 13 languages, what role does genre play for readers behaviour, and what kind of emotional engagement is prevalent when young readers share stories. Our results point out the rise of a global reading culture in youth reading besides national preferences for certain topics and genres, patterns of reading engagement, aesthetic values and social interaction. When reading Teen Fiction social-bonding (affective interaction) is prevalent, when reading Classics social-cognitive interaction (collective intelligence) is prevalent. An educational outcome suggests that readers who engage in Teen Fiction learn to read Classics and to judge books not only in direct emotional response to character's behaviour, but focusing more on contextualised interpretation of the text.
Addresses
  • Department of Human Sciences for Education "R. Massa", University of Milano-Bicocca, Milan, Italy.
Autoren
DOI
10.1371/journal.pone.0226708
eISSN
1932-6203
Externe Identifier
  • PubMed Identifier: 31940372
  • PubMed Central ID: PMC6961871
Funding acknowledgements
  • European Research Council: 792849
Open access
true
ISSN
1932-6203
Ausgabe der Veröffentlichung
1
Zeitschrift
PloS one
Schlüsselwörter
  • Humans
  • Emotions
  • Interpersonal Relations
  • Reading
  • Internet
  • Electrical Equipment and Supplies
Sprache
eng
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Electronic-eCollection
Online publication date
2020
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Open Access
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e0226708
Datum der Veröffentlichung
2020
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Published
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CC BY
Datum der Datenerfassung
2020
Titel
Wattpad as a resource for literary studies. Quantitative and qualitative examples of the importance of digital social reading and readers' comments in the margins.
Sub types
  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
  • research-article
  • Journal Article
Ausgabe der Zeitschrift
15

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Abstract
The end of deep reading is a commonplace in public debates, whenever societies talk about youth, books, and the digital age. In contrast to this, we show for the first time and in detail, how intensively young readers write and comment literary texts at an unprecedented scale. We present several analyses of how fiction is transmitted through the social reading platform Wattpad, one of the largest platforms for user-generated stories, including novels, fanfiction, humour, classics, and poetry. By mixed quantitative and qualitative methods and scalable reading we scrutinise texts and comments on Wattpad, what themes are preferred in 13 languages, what role does genre play for readers behaviour, and what kind of emotional engagement is prevalent when young readers share stories. Our results point out the rise of a global reading culture in youth reading besides national preferences for certain topics and genres, patterns of reading engagement, aesthetic values and social interaction. When reading Teen Fiction social-bonding (affective interaction) is prevalent, when reading Classics social-cognitive interaction (collective intelligence) is prevalent. An educational outcome suggests that readers who engage in Teen Fiction learn to read Classics and to judge books not only in direct emotional response to character's behaviour, but focusing more on contextualised interpretation of the text.
Date of acceptance
2019
Autoren
Autoren-URL
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31940372
DOI
10.1371/journal.pone.0226708
eISSN
1932-6203
Externe Identifier
  • PubMed Central ID: PMC6961871
Ausgabe der Veröffentlichung
1
Zeitschrift
PLoS One
Schlüsselwörter
  • Electrical Equipment and Supplies
  • Emotions
  • Humans
  • Internet
  • Interpersonal Relations
  • Reading
Sprache
eng
Country
United States
Paginierung
e0226708
PII
PONE-D-19-16904
Datum der Veröffentlichung
2020
Status
Published online
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2020
Titel
Wattpad as a resource for literary studies. Quantitative and qualitative examples of the importance of digital social reading and readers' comments in the margins.
Sub types
  • Journal Article
  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Ausgabe der Zeitschrift
15

Data source: PubMed

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