ABSTRACT
This chapter highlights the original methodological, analytical and theoretical contributions made in this book and proposes ways in which our findings can support future investigation of digital fictions as well as other narratives across media. Methodologically, we report on the significance of our third-wave empirical approach to digital fiction which combines the narratological and stylistic analysis of textual features with the analysis of reader data via our medium-conscious reader-response model. We show the five reader-response protocols we have developed and profiled in the book, and argue for the benefits of qualitative research for eliciting data about how readers experience texts across media. We show the analytical insights gained from the preceding chapters and the theoretical advancements we have made via new models of reader identity, ethical stances, and empathic positions, as well as new theories of hypertextual and immersive reading. We end by emphasising the centrality of medial reading for any investigation of reader response.
