'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.500 participants were asked to attribute authorship to a computer-generated news article.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.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.'

本数据集包含题为《迈向文本研究的新社会学：数字时代中的作者概念》的在线读者反馈调查问卷的完整结果，同时附带供参考的调查问卷副本。本次研究共招募500名参与者，要求其为一篇计算机生成（computer-generated）的新闻文章判定作者归属。本数据集系某博士研究项目的采集成果，该项目旨在探究自然语言生成（natural language generation）技术与计算机生成文本所蕴含的社会与文学意涵。在开展问卷调研前，所有参与者均已明确同意如下条款："本人知晓匿名引用内容可被用于各类出版物、研究报告、网页及其他研究成果之中。"参与者同时被告知："本次调查问卷的结果将作为博士学位论文的一部分提交至拉夫堡大学（Loughborough University），并通过相关学术/大众出版物或学术会议进行传播。"