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Style and Reader Response: Minds, media, methods
Edited by Alice Bell, Sam Browse, Alison Gibbons and David Peplow
[Linguistic Approaches to Literature 36] 2021
► pp. 179–196

Chapter 10
Reading the readers

Ethical and methodological issues for researching readers and reading in the digital age

| Bournemouth University
Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.Background to the study of readers and audiences
  • 3.The impact of the digital
  • 4. Web 2.0 and online participatory cultures
  • 5.Going beyond text
  • 6.Access and anonymity: Negotiating the public versus the private
  • 7.Reflexivity and the responsibilities of researchers
  • 8.Mixed methods approaches
  • 9.Moving from subjects to participants
  • 10.Creative participatory methods
  • 11.Conclusion
  • References
Published online: 8 February 2021
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