Layered PatternsVisualizing Reader Engagement in Digital Texts

Kurt Fendt, Filip Goč

HASTAC 2013

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Marginalia in Digital Texts

• How can we preserve, enhance, and expand reader interaction with digital texts?

• Can we integrate (multimedia) references so that we can represent a text as a “multi-dimensional space” (Roland Barthes)?

• How can we get insights on how readers discover connections within a text, across different texts, to source texts, to adaptations in other media, or derivative texts?

• Is there a way to visualize the „act of reading“ (Wolfgang Iser)?

• Can we go beyond the single text and graphically represent reading paths across multiple texts?

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Team FundingJim ParadisKurt FendtJamie FolsomFilip Goč (Harvard)Wyn KelleyAyse GursoyJason LipshinSusan FienbergSviatlana Fahmy

National Endowment for the HumanitiesMIT Alumni FundsSHASS Teaching & Learning Funds