Empirical Comics Research: Digital, Multimodal, and Cognitive Methods

✍ Scribed by Alexander Dunst, Jochen Laubrock, Janina Wildfeuer

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2018
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 367
• Series: Routledge Advances in Comics Studies
• Category: Library

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
List of Figures and Tables
Acknowledgements
1: Comics and Empirical Research: An Introduction
Part I: Digital Approaches to Comics Research
2: Two Per Cent of What? Constructing a Corpus of Typical American Comic Books
3: The Quantitative Analysis of Comics: Towards a Visual Stylometry of Graphic Narrative
4: “The Spider’s Web”: An Analysis of Fan Mail from Amazing Spider-Man, 1963–1995
5: Crowdsourcing Comics Annotations
6: Computer Vision Applied to Comic Book Images
Part II: Linguistics and Multimodal Analysis
7: From Empirical Studies to Visual Narrative Organization: Exploring Page Composition
8: Character Developments in Comics and Graphic Novels: A Systematic Analytical Scheme
9: How Informative are Information Comics in Science Communication? Empirical Results from an Eye-Tracking Study and Knowledge Testing
10: The Interpretation of an Evolving Line Drawing
Part III: Cognitive Processing and Comprehension
11: Viewing Static Visual Narratives through the Lens of the Scene Perception and Event Comprehension Theory (SPECT)
12: Attention to Comics: Cognitive Processing During the Reading of Graphic Literature
13: Reading Words and Images: Factors Influencing Eye Movements in Comic Reading
14: Detecting Differences between Adapted Narratives: Implication of Order of Modality on Exposure
15: Visual Language Theory and the Scientific Study of Comics
Glossary
List of Contributors
Index