To Move, to Touch, to Listen: Multisensory Aspects of the Digital Reading Condition

Birgitte Stougaard Pedersen is associate professor in aesthetics and culture at Aarhus University. She is editor of the international peer-reviewed online journal SoundEffects and coauthor of Digital Audiobooks—New Media, Users, and Experiences (2016). She has published articles in leading international journals on rhythm, the voice, aesthetics, and meaning theory in the interrelationship between literature and music.

Maria Engberg is associate professor at the Department of Computer Science and Media Technology at Malmö University and an affiliate researcher at the Augmented Environments Lab at Georgia Institute of Technology in the United States. She heads up the Data Society Research Program at Malmö University. Engberg is the coeditor of Ubiquitous Computing, Complexity, and Culture (2015) and has published on digital aesthetics, literature, and locative media, including augmented and mixed reality. Her current book project, Reality Media (forthcoming) with Jay David Bolter and Blair MacIntyre, is about augmented and virtual reality media technologies.

Iben Have is associate professor in media studies, School of Communication and Culture, Aarhus University. She has published the books Lyt til TV: Underlægningsmusik i danske tv-dokumentarer (2008), Digital Audiobooks: New Media, Users, and Experiences (2016), and Tunes for All: Music on Danish Radio (2018) and a number of articles and book chapters on audio media and media sound. She is cofounder of the journal SoundEffects.

Ayoe Quist Henkel is associate professor in Danish studies at VIA University College and has a PhD from the Centre for Children's Literature and Media, Department of Communication and Culture, Aarhus University. She is an author and editor of articles and books on children's literature, most recently an article in Nordic Journal of ChildLit Aesthetics on children's literature shifting between media and in Children's Literature in Education on the materiality of literary apps.

Sarah Mygind is assistant professor at the Centre for Children's Literature and Media and Comparative Literature at Aarhus University. Her PhD dissertation, “Children's Literature in Transmedia Motion” (2019), focuses on the effects of transmedia relations for contemporary children's literature. She has edited and published articles in Danish and international journals and books on, among other things, children's literature, digital literature, video games, and transmedia practice.

Helle Bundgaard Svendsen is associate professor at VIA University College and consultant at the National Reading Center in Denmark. She is an author and editor of articles and books on students with reading and writing difficulties. Her main interest is the use of assistive technology in inclusive universal designs for learning. She is currently leading a national interdisciplinary research project on reading success for dyslexic children.