Social media and (new) technology in 2010's Finnish children's and young adult literature
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Funds granted by main funder (€)
- 30 000,00
Project timetable
Project start date: 01/03/2021
Project end date: 31/03/2024
Summary
The post-doctoral research examines how social media and related technology are represented in 2010’s Finnish children’s and young adult literature. The starting point of the project is the observation that social media is not only an internal element of the storyworld, subordinate to characters and events, but it also has an impact on narration, narrative devices and narrative structures. The key argument is that the utilization of media phenomena and their conventions familiar from everyday life as literary devices not only functions as an adhesive surface that enables the reader to identify with the storyworld, but also dramatizes both the social, communicative and cultural change that has taken place in recent decades, and the mediation of the society.
The main theoretical framework of the research is intermedial narrative theory. The analysis will focus on 1) the intermedial narrative potential of textual and visual elements, 2) explicit references and connections between the book object and other media forms, and 3) the formation of different media representations through written narration. Fictional narratives nuanced by social media is also examined in relation to the experimental literature. Just as experimental methods can reform literature and broaden the understanding of literature, social media as an expressive resource can reform and modify the range of narrative devices and the principles of the construction of the narrative in a unique way.
The aim of the project is to open new perspectives on both children’s and young adult literature, and literary experimentation. In addition, the project develops an approach that help us to analyze and conceptualize text that not only combine different semiotic means of expression regardless of media platform, but also exploit the multimodal, material and medial possibilities of the book object. Through these aims, the study seeks to increase understanding of the diversity of literary fiction and the dynamics of construction and reading of texts that combine textual and visual material.
The main theoretical framework of the research is intermedial narrative theory. The analysis will focus on 1) the intermedial narrative potential of textual and visual elements, 2) explicit references and connections between the book object and other media forms, and 3) the formation of different media representations through written narration. Fictional narratives nuanced by social media is also examined in relation to the experimental literature. Just as experimental methods can reform literature and broaden the understanding of literature, social media as an expressive resource can reform and modify the range of narrative devices and the principles of the construction of the narrative in a unique way.
The aim of the project is to open new perspectives on both children’s and young adult literature, and literary experimentation. In addition, the project develops an approach that help us to analyze and conceptualize text that not only combine different semiotic means of expression regardless of media platform, but also exploit the multimodal, material and medial possibilities of the book object. Through these aims, the study seeks to increase understanding of the diversity of literary fiction and the dynamics of construction and reading of texts that combine textual and visual material.
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Related publications and other outputs
- Ajan takaa aikamme paradokseja : sosiaalinen media jättää jälkensä kirjallisuuteen (2023) Marttinen, Heta; E1
- ”Ystävät on hetkellisiä, mutta levelit ikuisia” : pelaamisen representoituminen ja merkityksellistäminen Aleksi Delikouraksen Nörtti-kirjasarjassa ja Annukka Salaman romaanissa Ripley: Nopea yhteys (2023) Marttinen, Heta; A1; OA
- ”Vad ska man göra när folk är offline?” : sähköposti, sosiaalinen media ja vuorovaikutuksen dynamiikka Kaj Korkea-ahon ja Ted Forsströmin nuortenromaanisarjassa Zoo! (2021) Marttinen, Heta; A1; OA
