The effect of multimedia hyperlinks in fiction on reading motivation and immersion in adolescent readers: An empirical study. University of Antwerp
Antwerp Centre for Digital humanities and literary Criticism (ACDC), Institute for the Study of Literature in the Low Countries (ISLN), Didactica
Adolescents' reading habits, particularly of literary texts, are the object of scientific and social concern. Due to the omnipresence of short, digital texts they would read fewer literary texts, be less motivated to do so, and consequently underperform. Especially young adolescents are characterized by a drop in reading motivation. However, reading promoters point out the new possibilities of digital literary texts, such as hypermedia fiction. ...