{"id":10,"date":"2020-01-18T00:46:02","date_gmt":"2020-01-18T07:46:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/english372\/?p=10"},"modified":"2020-01-18T00:46:02","modified_gmt":"2020-01-18T07:46:02","slug":"assignment-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/english372\/2020\/01\/18\/assignment-13\/","title":{"rendered":"Assignment 1:3"},"content":{"rendered":"

Happy Friday all! For Assignment 1:3 I will be answering this question seven.\u00a0 I am particularly interested and intrigued by this question because I have worked for digital marketing agencies and have crafted digital stories as a means of communication for a variety of different clients in different industries. The question is as follows: <\/span>\u201cAt the beginning of this lesson I pointed to the idea that technological advances in communication tools have been part of the impetus to rethink the divisive and hierarchical categorizing of literature and orality, and suggested that this is happening for a number of reasons.\u00a0 I\u2019d like you to consider two aspects of digital literature: 1) social media tools that enable widespread publication, without publishers, and 2) Hypertext, which is the name for the text that lies beyond the text you are reading, until you click. How do you think these capabilities might be impacting literature and story?\u201d.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

While literature and story take two different paths, there are areas of collision and this sometimes occur in the world of digital writing; a world that is still unfamiliar even if having existed for over two decades. Chamberlain\u2019s book, <\/span>If This is Your Land, Where are Your Stories: Finding Common Ground <\/span><\/i><\/a>discusses the importance of history and of stories as a method of recognition to land. In a time where government officials were in the process of claiming indigenous land, an elder asked \u201cIf this is your land, where are your stories\u201d before switching to his traditional language in which he chose to share a personal and cultural story with strangers in front of him. This story allowed the government to suddenly understand the emotional ties and the belonging that this indigenous community had with the land. I am going to speak about how people can leverage social media and digital communications to tell stories and find common ground and\/or understanding.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Monica Anderson, Skye Toor, Lee Rainie, and Aaron Smith speak in \u201cPublic Attitudes Toward Political Engagement on Social Media\u201d<\/a> on how the internet has become a place for individuals to reach a large audience regarding important and sometimes controversial topics. This group describes digital literature platforms as a \u201ckey venue\u201d for these conversations. These platforms allow people to listen to stories that they were not initially aware that they wanted to or were ready to listen to. Social media provides a place for people to stumble across personal stories and issues that otherwise would not have been seen unless being looked for. Readers tend to be more inclined to stories written by the source as opposed to by a third party. Individuals turn blind eyes to topics that they are uncomfortable with or have conservative stances on but with digital literature, naiveness is not an option.<\/span><\/p>\n

To answer the second part of this complex question, hyperlinks are an optional contribution to a text that only those interested in enough will decide to click. They are virtually non existent beyond their underline until the reader cares to look further. Hyperlinks provide further context to literature and story and allow a reader who is uneducated on the particular topic to become otherwise and further understand.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Thank you for reading my blog! I look forward to reading yours!<\/p>\n

Anderson, M., Toor, S., Rainie, L., & Smith, A. (2019, December 31). Activism in the Social Media Age. Retrieved from https:\/\/www.pewresearch.org\/internet\/2018\/07\/11\/public-attitudes-toward-political-engagement-on-social-media\/<\/div>\n
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Chamberlin, J. E. (2006).\u00a0If this is your land, where are your stories?: finding common ground<\/i>. Manchester: Carcanet.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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