The document explores the intersection of technology and literature, particularly through digital fiction, which has emerged due to shorter attention spans and a shift in media consumption. It highlights various forms of social media literature, such as Twitter fiction and fan fiction, that encourage participatory storytelling and collaboration among users. Ultimately, it poses a question comparing the value of digital fiction to traditional fiction.

1. DIGITAL FICTION
WHEN TECHNOLOGY AND LITERATURE COLLIDE

2. 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.

3. WHAT IS THIS?
My first syllable would remind you of spiders.
I am the home sometimes of gamers,
oftentimes of surfers and bloggers.

4. 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.

5. DIGITAL FICTION

6. What can you
say about
reading
online?

7. 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)

8. 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.

9. 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.

10. 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.

11. 21ST CENTURY GAVE BIRTH TO:
SOCIAL MEDIA LITERATURE
TWITTER 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”.

12. 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.

15. 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.

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