21st century reader

• Who is the 21st century reader?

  • uses technology as a primary learning tool
  • capable of navigating and interpreting digital and media messages
  • possesses literary skills which include technological abilities such as keyboarding, internet navigation, interpretation of technological speak, ability to communicate and interpret coded language and decipher graphics
• Illustrated novels

  • 50% of the narrative is presented without words
  • reader must interpret the images in order to comprehend the complete story
  • textual portions are presented in traditional form
  • some may contain no text at all
  • span all genres
• Example of illustrated novels

  • The Arrival by Shaun Tan
• Digi-fiction

  • example of triple media literature
  • combines three media: book, movie/video, and internet website
  • in order to get the full story, readers must engage in navigation, reading, viewing, in all three formats
• Example of digi-fiction

  • Skeleton creek by patrick carman
  • Level 26 by anthony zuiker
• Graphic Novels

  • narratives in comic book formats
  • story is conveyed using a comic form
  • longer than comic books
• Example of graphic novels

  • trese by budjette tan and kajo baldisimo
  • the mythology class by arnold arre
  • mythspace by paolo chikiamco
• Manga

  • used in english-speaking world as a generic term for all comic books and graphic novels from japan
  • artistic and on the storytelling style
  • "ameri-manga" is used to refer to comics created by american artists in a manga style
  • japanese word for comics
• Different kinds of manga

  • Shonen - boy's manga
  • Shojo - girl's manga
  • Seinen - men's manga
  • Josei - women's manga
  • kodomo - children's manga
• chick-lit

  • genre of fiction that addresses issues of modern womanhood, often humorously and lightheartedly
  • features a female protagonist whose womanhood is heavily thematized in the plot
  • protagonists tend to be "single, white, british and american women in their late twenties and early thirties, living in metropolitan areas"
  • became popular in the late 1990s
  • british author helen fielding's bridget jones' diary (1996) is the "ur-text" definition of chick-lit
• flash fiction

  • style of fictional literature or fiction of extreme brevity
  • no widely accepted definition of the length of the category
• literary elements of flash fiction

  • setting
  • characters
  • conflict
  • resolution
  • amount of words - limited to 100 words or less
  • uses twist endings
• brevity - compresses an entire story in the space of a few paragraphs
• complete plot - story with a beginning, middle, and end
• surprise - aim to prompt the reader to think deeply about the true meaning of the story
• examples of flash fiction

  • broken girl by jessie roark
• examples of sms text poetry

  • ode 2 my bike
• examples of textula

  • ang makata ng cellphone by frank g. rivera
• textula

  • lacks punctuation
  • 160 words or less
• distinctive characteristic of flash fiction

  • extreme brevity