My research focuses on the effects of different types of reading technologies on affective responses toward literature. In particular, I compare the effects of paperbooks, e-readers, iPads and audiobooks on empathy and on immersion, i.e. the feeling of entering into the story world and engaging emotionally with its characters. 

literary reading, reading technologies, media effects, emotion

My research focuses on the effects of different types of reading technologies on affective responses toward literature. In particular, I compare the effects of paperbooks, e-readers, iPads and audiobooks on empathy and on immersion, i.e. the feeling of entering into the story world and engaging emotionally with its characters.