Digital Literature and Big Knowledge: The Case of Sociological Comics

In order to face the overwhelming process of Big Knowledge, it is possible to suggest experimental fictions that may help to understand and deal with our knowledge society and culture. The present paper suggests a mode of digital literature named ‘Sociological Comics’, which analyses a political str...

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Main Author: Pedro Andrade
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Imprensa da Universidade de Coimbra 2018-08-01
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Online Access:https://impactum-journals.uc.pt/matlit/article/view/5399
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description In order to face the overwhelming process of Big Knowledge, it is possible to suggest experimental fictions that may help to understand and deal with our knowledge society and culture. The present paper suggests a mode of digital literature named ‘Sociological Comics’, which analyses a political struggle through its story. Under a genre perspective, it fusions sociological knowledge with comics narrative to tell such story. This Sociological Comics example was selected from a corpus of fictional digital texts we included within an archive and Knowledge Base using Hybrimedia. Hybrimedia means the transformation via hybridization of originating media into innovative media. For instance, a post in a blog or a comment in a social network may be reported within a classical mass media e.g. a newspaper, or vice versa. This process actually changes the very nature of these information or knowledge messages.
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spelling doaj.art-c80570b90bd04b77b778ca8a7ceecabd2022-12-22T01:22:43ZengImprensa da Universidade de CoimbraMatLit2182-88302018-08-016210.14195/2182-8830_6-2_10Digital Literature and Big Knowledge: The Case of Sociological ComicsPedro AndradeIn order to face the overwhelming process of Big Knowledge, it is possible to suggest experimental fictions that may help to understand and deal with our knowledge society and culture. The present paper suggests a mode of digital literature named ‘Sociological Comics’, which analyses a political struggle through its story. Under a genre perspective, it fusions sociological knowledge with comics narrative to tell such story. This Sociological Comics example was selected from a corpus of fictional digital texts we included within an archive and Knowledge Base using Hybrimedia. Hybrimedia means the transformation via hybridization of originating media into innovative media. For instance, a post in a blog or a comment in a social network may be reported within a classical mass media e.g. a newspaper, or vice versa. This process actually changes the very nature of these information or knowledge messages.https://impactum-journals.uc.pt/matlit/article/view/5399experimental fictionBig Knowledgesociological comicsknowledge basehybrimedia
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title Digital Literature and Big Knowledge: The Case of Sociological Comics
title_full Digital Literature and Big Knowledge: The Case of Sociological Comics
title_fullStr Digital Literature and Big Knowledge: The Case of Sociological Comics
title_full_unstemmed Digital Literature and Big Knowledge: The Case of Sociological Comics
title_short Digital Literature and Big Knowledge: The Case of Sociological Comics
title_sort digital literature and big knowledge the case of sociological comics
topic experimental fiction
Big Knowledge
sociological comics
knowledge base
hybrimedia
url https://impactum-journals.uc.pt/matlit/article/view/5399
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