Social reading platforms: diagnosis and evaluation

Cordón-García, José-Antonio; Alonso-Arévalo, Julio; Gómez-Díaz, Raquel; Linder, Daniel

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“…Reading is a social activity rather than a solitary work [ 7 ]. During the reading process, readers directly communicate with other people or indirectly refer to some assistant materials to obtain reading recommendations.…”

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“…Social networking sites also benefit readers’ reading journeys, e.g. readers can communicate with each other through instant messaging platforms [ 7 ].…”

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“…Rather, through reading together [ 6 ], sharing reading experiences, and gathering suggestions as to what to read, reading is a profoundly social activity [ 7 , 8 ]. Readers may also get useful information outside the reading material to enrich and assist their reading experience, either through traditional reading guides, finding blogs and social media posts, or digesting newspaper reviews [ 7 , 9 ]. In this varied context, readers can obtain recommendations through multiple channels that may inspire or motivate them to read.…”

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Hey Alexa, What Should I Read? Comparing the Use of Social and Algorithmic Recommendations for Different Reading Genres

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Buchanan

McKay

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Users often seek reading recommendations for what to read, across a variety of topics of interest and genres. While there has been extensive research on the development of recommender algorithms, our understanding of social factors relating to reading recommendation in the digital era is poor. We have no holistic view of how readers interact with diverse resources, social and digital, to obtain reading recommendations. Users can consult computer-generated summaries and human-created reviews. How much or how often the typical user relies on one or other source, or what variations there are by genre of intended reading, are both open questions. To narrow these research gaps, we conducted a diary study to capture a comprehensive picture of readers’ use of algorithm- and social-sourced information to inform their future reading choices. Based on a qualitative analysis of these diaries, we produced a survey to investigate in-depth readers’ recommendation preferences across fictional reading, factual reading, academic resources, and news and articles. We show that users rely on different sources of recommendation information in different ways across different genres, and that modern social media plays an increasing role alongside established mass media, especially for fiction.

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“…Social networking sites also benefit readers’ reading journeys, e.g. readers can communicate with each other through instant messaging platforms [ 7 ].…”

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2021

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“…Se entiende por lectura digital aquella que se hace sobre un soporte informático (Alonso-Arévalo, Gómez-Díaz, & Cordón-García, 2015) e implica la capacidad de un individuo para comprender, reflexionar, utilizar y compartir los contenidos de los textos digitales, permitiendo el acceso a la información, al conocimiento, al arte y la cultura (Cordón-García, Alonso-Arevalo, Gómez-Díaz, & Linder, 2013). Se puede practicar con diversos dispositivos (ordenador, e-reader, tablet o smartphone) que son los que facilitan la decodificación del mensaje.…”

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La evaluación de las aplicaciones de lectura web: un paso más en el proceso de editorialización de la web

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Gómez-Diaz

2016

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“…Though several definitions of social reading have been proposed (Celaya, 2012;Cordón-García et al 2013;Esposito, 2010;Mennella, 2011;Johnson et al, 2011), the notion remains imprecise. Stein (2010) asserts that the "landscape" of social reading extends from face-to-face interaction to a bewildering array of Web-based sites and social media tools.…”

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La lectura social en España: una perspectiva sociopragmática

Kaplan¹

2016

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Abstract. This paper considers the possible differences between social reading practice in Spain and other forms of social media interaction. While previous research in social media has characterized the pragmatic and discursive features of social media interaction, the study of social reading as a new communicative practice is an emergent area of inquiry. Based on Stein's taxonomy of social reading and drawing both on appraisal theory and (im)politeness theory, a qualitative analysis of a small corpus of texts compiled from five Spanish SRS is conducted. The texts belong to different digital communicative genres. Only the second category of Stein's taxonomy (asynchronous informal online discussion) is analyzed. Results show that this category of social reading does not seem to be too different from other forms of social media interaction. What these virtual communities of social reading practice share is not so much their ideas and thoughts about books and reading, but their feelings and emotional reactions around those ideas.Keywords: Social reading; appraisal theory; (im)politeness theory; social networks; Spain.Resumen. En este trabajo se analizan las posibles diferencias entre la práctica de la lectura social en España y otras formas de interacción en los medios sociales. Las investigaciones anteriores sobre los medios sociales se han enfocado sobre todo en la pragmática y los rasgos discursivos de la interacción, por lo que el estudio de la lectura social como una nueva practica comunicativa es un área de investigación emergente. Con base en la taxonomía propuesta por Stein (2010) y en las teorías de la valoración y la (des)cortesía, se realiza un análisis cualitativo de un corpus pequeño de textos en español recopilados de sitios virtuales de lectura social. Los textos pertenecen a diferentes géneros comunicativos digitales. Solo se analiza la segunda categoría de la taxonomía de Stein (la conversación asincrónica e informal en línea). Los resultados sugieren que esta categoría de lectura social no parece ser muy diferente de otras formas de interacción en los medios sociales. Lo que estas comunidades virtuales de práctica de lectura social comparten no son tanto sus ideas y pensamientos respecto a los libros y la lectura, como sus sentimientos y reacciones emocionales en torno a esas ideas.

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Social reading platforms: diagnosis and evaluation

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Hey Alexa, What Should I Read? Comparing the Use of Social and Algorithmic Recommendations for Different Reading Genres

Hey Alexa, What Should I Read? Comparing the Use of Social and Algorithmic Recommendations for Different Reading Genres

La evaluación de las aplicaciones de lectura web: un paso más en el proceso de editorialización de la web

La lectura social en España: una perspectiva sociopragmática

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