Understanding Cosmo-Literature
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Reham Hosny
Abstract
The central objective of this paper is to provide a new conceptual theoretical framework starting from the role of new new media in shaping a new kind of literature, which I call Cosmo-Literature. Towards this, I start working from Levinson’s differentiation among old media, new media, and new new media to arrive at the difference among the variable types of media. Next, I address the role of new new media in establishing world democracies and changing the social, cultural, and political world map. After that, I investigate the terms of “global village” and “cosmopolitanism” in relation to literature. To clarify what I mean by Cosmo Literature, I will investigate two new new media novels: Only One Millimeter Away, an Arabic Facebook novel by the Moroccan novelist Abdel-Wahid Stitu, and Hearts, Keys and Puppetry an English Twitter novel by Neil Gaiman, to infer the characteristics of Cosmo-Literature in general and Cosmo narration in particular.
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Artikel in diesem Heft
- Titelei
- Content
- Introduction
- I. Digital Citizenship: Historical and Methodological Overview
- Mapping a Changing Field
- The Ironies of Digital Citizenship
- II. Digital Literacy and Social Regulation
- The New Media, the Youth and Renegotiation of Ethnic and Religious Identity in Nigeria
- Cognition On Tap
- III. Witnessing, Hacking, Commoning
- Platform Humanism and Internal Opacity
- “Going Rogue”
- Beyond Technological Literacy
- IV. Cultural Participation
- Understanding Cosmo-Literature
- Letters from the Future
- Biographical Notes
Artikel in diesem Heft
- Titelei
- Content
- Introduction
- I. Digital Citizenship: Historical and Methodological Overview
- Mapping a Changing Field
- The Ironies of Digital Citizenship
- II. Digital Literacy and Social Regulation
- The New Media, the Youth and Renegotiation of Ethnic and Religious Identity in Nigeria
- Cognition On Tap
- III. Witnessing, Hacking, Commoning
- Platform Humanism and Internal Opacity
- “Going Rogue”
- Beyond Technological Literacy
- IV. Cultural Participation
- Understanding Cosmo-Literature
- Letters from the Future
- Biographical Notes
