DIGITAL FICTIONWHEN TECHNOLOGY AND LITERATURE COLLIDE

WHAT IS THIS?It isn’t a tree but it has leaves.

It doesn’t have a steering wheel, but it needs to be turned.

It didn’t do anything wrong but it is oftentimes judged.

WHAT IS THIS?My first syllable would remind you of spiders.

I am the home sometimes of gamers, oftentimes of surfers and bloggers.

WHAT IS THIS?You can shoot me, but you don’t kill me.

You can cut me but you can’t wound or hurt me.

You can show me, sometimes for free or with a fee.

I tell your story, I am your masterpiece.

DIGITAL FICTION

What can you say about reading online?

WHY DID DIGI-FICTION EMERGE?

1. People’s attention span was becoming shorter and shorter and that it was important to give people more options on how they consumed entertainment and books.

2. There has been a technological paradigm shift. (from “sit back” media to “lean-forward” media)

WHAT DO WE NEED TO KNOW?

1. It can mean that the entire book can only be found online.

2.Sometimes works include passcodes so that there will be access to more information.

WHAT DO WE NEED TO KNOW?

Readers turn book pages by swiping across the screen as well as choosing where to take the narrative development.

21ST CENTURY GAVE BIRTH TO:

SOCIAL MEDIA LITERATURE

Social networking and microblogging sites such as Facebook and Twitter gave rise to highly participatory forms of literary engagements or co-construction.

21ST CENTURY GAVE BIRTH TO:

SOCIAL MEDIA LITERATURETWITTER FICTION: Participatory storytelling through social media can be seen as a “kind of performance, allowing for all kinds of creative interplay between users’ offline and online selves”.

21ST CENTURY GAVE BIRTH TO:

SOCIAL MEDIA LITERATURE

FAN FICTION: This is written by fans of popular media texts such as TV series, novels, films and video games.

WHAT’S WITH SOCIAL MEDIA LITERATURE BA?

Collaborative online Fiction Writing became a perfect opportunity for non-professionals to write literary texts and gain recognition. The concept of “WREADER” became known.

WHICH DO YOU THINK IS BETTER? DIGITAL FICTION OR TRADITIONAL FICTION?