Radical? Sustaining? Disruptive?: Critical Media Literacy in Digital and Blended Texts

Type of Presentation

Individual presentation

Brief Description of Presentation

Can blending traditional print and digital element to young adult literature prove to be both sustaining AND disruptive? In what ways can analyzing blended literature through Dresang and Christensen concepts foster critical understanding? This presentation will discuss these ideas.

Abstract of Proposal

Since 2006, the field of traditional and digital Young Adult literature—in both form of literature and manner of delivery to readership—has rapidly changed as technology has advanced. Today, texts are incorporate new technologies within the structure of the narrative, authors of other books discuss issues stemming from living in a technologically-based society. The field of YA Literature and the technology has surged at such a pace that a (re)consideration of the literature, form, and readership, is vital. I will specifically examines form and narrative in internet texts such as inanimatealice.com and compares this text to hybrid literature (such as The Skeleton Creek series by Patrick Carmen) and texts with alternate reality games (like the Cathy series by Sean Stewart and Jordan Weisman) to unearth the ways technology and tradition texts are sharing a new generation of readers, reflecting a life lived - and therefore stories told - with technology as a character within the story and a means by which the story is told. I will consider how these texts are view through Dresang’s theory of Radical Change to discuss the digital aspects contained in the print texts under consideration. In addition, I analyze if the blend of traditional print texts and digital texts become sustaining or disruptive technology through Christensen’s ideas expressed The Innovator's Dilemma (1997). Can blending traditional print and digital element to young adult literature prove to be both sustaining AND disruptive? In what ways can analyzing blended literature through Dresang and Christensen concepts foster critical understanding?

Location

Coastal Georgia Center

Start Date

3-26-2016 9:50 AM

End Date

3-26-2016 11:20 AM

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Radical? Sustaining? Disruptive?: Critical Media Literacy in Digital and Blended Texts

Coastal Georgia Center

Since 2006, the field of traditional and digital Young Adult literature—in both form of literature and manner of delivery to readership—has rapidly changed as technology has advanced. Today, texts are incorporate new technologies within the structure of the narrative, authors of other books discuss issues stemming from living in a technologically-based society. The field of YA Literature and the technology has surged at such a pace that a (re)consideration of the literature, form, and readership, is vital. I will specifically examines form and narrative in internet texts such as inanimatealice.com and compares this text to hybrid literature (such as The Skeleton Creek series by Patrick Carmen) and texts with alternate reality games (like the Cathy series by Sean Stewart and Jordan Weisman) to unearth the ways technology and tradition texts are sharing a new generation of readers, reflecting a life lived - and therefore stories told - with technology as a character within the story and a means by which the story is told. I will consider how these texts are view through Dresang’s theory of Radical Change to discuss the digital aspects contained in the print texts under consideration. In addition, I analyze if the blend of traditional print texts and digital texts become sustaining or disruptive technology through Christensen’s ideas expressed The Innovator's Dilemma (1997). Can blending traditional print and digital element to young adult literature prove to be both sustaining AND disruptive? In what ways can analyzing blended literature through Dresang and Christensen concepts foster critical understanding?