Media, modality, and motivation in literary-aesthetic experience: exploring auditory and visual reception of literature

IF 1.7 2区社会学 0 LITERATURE

Poetics Pub Date : 2025-06-28 DOI:10.1016/j.poetic.2025.102021

Lukas Kosch , Günther Stocker , Annika Ahrens-Schwabe , Hajo Boomgaarden

{"title":"Media, modality, and motivation in literary-aesthetic experience: exploring auditory and visual reception of literature","authors":"Lukas Kosch , Günther Stocker , Annika Ahrens-Schwabe , Hajo Boomgaarden","doi":"10.1016/j.poetic.2025.102021","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Audiobooks have a rich history, evolving from Edison's invention of the phonograph to today's digital audiobooks. Initially considered auxiliary to printed books, audiobooks now enjoy concurrent release and widespread consumption, evident in market growth and increased user engagement. Persistent debates surround the classification of audiobook perception as reading, proponents advocating equivalence while critics contend that they are distinct modes of reception and aesthetic experience. Based on a praxeological approach and a theoretical framework encompassing text, medium, listeners, situations & practices and their resulting effects, this focus group study (<em>n</em> = 34) revealed nuanced perceptions and self-descriptions of regular audiobook listeners, indicating clear distinctions between reading and listening. Despite divergent opinions, the participants demonstrate awareness of their motivations, concrete text selection, specific practices, and contextual factors that influence their choice of reception modality. This research highlights the implications of shifting from print reading to digital listening and the disparities and similarities between the auditory and visual reception of literary texts.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47900,"journal":{"name":"Poetics","volume":"111 ","pages":"Article 102021"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7000,"publicationDate":"2025-06-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Poetics","FirstCategoryId":"90","ListUrlMain":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0304422X25000518","RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"0","JCRName":"LITERATURE","Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 0

Abstract

Audiobooks have a rich history, evolving from Edison's invention of the phonograph to today's digital audiobooks. Initially considered auxiliary to printed books, audiobooks now enjoy concurrent release and widespread consumption, evident in market growth and increased user engagement. Persistent debates surround the classification of audiobook perception as reading, proponents advocating equivalence while critics contend that they are distinct modes of reception and aesthetic experience. Based on a praxeological approach and a theoretical framework encompassing text, medium, listeners, situations & practices and their resulting effects, this focus group study (n = 34) revealed nuanced perceptions and self-descriptions of regular audiobook listeners, indicating clear distinctions between reading and listening. Despite divergent opinions, the participants demonstrate awareness of their motivations, concrete text selection, specific practices, and contextual factors that influence their choice of reception modality. This research highlights the implications of shifting from print reading to digital listening and the disparities and similarities between the auditory and visual reception of literary texts.

查看原文本刊更多论文

文学审美体验中的媒介、形态与动机：文学听觉与视觉接受探索

有声书有着丰富的历史，从爱迪生发明留声机到今天的数字有声书。有声书最初被认为是纸质书的辅助工具，但现在它可以同时发行和广泛消费，这在市场增长和用户参与度的提高上表现得很明显。关于有声读物感知与阅读的分类一直存在争议，支持者主张对等，而批评者则认为它们是不同的接受和审美体验模式。基于行动学的方法和理论框架，包括文本、媒介、听众、情境；这项焦点小组研究（n = 34）揭示了经常听有声书的人的细微感知和自我描述，表明了阅读和听力之间的明显区别。尽管有不同的意见，但参与者表现出对其动机、具体文本选择、具体实践和影响其接受方式选择的语境因素的认识。这项研究强调了从印刷阅读转向数字听力的影响，以及文学文本听觉和视觉接受之间的差异和相似之处。

本文章由计算机程序翻译，如有差异，请以英文原文为准。

求助全文

约1分钟内获得全文求助全文

来源期刊

Poetics Multiple-

CiteScore

4.00

自引率

16.00%

发文量

期刊介绍： Poetics is an interdisciplinary journal of theoretical and empirical research on culture, the media and the arts. Particularly welcome are papers that make an original contribution to the major disciplines - sociology, psychology, media and communication studies, and economics - within which promising lines of research on culture, media and the arts have been developed.