SAH Commons | Federico Pianzola | Activity https://sah.hcommons.org/members/fpianz/activity/ Activity feed for Federico Pianzola. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 15:22:50 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 83de152505bde560760caf1752f44216 Federico Pianzola deposited Virtual reality as a tool for promoting reading via enhanced narrative absorption and empathy in the group Digital Humanists https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1702870/ Sat, 25 Jul 2020 02:23:44 -0400 Reading fiction is beneficial for various social skills, although reading has become less and less popular with younger generations. This study investigated whether reading a chapter of a fictional story in virtual reality (VR) can make the reading experience more appealing and increase intention to read the story further. A between-subject…[Read more]

]]> 0 49b9b34ae3217b899fa7cdec0ef53386 Federico Pianzola deposited Wattpad as a resource for literary studies. Quantitative and qualitative examples of the importance of digital social reading and readers’ comments in the margins in the group Digital Humanists https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1702542/ Fri, 24 Jul 2020 02:23:49 -0400 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…[Read more]

]]> 0 c868bc44d61408ddba51cd3d5515737d Federico Pianzola deposited Virtual reality as a tool for promoting reading via enhanced narrative absorption and empathy https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1702533/ Fri, 24 Jul 2020 01:04:14 -0400 Reading fiction is beneficial for various social skills, although reading has become less and less popular with younger generations. This study investigated whether reading a chapter of a fictional story in virtual reality (VR) can make the reading experience more appealing and increase intention to read the story further. A between-subject…[Read more]

]]> 0 91f48008c9fe33f195d59910a065a8f8 Federico Pianzola deposited Wattpad as a resource for literary studies. Quantitative and qualitative examples of the importance of digital social reading and readers’ comments in the margins https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1702137/ Thu, 23 Jul 2020 03:11:26 -0400 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…[Read more]

]]> 0 13328c26b45540447febfc61c6649367 Federico Pianzola's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1626165/ Fri, 21 Dec 2018 05:49:05 -0500 0 df68028337dc4ccb6ffde5f7dc5085b3 Federico Pianzola deposited A New Research Programme for Reading Research: Analysing Comments in the Margins on Wattpad https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1626163/ Fri, 21 Dec 2018 05:43:53 -0500 This paper focuses on Wattpad, a social reading platform on which people can add comments in the margins of books. Analysing these comments enables the comparison between specific parts of the text and the effects they have on readers. We outline a new research programme, discussing both theoretical and practical issues in the study of Wattpad:…[Read more]

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