Abstract
In order to face the overwhelming process of Big Knowledge, it is possible to suggest experimental fictions that may help to understand and deal with our knowledge society and culture. The present paper suggests a mode of digital literature named ‘Sociological Comics’, which analyses a political struggle through its story. Under a genre perspective, it fusions sociological knowledge with comics narrative to tell such story. This Sociological Comics example was selected from a corpus of fictional digital texts we included within an archive and Knowledge Base using Hybrimedia. Hybrimedia means the transformation via hybridization of originating media into innovative media. For instance, a post in a blog or a comment in a social network may be reported within a classical mass media e.g. a newspaper, or vice versa. This process actually changes the very nature of these information or knowledge messages.
Highlights
DIGITAL LITERATURE AND BIG KNOWLEDGEThe information society, for decades, has produced cyclopean amounts of data, a phenomenon known as Big Data
Today Big Data becomes Big Knowledge, a strategy that overcomes some shortcomings of Big Data but simultaneously raises others
The present paper suggests a style of digital literature named Sociological Comics, that: (a) within a substantive or content level, produces a fiction on knowledge; (b) and, from a stylistic and genre perspective, uses a specific configuration of knowledge to tell a story
Summary
The information society, for decades, has produced cyclopean amounts of data, a phenomenon known as Big Data. The present paper suggests a style of digital literature named Sociological Comics, that: (a) within a substantive or content level, produces a fiction on knowledge; (b) and, from a stylistic and genre perspective, uses a specific configuration of knowledge (the comics narrative) to tell a story. This Sociological Comics example was selected from a corpus of fictional digital texts we included within an archive and Knowledge Base using Hybrimedia. The writer becomes his own conscience, initial reader and first critic
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