Digital Audiobooks

Have, Iben; Pedersen, Birgitte Stougaard

doi:10.4324/9781315743080

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“…They add: "The audiobook is, as the name indicates, closely related to its written source, the printed book." 49 More recently, and in the context of the emerging born-audio publishing, this definition has been rephrased, even questioned, by the author themselves and others. In a 2020 paper Stougaard Pedersen argues that "when sound stories are no longer strongly connected to [print] books as cultural objects, they become independent cultural products."…”

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Audiobook Stylistics: Comparing print and audio in the bestselling segment

Berglund

Dahllöf

2021

Journal of Cultural Analytics

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The paper explores differences between bestsellers in print and the most popular audiobooks in a subscription-based streaming service for books (‘beststreamers’) by means of computational stylistics. The point of departure is the complete set of print bestsellers and digital audiobook beststreamers for the Swedish book market 2015–2019, in total 172 novels. We probed 34 linguistic measures to track differences between subsets at the stylistic level. The results indicate that there are pronounced differences between the formats. Print bestsellers are longer, syntactically more complex and varied, and seem to focus more on depiction. Beststreaming audiobooks, by contrast, are shorter, more straightforwardly written, and appear to highlight plot and dialogue. The results are replicated when the comparison is restricted to crime fiction, the most prominent genre in the commercial top segment. Given these results, it is argued that it is possible to discern a particular audiobook style as one factor affecting book consumption in digital formats, and conversely that the printed format is associated with other stylistic preferences.

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Audiobook Stylistics: Comparing print and audio in the bestselling segment

Berglund

Dahllöf

2021

Journal of Cultural Analytics

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“…In this sense, streaming leads to a remediation of literature while also allowing readers to experience literature in new ways and to create new reading practices (see e.g. Burkey, 2013;Have & Pedersen, 2015;Rubery, 2011;Th ompson, 2012;Wallin & Nolin, 2020). Whereas adoption of e-books has been slow (Bergström & Höglund, 2020), subscription-based audiobook services off er a reading experience that represent a shift in how and when books are read (Wallin & Nolin, 2020).…”

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Streaming media

2021

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“…Audio books emerged as another variant of auditory storytelling on a trajectory from spoken word recordings in the 1910s to full-length recordings of novels in the 1930s. The latter migrated from vinyl to cassettes to CDs/CD-ROMS and more recently digital audio books on streaming on-demand services [9]. In audio books, the storytelling takes a slightly different form compared with radio plays -typically using just one voice to narrate prosebut the medium of presenting a story through sound alone is the same.…”

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“The Mystery of the Raddlesham Mumps”: a Case Study for Combined Storytelling in a Theatre Play and Virtual Reality

Dam

Webb²,

Jarvis

et al. 2020

2020 International Conference on 3D Immersion (IC3D)

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The Mystery of the Raddlesham Mumps" is a poem by Murray Lachlan Young, aimed at both children and adults. This poem has been adapted as a theatre play with a short prequel as a Virtual Reality (VR) / tablet app. We used this unique combination to explore the potential interaction between these different media elements for the level of "presence" and "immersion" in the story (i.e. the level to which one can imagine oneself within the story at the expense of the sense of physical time and space). The theatre audience had the opportunity to play the VR / tablet app in the foyer before the performance started. After the performance, a questionnaire measured participants' level of immersion and presence in the theatre play and their enjoyment of both play and app. The results showed that people of all ages interacted with and liked the app. Ratings for the play were also high and did not depend on prior engagement with the app. However, the play was liked more by adults than children, and the reverse was true for the app, suggesting a potential generation shift in multimedia story telling.

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Digital Audiobooks

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Audiobook Stylistics: Comparing print and audio in the bestselling segment

Audiobook Stylistics: Comparing print and audio in the bestselling segment

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