Name: Doing audiobook research: Local voices, national markets, global contexts
Start: 2025-11-17T08:45:00+01:00
End: 2025-11-18T18:00:00+01:00
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Doing audiobook research: Local voices, national markets, global contexts

von Montag, 17. November 2025(08:45) bis Dienstag, 18. November 2025(18:00)

Montag, 17. November 2025
08:45 Introductory Remarks, Welcome, Warm-Up - Corinna Norrick-Rühl (English Department, Chair of Book Studies) Millicent Weber (Australian National University)
Introductory Remarks, Welcome, Warm-Up
- Corinna Norrick-Rühl (English Department, Chair of Book Studies)
- Millicent Weber (Australian National University)
08:45 - 09:00
09:00
09:00 - 10:00
Beiträge

09:00 Digital Walkthrough Method for Audiobook Research: Audible’s ACX - Claire Parnell (University of Melbourne) Rachel Noorda (Portland State University)

09:20 Reading Audiobook Platforms: infrastructure, algorithms and corroded cultural environments - Rebekah Badcock (Flinders University) Tully Barnett (Flinders University)

09:40 Curating reading of literature in a digital age - Birgitte Stougaard Pedersen (Associate Professor, Aarhus University, Denmark)
10:30
10:30 - 11:30
Beiträge

10:30 Attuning our ear to the voice of the book: The possibilities for audiobooks in literary studies - Brigid Magner (RMIT University) Linda Daley (RMIT)

10:50 Applying Creative Practice to the Literary Audiobook - Patricia Frazis (Australian National University)

11:10 Remediating Postcolonialism: the need for aural criticism - Dikko Yusuf (University of Leeds)
14:15
14:15 - 14:45
Beiträge

14:15 Audiobook Bibliotherapy: reading for wellbeing as an aspect of audiobook research - Katharine Smales (UCL) Laura Dietz (UCL) Nenna Orie Chuku (UCL) Sam Duncan (UCL) Shafquat Towheed (The Open University) Siobhan Campbell (Open University)
15:00 Audiobook Listening: From the Theoretical to the Empirical
Audiobook Listening: From the Theoretical to the Empirical
15:00 - 16:00
Beiträge

15:00 Researching Audiobook Experiences through Audiobook Circles - Julia Pennlert (University of Borås, SSLIS)

15:20 Echoing: A Theory of the Audiobook - Alexander Manshel (McGill University) Laura McGrath (Temple University) J.D. Porter (University of Pennsylvania)

15:40 Who Listens to What? A Survey of Contemporary Audiobook Listening in Sweden - Ann Steiner (Uppsala University)
Dienstag, 18. November 2025
09:00 Industry perspectives: RB Media in conversation with Silvia Krysciak & Chiara Priorelli (05) - Corinna Norrick-Rühl (English Department, Chair of Book Studies) Millicent Weber (Australian National University) Chiara Priorelli (Wavesound Pty Ltd) Silvia Krysciak (RB Media Germany)
Industry perspectives: RB Media in conversation with Silvia Krysciak & Chiara Priorelli (05)
- Corinna Norrick-Rühl (English Department, Chair of Book Studies)
- Millicent Weber (Australian National University)
- Chiara Priorelli (Wavesound Pty Ltd)
- Silvia Krysciak (RB Media Germany)
09:00 - 09:45
10:15 Regional and National Perspectives
Regional and National Perspectives
10:15 - 11:15
Beiträge

10:15 Audio Authors. Writing for Sound – and Streaming – in Denmark and Sweden. - Sara Tanderup Linkis (Lund University)

10:35 Hearing Northern Voices - Beth Brigham (Northumbria University) Helen Williams (Northumbria University)

10:55 Audiobook reading between Australia and Germany - Corinna Norrick-Rühl (English Department, Chair of Book Studies) Millicent Weber (Australian National University)
14:00 Audiobooks and AI
Audiobooks and AI
14:00 - 15:30
Beiträge

14:00 AI Voices and The Audiobook: Listener Evaluation of Human and AI-Narrated Audiobooks in the German Market - Annika Ahrens-Schwabe (Department of Cognition, Emotion, and Methods in Psychology, University of Vienna) Lukas Kosch (Institut für Germanistik, Universität Wien)

14:20 Machines telling stories: Reader perspectives on synthetic audiobook voices - Karl Berglund (Uppsala University) Sarah Hedman-Dybeck (Uppsala University)

14:40 Navigating AI audiobook narration: Mapping the transformation of the Canadian audiobook market through nAIrrative Press - Aline Zara (University of Toronto)

15:00 A beautiful tool and a terrible master: A.I. and the aesthetics of Audio-Storytelling - David Sheinberg
15:30 Concluding Remarks (08)
Concluding Remarks (08)
15:30 - 15:45