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Anti-Social Media and Socially Engaged E-Lit
In response to the theme of "peripheries," this paper will explore the question of social media, poetics and externalities. Within the expansive semiotic space of contemporary interactive audiovisual media and the esoteric processes of machine language, the question of how one might wield the tools of discourse in service of socially engaged art gain new urgency.
Many assumptions about digital discourse in the United States are framed by the pragmatics of pop forms, driving political, aesthetic, and, even, intellectual discourse ever closer to consumer norms, under the rhetoric of authenticity, relevance, and democracy. To contextualize my argument, I will discuss the evolution of the popular, from craft to the vernacular, from mass media through interactive design, tracing a general evolution of social realism vis-à-vis shifting conceptions of authenticity.
Jorge Sáez Jiménez-Casquet - 17.11.2019 - 13:23
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Stories and Social Media: Identities and Interaction
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This book examines everyday stories of personal experience that are published online in contemporary forms of social media. Taking examples from discussion boards, blogs, social network sites, microblogging sites, wikis, collaborative and participatory storytelling projects, Ruth Page explores how new and existing narrative genres are being (re)shaped in different online contexts. The book shows how the characteristics of social media, which emphasize recency, interpersonal connection and mobile distribution, amplify or reverse different aspects of canonical storytelling. The new storytelling patterns which emerge provide a fresh perspective on some of the key concepts in narrative research: structure, evaluation and the location of speaker and audience in time and space. The online stories are profoundly social in nature, and perform important identity work for their tellers as they interact with their audiences - identities which range from celebrities in Twitter, cancer survivors in the blogosphere to creative writers convening storytelling projects or local histories.
Caroline Tranberg - 22.09.2021 - 13:39
