Reading Digital Fiction Project Second-Person Narration Study 1 Data

These data were collected in November 2014 at Sheffield Hallam University, Sheffield, UK, as part of the Reading Digital Fiction project study on second-person narration. Three people participated in the study. The significant data collection consisted of an audio-recorded structured reading of a piece of digital fiction along with a series of scales designed as a questionnaire. Participants read The Princess Murderer (2003), by Deena Larsen and geniwate (available at http://www.deenalarsen.net/princess/). Screenshots of The Princess Murderer were then used to create a structured reading set so that each participant viewed the same lexias in the same order during the study. They were originally shown as a slideshow with sound effects to recreate the reading experience of the live web version. The transcripts are anonymized transcriptions of the structured reading session for each participant. The scales are a record of the participants' responses to the question "To whom does 'you' refer in this screen?" for each screenshot in the stimulus set. Answers range from "you = a fictional character" to "you = me the reader"