Day 1 (23/11/2020)

Day 2 (24/11/2020)

09:30 –10:00

Conference opening /
Welcome address
Gerhard Lauer,
Alice Keller, Thomas Grob

Panel 4
Computational approaches I
Chair: Piroska Lendvai

Keynote
Monika Bednarek
Introduction:
Thomas Messerli

10:00 –10:30

Panel 1
Lay book reviews I
Chair: Gerhard Lauer

10:30 –11:00

11:00 –11:30

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Panel 7
Computational approaches II
Chair: Simone Rebora

11:30 –12:00

Keynote
Bronwen Thomas
Introduction:
Moniek Kuijpers

Keynote
Sarah Bo Trasmundi
 Introduction:
Maria Kraxenberger

12:00 –12:30

12:30 –13:30

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13:30 –15:00

Panel 5
Absorption in online reviews
Chair: Brigitte Gasser

Panel 8
Multimodal reading and writing practices
Chair: Thomas Messerli

15:00 –15:30

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15:30 –17:00

Panel 3
Fan fiction
Chair: Moniek Kuijpers

Panel 6
Digital devices and interfaces
 Chair: Noah Bubenhofer

Panel 9
Online social reading
Chair: Daniel Knuchel

17:00 –17:30

Surprise social event

Conference reflection (17:15)

17:30 –18:00

Social event

Day 1

23/11/2020

09:30–10:00

Conference Opening
Maria Kraxenberger, Moniek Kuijpers, Thomas Messerli

Welcome Messages
Thomas Grob (University of Basel, Vizerektor Lehre)
Alice Keller (Universitätsbibliothek Basel, Direktorin)

Welcome Address
Gerhard Lauer

10:00–11:00

Panel 1: Lay book reviews I (Chair: Gerhard Lauer)

How Lovely is Your Book? A Computational Study of Literary Evaluation on a German Social Reading Platform
Thomas Messerli, Simone Rebora & Berenike Herrmann

The Language of Literary Evaluation
Peter Boot

11:00–11:30

BREAK

11:30–12:30

Keynote: Taking Stock: Understanding Readerly Practices under Lockdown
Bronwen Thomas (Chair: Moniek Kuijpers) Video

12:30–13:30

LUNCH BREAK

13:30–15:00

Panel 2: Lay book reviews II (Chair: Berenike Herrmann)

Analyzing Online Reviews: Books vs. Museums. A Corpus Linguistic Approach
Anna Moskvina & Kristina Petzold

The Self, the Book and the Community. Linguistic Identity Construction on Reading Platforms
Anna Mattfeldt

An APPRAISAL Analysis of Online Readers’ Responses to Julian Barnes’s The Sense of an Ending
Amélie Doche

15:00–15:30

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15:30–17:00

Panel 3: Fan fiction (Chair: Moniek Kuijpers)

Investigating the Transformation of Original Work by the Online Fan Fiction Community – A Case Study for Supernatural.
Thomas Schmidt and Nina Kleindienst

Between Customers and Fans. Corpus Linguistic Perspectives on Writing Fan Reports as a Multifunctional Evaluation Practice.
Simon Meier-Vieracker

A Survey of Digital Reading Practices among Italian Wattpad Readers
Federico Pianzola

17:00–18:00

Surprise social event

Day 2

 24/11/2020

09:30–11:00

Panel 4: Computational approaches to textual discourse I (Chair: Piroska Lendvai)

“…and even ‘Mummy-in-Law’ Was Very Enthusiastic” – A Corpus Pragmatic Approach to Evaluative Patterns on a Recipe Webpage
Daniel Knuchel & Noah Bubenhofer

How Well Can Machines Understand Online Book Reviews?
Anna Moskvina &  Rafael Rego Drumon

Digitalization and Law – Effects of Novel Reading and Writing Processes on the Legal Discourse
Andreas Abegg & Bojan Peric

11:00–11:30

BREAK

11:30–12:30

Keynote: Embodied Reading and Imagination
Sarah Bo Trasmundi (Chair: Maria Kraxenberger) Video

12:30–13:30

LUNCH BREAK

13:30–15:00

Panel 5: Absorption in online reviews (Chair: Brigitte Gasser)

Validation of the Story World Absorption Scale Through the Use of Online Reader Reviews
Moniek Kuijpers

Ranking of Social Reading Reviews Based on Richness in Story World Absorption
Piroska Lendvai

Distant Reading Story World Absorption
Simone Rebora

15:00–15:30

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15:30–17:15

Panel 6: Digital devices and interfaces (Chair: Noah Bubenhofer)

Tablets Can Disrupt Reading Comprehension of Primary School Students
Laura Gil & Ladislao Salmerón

An Empirically Based Model of Literary Literacy. Valid for Reading on Paper and on Screen?
Christel Meier

Immanent Normativity on Digital Cultural Interfaces
Matti T. Kangaskoski

Big Data and Naturalized Social Epistemology: a New Frontier for the Digital Humanities
Charles Lassiter

17:15–17:30

Reflection

17:30–18:00

Social event

Day 3

25/11/2020

09:30–10:30

Keynote: Revisiting Appraisal/Evaluation/Stance: Corpus and Discourse Perspectives
Monika Bednarek (Chair: Thomas Messerli) Video

10:30–11:00

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11:00–12:30

Panel 7: Computational approaches to textual discourse II (Chair: Simone Rebora)

Extracting Data from Baptismal Records through Coding
Amanda C.S. Pinheiro

Authenticity in Online Restaurant Reviews: A Corpus Driven Approach to Authenticity as an Evaluative Resource.
Dominick Andrew Boyle

12:30–13:30

LUNCH BREAK

13:30–15:00

Panel 8: Multimodal reading and writing practices (Chair: Thomas Messerli)

The Stance Triangle in YouTube Comments: Evaluation, Positioning, and Alignment with Emojis
Anja Schmid-Stockmeyer

“What a Nice Picture!” Remediating Print-Based Reading Practices Through Bookstagram
Danai Tselenti

On the Connection of Social Media and the Question of Authorship
Nina Tolksdorf

15:00–15:30

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15:30–17:00

Panel 9: Online social reading (Chair: Daniel Knuchel)

One in a Million? Solitary Reading and Social Networks
Marcus Willand

Reading and Writing in Online Platforms
Niels Bakker &  Marianne Hermans

Evaluations of the Quran in Right-Wing Populist Media. Metapragmatic Sequence Analyses With Topic Modeling
Philipp Dreesen & Julia Krasselt

17:00–17:30

Conference reflection

17:30–18:00

Conference closing