'Towards a New Sociology of the Text: The Concept of the Author in the Digital Age' Questionnaire and Results

The complete results of an online reader response questionnaire entitled 'Towards a New Sociology of the Text: The concept of the Author in the Digital Age'. Also, a copy of the questionnaire for reference.<br>500 participants were asked to attribute authorship to a computer-generated news article.<br>This dataset was amassed as part of a doctoral research project to discern the social and literary implications of natural language generation and computer-generated texts.<br>Prior to beginning the questionnaire, participants agreed that 'I understand that anonymised quotes may be used in publications, reports, web pages, and other research outputs.' Participants were informed that '[t]he [questionnaire] results will be submitted to Loughborough University as part of a PhD thesis and disseminated via relevant academic/popular publications and/or conferences.'