Purpose Social media addiction has been an ongoing topic of debate for platform
developers, well-being and mental health experts. There is a limited understanding of the …

Online reading has become an essential part of our life. Online reading has emerged as an
active interdisciplinary field of scientific study in the past two decades. In order to develop a …

Transformative effects of reading, in terms of shifts in self-understanding and enhanced
social cognition, have been the topic of a variety of theoretical and empirical studies recently …

Purpose The purpose of this article is to explore how participants with different motivations
(educational or leisure), familiarity with the medium (newbies and active Twitter users), and …

Millions of users write and read freely accessible texts every day on online literary platforms
(OLPs). Intra-platform surveys aside, only very few studies have considered the …

Computational Stylistics (CS) is a field of enquiry that examines the forms, social
embedding, and the aesthetic potential of literary texts by means of computational and …

New phenomena such as digital social reading, instapoets, and the" rating culture"
expressed in online reviews challenge traditional literary criticism in newspapers and …

Research in the intersections of literature, media, and psychology increasingly examines the
absorbing story experiences of adult readers, typically relying on quantitative self-report …

David Miall was, for many scholars, the person welcoming them into the field of empirical
literary studies. The research he conducted together with Don Kuiken on the effects of …

This Element discusses the challenges and opportunities that different types of corpora offer
for the study of pragmatic phenomena. The focus lies on a hands-on approach to methods …