Christian Ehret

Computationally Mediated Synthetic Affect as a Mechanism for Literacy Engagement: Analyzing Adolescents' Livestreamed Videogame Play

ABSTRACT The most affectively powerful narrative texts adolescents encounter are often videogames, yet literacy research has only begun to examine the feelings games produce and what they do for engagement. Extending Robinson and Leander's concept of synthetic affect—feelings co‐...