Digital Literature and Big Knowledge: The Case of Sociological Comics

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.

Keywords

• experimental fiction
• Big Knowledge
• sociological comics
• knowledge base
• hybrimedia