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Imagine! The Belfast Festival of Ideas and Politics (22-28.03.21)
The OU READ-IT team are pleased to be joining Imagine! The Belfast Festival of Ideas and Politics again this year, on 23rd March, 5pm, for a talk and ...

READ-IT Italian chatbot launched (16.02.2021)
The READ-IT project team are delighted to announce the launch of the Italian version of our chatbot. The chatbot asks you a series of five different prompt ...

The Reader in the Book: Books, Reading and Libraries in Fiction (18, 19, 25, 26.03.21)
The Reader in the Book: Books, Reading and Libraries in Fiction, a conference hosted by the Institute of English Studies, will take place on 18, 19, 25 and ...
READ-IT French chatbot launched (05.02.2021); Le Mans conference (31.03-02.04.2021)
The READ-IT project team are delighted to announce the launch of the French version of our chatbot, ahead of the “Voisins” conference at Le ...

Transmedia Beyond Definitions
The UK team members Francesca Benatti and Alessio Antonini are organizing the workshop “Transmedia Beyond Definitions” to bootstrap a cross-disciplinary ...

UK-RED & READ-IT
The UK Reading Experience Database (UK-RED) is a pioneering project collecting reading experiences, for over 20 years. On 4 January 2021, the UK team of ...

Circuits, Cycles, Configurations: an Interaction Model of Web Comics
In November 2020, Francesca Benatti and Alessio Antonini from the UK team of READ-IT, with Sam Brooker of the Richmond University of London, presented a ...
Cora Krömer dissertation defence 14.12.2020
We’re pleased to announce Cora Krömer’s dissertation defence, 14 December 2020, on reading testimonies on social networks. Here is her ...

‘Reading in the Pandemic’ recordings now available
The READ-IT team were pleased to host the event ‘Reading in the Pandemic’, on 18 November, for the Being Human Festival. We enjoyed a great ...

Language toggle function now available on the Contribution Portal
The READ-IT team are continually exploring new ways to talk to readers across the world. It is with great pleasure that we introduce the language toggle ...