Reader Response Research Articles

Automated Assessment of Inferences Using Pre-Trained Language Models

Inference plays a key role in reading comprehension. However, assessing inference in reading is a complex process that relies on the judgment of trained experts. In this study, we explore objective and automated methods for assessing inference in readers’ responses using natural language processing. Specifically, classifiers were trained to detect inference from a pair of input texts and reader responses by fine-tuning three widely used pre-trained language models. The effects of the model size and pre-training strategy on the accuracy of inference classification were investigated. The highest F1 score of 0.92 was achieved via fine-tuning the robustly optimized 12-layer BERT model (RoBERTa-base). Fine-tuning the larger 24-layer model (RoBERTa-large) did not improve the classification accuracy. Error analysis provides insight into the relative difficulty of classifying inference subtypes. The proposed method demonstrates the feasibility of the automated quantification of inference during reading, and offers potential to facilitate individualized reading instructions.

Responding to representations of fatphobia in prose and comics

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to explore teacher candidates’ response to young adult literature (prose and comics) featuring fat identified protagonists. The paper considers the textual and embodied resources readers use and reject when imagining and interpreting a character’s body. This paper explores how readers’ meaning making was influenced when reading prose versus comics. This paper adds to a corpus of scholarship about the relationships between young adult literature, comics, bodies and reader response theory.Design/methodology/approachAt the time of the study, participants were enrolled in a teacher education program at a Midwestern University, meeting monthly for a voluntary book club dedicated to reading and discussing young adult literature. To examine readers’ responses to comics and prose featuring fat-identified protagonists, the author used descriptive qualitative methodologies to conduct a thematic analysis of meeting transcripts, written participant reflections and researcher memos. Analysis was grounded in theories of reader response, critical fat studies and multimodality.FindingsAnalyses indicated many readers reject textual clues indicating a character’s body size and weight were different from their own. Readers read their bodies into the stories, regarding them as self-help narratives instead of radical counternarratives. Some readers were not able to read against their assumptions of thinness (and whiteness) until prompted by the researcher and other participants.Originality/valueAlthough many reader response scholars have demonstrated readers’ tendencies toward personal identification in the face of racial and class differences, there is less research regarding classroom practices around the entanglement of physical bodies, body image and texts. Analyzing reader’s responses to the constructions of fat bodies in prose versus comics may help English Language Arts (ELA) educators and students identify and deconstruct ideologies of thin-thinking and fatphobia. This study, which demonstrates thin readers’ tendencies to overidentify with protagonists, suggests ELA classrooms might encourage readers to engage in critical literacies that support them in reading both with and against their identities.

Reading Moroccan fiction in the digital age: Abdelouahed Stittou’s novel Zohra Liza as a case study

ABSTRACT This article explores twenty-first Century Moroccan fiction with a focus on the novels published on social media. By analysing Abdelouahed Stittou’s first Arabic Facebook novel, Zohra Liza, as a case study, I highlight the impact of digital technologies, namely social media platforms, on the contemporary North African novel. On the one hand, I suggest that using Facebook as a medium for publishing Zohra Liza profoundly redefined the roles of the author, Abdelouahed Stittou, who had to adjust to the new reading habits of social media users.In this respect, I contend that this shift in the author/ reader dynamics began with reader response theory, but it came to greater prominence with the advent of digital literature. On the other hand, following Brian T. Edwards (2016), I suggest that the massive circulation of global cultural products, such as Hollywood movies, in the digital age provided a vast representational repertoire for Stittou from which he creatively drew while writing Zohra Liza. To be precise, Hollywood cinema, which is one of the fastest circulating cultural forms globally, found its way into the representational repertoire of Stittou and he creatively incorporates a number of Hollywood films into the fabric of his novel.

Reader Response: Association of Alternative Anticoagulation Strategies and Outcomes in Patients With Ischemic Stroke While Taking a Direct Oral Anticoagulant.

Reader Response: Association of Alternative Anticoagulation Strategies and Outcomes in Patients With Ischemic Stroke While Taking a Direct Oral Anticoagulant.

“Moving with the story”: the haptics of reader experience and response to digital comics

ABSTRACT The experience of reading digital comics differs from that of other reading in that it involves the interplay between text and art, both “on the page”, for example, as with the traditional comic book format, or “off the page” in interaction with devices, apps and “extras” the Alt Text in the webcomic, xkcd. This interplay and placement can communicate movement, stillness, suspense, bringing the reader along not only through content or story arc but also through the material affordances, the physical reality of the comic in combination with the technology. The findings of this exploratory study reveal both the varied reading experiences of digital comics as well as the shared experiences of haptic interactions and emotional perception and reaction through the use of devices, comics platforms and apps, and social media. Although webcomics, one type of digital comics, have long been a part of the evolution of hypertext, their place has not always been acknowledged in the scholarship. This research not only contributes towards an empirical, qualitative understanding of reader response to and experience of a range of digital comics including webcomics, but also addresses their role as an example of the haptics of hypertext fiction.

Exploring “The Vital Depths of Experience”: A Reader's Response to Henning

Exploring “The Vital Depths of Experience”: A Reader's Response to Henning

Reader Response: Effects of Season and Daylight Saving Time Shifts on Sleep Symptoms: Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging.

Reader Response: Effects of Season and Daylight Saving Time Shifts on Sleep Symptoms: Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging.

What’s in my mince? Reader responses to news coverage about novel plant-based protein foods

ABSTRACT Plant-based protein products have recently become more prominent on Australian supermarket shelves. However, despite rapidly increasing interest in meat-free or reduced-meat diets, limited research has explored responses toward these foods. Our research analyses Facebook comments (n = 1384) in response to two ABC News articles that covered the Australian launch of Naturli’s “Minced” product in 2018. Our qualitative analysis generated seven main themes, with comments relatively evenly split between self-declared meat consumers and those who did not eat meat. Our analysis shows that social media comments can provide real-time access to what we term “critical moments” in ongoing debates as well as values, in this case related to meat and meat alternatives. Hence people’s views on contentious topics relating to food are more robust and less open to persuasion than political and industry actors might hope or expect, and alternatives to use of framing approaches are required for any media analysis in domains where conflict is present.

Fandom and Fictionality after the Social Web: A Computational Study of AO3

Abstract: Web-based fanfiction is an increasingly important species of modern fiction that is necessary to understanding contemporary literary culture in a multimedia world. Using the Harry Potter fandom on the platform Archive of Our Own (AO3) as our case study, we combine close reading and computational analysis to examine the narrative features of fanfiction and the rhetorical commentary surrounding it. Our approach models a rapprochement between literary studies and fan studies, offering a new data-driven method for analyzing the relationship between traditionally published fiction, web-based fanfiction, and empirical forms of reader response.

Role of UPI Application Usage and Mitigation of Payment Transaction Frauds: An Empirical Study

The objective of this investigation is to analyze the intention behind user behavior toward employing Unified Payment Interface (UPI) apps and pinpointing successful solutions for mitigating frauds linked to them. This will increase safety measures, which would lead to an escalation in usage among consumers, ultimately resulting in higher financial inclusion across India through cashless transactions. The Indian digital payment system has been transformed by these platforms, including Google Pay, PhonePe, and Paytm, which together account for over 90% of all online payments made. Users are attracted primarily due to its convenience as well as ease-of-use factors along with influence from their peers who have turned into avid users themselves. Largely, due to COVID-19 lockdown disruptions many people shifted away from traditional monetary exchanges toward Internet Banking options leading to a surge-related crime involving transactional fraudulent practices costing up to 346%. The popularity itself throughout time due again mainly because it’s easy access capabilities UPI payment app development on fraudulent activities continued. A structured questionnaire was adopted during the collection phase within Chennai City among active UPI payment apps users whose data were analyzed using multivariate statistical techniques. The result proves that predictors such as perceived security, safety, risk consistent advantageous represents key inferences, supplying impetus towards utilizing technology and providing cautionary advice where deficiencies subsist. Info dissemination, emphasizing feature/benefit analysis targeting core customer groups, delivered periodically supplemented defensive protocols, incorporating trial process adaptations can mitigate further risk associated with application utilization. Reader response, demonstrating accommodative response based on familiarity, empowering generational social structure, and enabling transformation gained momentum, demonstrates structural readjustment and solidifies the benefits borne out by increased adaption ratified effective outcomes accruing overall benefits, favourably impacting a variety of demographic profiles, and guaranteeing continued use.

A lexicon-based diachronic comparison of emotions and sentiments in literary translation: A case study of five Chinese versions of David Copperfield.

In the Chinese context, translations have served as a useful conduit for providing access to wider literature authored in other languages. A prominent question has been whether translators' linguistic choices are influenced by factors such as translators' social and cultural background and emotions towards the texts they are translating. When multiple translations of the same text over a span of time are produced, another layer of complexity is introduced, and research such as the present study, must examine how or whether variation in the expression of emotions within translations produced over a period of time is discernible. To this end, the present study made use of Lexicon-based Sentiment Analysis (LBSA), a common natural language processing (NLP) approach, to study people's attitudes, opinions or emotions towards a certain person or thing. LBSA has attracted much attention in the literary works or translated works for analyzing reader response and appraisal of the works themselves. The present study undertook a diachronic comparison of emotions and sentiments in five translations of David Copperfield based on the emotion lexicons. The corpus of the study comprised translations of five books and 3,084,599 tokens. We applied the computational method of emotion and sentiment analysis to the emotion words in the five translations. In addition, we used python and R package to analyze the positive and negative words in five versions. The study revealed that translators as social beings in the target world express unique reactions towards the same emotion in the original text as well as in literary translations. Yet, the modern vernacular Chinese versions also showcase a similarity in the expression of emotions thus demonstrating the decisive role of the overall flow of emotion in the original plays and in translation. The contribution of the study is significant as it is a pioneering investigation given that it undertakes a sentiment and emotion analysis of literary translations in Chinese.

Reading Manna and Quail in the Exodus: A Reader Response Criticism Perspective

Reader Response Criticism is a postmodernist interpretation approach. The spirit of postmodernism greatly influences the interpretive activities carried out by this method. The philosophy of postmodernism is apparent in the characteristics of reader response criticism. The author explains how the Reader Response Criticism approach works in this study. In the research framework, the author uses the literature study method to obtain research data and the biblical hermeneutic method to find news from the Bible. From this research, it can be concluded that Reader Response Criticism considers that manna comes from several proposals, both animals and plants, which tells that the event did not happen miraculously but something normal based on the availability of manna in the area, as well as the quails they came usually because of fatigue so that no visible action of God in the event. But biblically speaking, both of these events were God working miraculously to do His providence for the Israelites who had been freed from slavery and had to pass through the wilderness for 40 years, and God provided food for them.

“Just, at least, try to understand”: Culturally situated reader response and curriculum curation for Black girls

Studies centralizing youth responses to literature have changed the landscape of literacy classrooms and continue to shape literature instruction. Still, there is limited scholarship that explores the intricate ways in which Black girls respond to literature which inhibits curricular possibilities for Black girls in literacy spaces. Considering the dearth of research on Black girls’ reading responses, this article builds on the theoretical foundations of Culturally Situated Reader Response and the Black Girl Literacies Framework to ground the following research questions: (1) What culturally situated positions did Black girls assume as they transacted with a speculative short story? and (2) In what ways do Black girls’ responses highlight the complexity of Black girls’ reading response practices? In centralizing these questions and theoretical framings, the author highlights how Black girls’ incisive responses to a literary text suggest the need for educators and researchers to expand how we consider culture in our pedagogical and curricular decisions, particularly related to Black girls’ literature engagement.

Reader Response: Association of Stages of Objective Memory Impairment With Incident Symptomatic Cognitive Impairment in Cognitively Normal Individuals.

Reader Response: Association of Stages of Objective Memory Impairment With Incident Symptomatic Cognitive Impairment in Cognitively Normal Individuals.

Reader Response Approach for Enhancing Literary Comprehension in an EFL Context

This article examines the impact of Reader Response Approach (RRA) on learners’ autonomy in interpreting literary texts in English as a Foreign Language (EFL) classes. The research involved graduate-level students and teachers from two public universities of Nepal, through Participatory Action Research (PAR). Data were gathered from two Focus Group Discussions (FGDs), twelve classroom observations, and two Key Informant Interviews (KIIs), involving a total of 54 participants. The analysis, based on the principles of socio-constructivism, revealed that RRA-based classes provided students with greater freedom and ample opportunities to engage in discussions on literary texts, connecting them to their personal beliefs and values by fostering their active participation.

Testing Right Frontier Constraint on Edgar Allan Poe's The Raven

This paper focuses on Edgar Allan Poe's The Raven as a case study to examine the narrator's conscious experiences and the challenges of interpreting coherence relations within this domain. It examines the concept of Right Frontier Constraint (RFC) from the Segmented Discourse Representation Theory (SDRT) and discusses its relevance in the context of The Raven. It further addresses the challenge of clarifying poetical effects through the lens of coherence relations and acknowledges the diversity of reader responses. This paper draws from the work of various researchers who have explored discourse segmentation and coordination, and applies global and micro analysis to further examine the themes of The Raven, and Poes use of poetical effect through the poems ambiguity and symbolism. The aim of this paper is to elucidate the intricate web of coherence relations within literary works such as The Raven while also offering potential avenues for future research to probe into the interpretation of coherence relations in conscious experiences.

Dissecting Hoaxes as an Important Strategy in Maintaining Information Literacy

The modern mass population is affected by the hoax phenomenon in the information age, which has a negative impact on productivity, information integration, and social stability. This paper aims to contribute to the public's understanding and response to hoaxes, with a focus on literary and digital literary criticism. In this case, a careful and structured qualitative descriptive is used to identify a hoax phenomenon. This approach comes from two different perspectives. While literature analysis addresses the characteristics and nature of the information in question, other approaches involve empirical methods to examine the impact of language use on readers' perceptions and responses to hoaxes. One more example is the use of an online form that requires the use of a questionnaire that is unique to each individual. The results of the survey, which had 108 responses, showed that media literacy, intensive education, and mass media consumption were all important factors in achieving this goal. The results of this research show that there are various types of fabrication that are commonly found in the computerized period, and each has its own characteristics. One research focus is on political tricks, which are often used to influence public opinion or damage the reputation of political opponents through the spread of false claims about policies or statements taken out of context. The findings of the survey indicate that the mass media's literacy rate has increased as a result of the verification of information and analysis.

‘Meine Hä / nde kennen die reaktionen de / ines Körpers die dich beweg / en machen’: The Disintegrated Body and Relationality in Özlem Özgül Dündar’s Poetry Collection Gedanken Zerren

Özlem Özgül Dündar’s debut poetry collection gedanken zerren (2018) explores what it means to be an embodied subject. Although some of the poems express the violence of having one’s identity ascribed by others, many are also vignettes of seemingly banal interactions that constitute a pre-lingual interconnectedness beyond fixed identities. The poems’ innovative form and style equally encourage us to regard language not just as a carrier of meaning, but as a material force, or indeed body, that can generate affective responses in readers. gedanken zerren enables us to imagine different perspectives on the body, engendering an increased awareness of everyday gestures and bodily reactions that indicate our inherent interrelatedness to other bodies. This is not the sovereign subject or absolute individual who is master of their own destiny, but rather a relational self in a body over which they have no totalizing control or complete knowledge. The idea of the body conveyed by gedanken zerren can be theorized through the deconstructivist thinker Jean-Luc Nancy’s writing on the body, which illuminates how Dündar’s poetry shifts the idea of human subjectivity beyond the hierarchical dualisms that have traditionally defined it, be they gendered, racialized, or a question of subject-object, or mind-body.

Chinese Disaster Poetry: Exploring Resilience through Social Media and Reader Response

Chinese Disaster Poetry: Exploring Resilience through Social Media and Reader Response

Chinese Disaster Poetry: Exploring Resilience through Social Media and Reader Response

Chinese Disaster Poetry: Exploring Resilience through Social Media and Reader Response