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New and Strange Sorts of Texts: The Shaping and Reshaping of Digital and Multimodal Books and Young Adult Novels

New and Strange Sorts of Texts: The Shaping and Reshaping of Digital and Multimodal Books and Young Adult Novels

Melanie Kittrell Hundley, Teri Holbrook
Copyright: © 2016 |Pages: 30
ISBN13: 9781466683105|ISBN10: 1466683104|EISBN13: 9781466683112
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-8310-5.ch018
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Hundley, Melanie Kittrell, and Teri Holbrook. "New and Strange Sorts of Texts: The Shaping and Reshaping of Digital and Multimodal Books and Young Adult Novels." Handbook of Research on the Societal Impact of Digital Media, edited by Barbara Guzzetti and Mellinee Lesley, IGI Global, 2016, pp. 437-466. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-8310-5.ch018

APA

Hundley, M. K. & Holbrook, T. (2016). New and Strange Sorts of Texts: The Shaping and Reshaping of Digital and Multimodal Books and Young Adult Novels. In B. Guzzetti & M. Lesley (Eds.), Handbook of Research on the Societal Impact of Digital Media (pp. 437-466). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-8310-5.ch018

Chicago

Hundley, Melanie Kittrell, and Teri Holbrook. "New and Strange Sorts of Texts: The Shaping and Reshaping of Digital and Multimodal Books and Young Adult Novels." In Handbook of Research on the Societal Impact of Digital Media, edited by Barbara Guzzetti and Mellinee Lesley, 437-466. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2016. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-8310-5.ch018

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Abstract

Dennis Baron (1999) writes about the impact of digital technology on literacy practices and thus is a good exemplar for considering how communication technologies are changing the ways in which stories are told. In this chapter, we argue that young adult literature authors and readers are currently in what Baron terms an inventive stage as they devise new ways of producing storied texts. Young adult authors, aware of their readers as avid, exploring, and savvy tech users, experiment with text formats to appeal to readers growing up in a digital “participatory culture” (Jenkins, Purushotma, Weigel, Clinton & Robins, 2009). In a cultural climate where the very notion of what constitutes a book is changing, our chapter responds to Baron's (2009) claim that readers and writers are in the process of “[learning] to trust a new technology and the new and strange sorts of texts that it produces” (p. x).

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