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Journal articles on the topic "Blogs – Fiction"
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P., Reethi, and Dr Milon Franz. "Himalayan Dreams-Travel Blogs as Cultural Constructs in Post -Truth Era." SMART MOVES JOURNAL IJELLH 9, no. 1 (January 28, 2021): 233–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.24113/ijellh.v9i1.10895.
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Travel blogs can be considered as alternative literature. Travel blogs are the digitised version of travelogues or travel narratives. The blogs give impressive, cost effective and immediate impressions of travel. Earlier, the traveller prepares notes during the travel and writes it after reaching his native place. It involves revisualising the entire trip and jotting down the entire memories. The narration adds the real and the images he visualized. The narration will be a mix of myths and personal perspectives. The blogs are live reports of the travel. The rationale of the study understands the digital space and the awareness of “truth”. In the post truth era frontiers are blurred between truth and lie, honesty and dishonesty, fiction and non fiction.
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Savolainen, Reijo. "Sharing information through book reviews in blogs." Journal of Documentation 76, no. 2 (December 3, 2019): 440–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/jd-08-2019-0161.
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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to contribute to research on information sharing by drawing on the reader-response theory developed by Louise Rosenblatt. To this end, information sharing is approached by examining how bloggers communicate their reading experiences of fiction and non-fiction books. Design/methodology/approach The conceptual framework is based on the differentiation between efferent and aesthetic reading stances specified by Rosenblatt. The efferent stance directs attention to what is to be extracted from reading for instrumental purposes such as task performance. The aesthetic stance focuses on what is being lived through during the reading event. Rosenblatt’s framework was elaborated by specifying eight categories of efferent reading and six categories of aesthetic reading. The ways in which bloggers communicate their responses to such readings were examined by scrutinising a sample of 300 posts from two book blogs. Findings The bloggers mainly articulated responses to efferent reading by sharing information about the content of the reviewed books, as well as their strengths and weaknesses. Responses to aesthetic reading were mainly articulated by describing how the bloggers experienced the narrative, what kind immersive experiences they had and what kind of emotions were felt during the reading process. Research limitations/implications As the study is explorative in nature and focusses on a sample of blog posts, the findings cannot be generalised to depict how people share their responses to efferent and aesthetic reading in social media forums. Originality/value The paper pioneers by examining the potential of Rosenblatt’s theory in the study of sharing information about reading experiences in book blogs. The findings demonstrate that the categories of efferent and aesthetic reading can be elaborated further for the needs of information behaviour research.
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Sutton, Kim Maya, and Ina Paulfeuerborn. "The Influence of Book Blogs on the Buying Decisions of German Readers." Logos 28, no. 1 (June 8, 2017): 45–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/1878-4712-11112124.
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In October 2014, over 200 million blogs were registered on the platform Tumblr alone. In 2015, hundreds of book blogs in the blogosphere concentrated on literature and published reviews, cover designs, direct insights from publishers, author interviews, and competitions. Based on the research question ‘Do literature blogs have an influence on the buying decisions of readers?’ quantitative research was carried out in Germany at the beginning of 2016. The focus of the research was book blogs targeting readers of light fiction. A survey was sent to online portals, such as Lovelybooks, and thereby distributed to readers. Literature bloggers were also asked to participate by forwarding the survey to their followers. The survey gives insight into readers’ motivation to visit literature blogs. Furthermore, it highlights what kind of information readers want to find on such blogs, and how blogs can influence readers’ buying behaviour. The findings of the survey are compared with a model for buying decisions. The findings will be helpful for publishers, self-publishers, book trade, and bloggers. The most obvious limitation of the survey is the geographic limitation to Germany and its book market; however, the survey could easily be translated and extended to include other markets.
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Cato, Sarah, Amanda McWhirt, and Lizzy Herrera. "Combating Horticultural Misinformation through Integrated Online Campaigns Using Social Media, Graphics Interchange Format, and Blogs." HortTechnology 32, no. 4 (August 2022): 342–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.21273/horttech05009-22.
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Misinformation relating to horticulture can spread quickly among laypersons. Although some misinformation may be harmless, such as the myth that bell pepper (Capsicum annuum) fruit can be either male or female, other misinformation is generated to sway consumer decisions. The demand from Cooperative Extension Service (CES) agents for support to combat the spread of horticultural misinformation, horticulture specialists at the University of Arkansas System Division of Agriculture Cooperative Extension Service (UACES) created a “Horticulture Fact or Fiction” series of blog posts that targeted common horticulture myths with science-based explanations and used graphics interchange format (GIFs) to promote the blog posts on social media. The integrated social media campaign was shared on the authors’ UACES Horticulture social media accounts and by eight UACES agents during 2021. The effort reached 13,397 social media users, and the blog posts had a total of 45,544 pageviews. Although social media was not the major driver of traffic to the blog post series, GIF-based outreach on social media did direct more than 1000 additional users to the blog posts. Through this integrated approach of using social media and GIFs shared by both specialists and CES agents, we were able to connect a large number of stakeholders to research-based content, resulting in higher average traffic to our webpage-based blogs than the average UACES webpage. This type of integrated approach using multiple online means of communication including GIFs, blogs, and social media to create a toolkit of resources for CES agents may be useful for extension professionals targeting stakeholders online.
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Vargolomova, Diana. "Becoming a Non-Other. Emigrant Narratives as an Integration Strategy." Rhetoric and Communications, no. 50 (January 22, 2022): 36–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.55206/dkrn6317.
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Abstract: Constructing a reality out of language has been a recurrent experience of humanity since the first creative usage of language. When a narrative practice is used as a self-reflection and self-construction in a non-fiction manner, the result is blending real-world events, situations, and places with a subjective worldview, and consequentially redefining one’s perception of these events, situations, and places (see for example Ricoeur 2009, Barton 2010, Linde 1993). It is interesting how telling a story of the self is used to reduce the subjective perception of otherness in conditions of recent immigration, a practice very well observed in Italian emigrant letters at the beginning of the XX s. (Franzina 1994). A contemporary case of such a practice are the emigrants’ online diaries in the form of blogs, Instagram stories, Facebook pages. Here we propose an example of how multimodal online narratives are used as a rite of passage from a condition of a subjective perception of otherness to a situation of becoming a less- other or even a non-other. For this ongoing research three Italian bloggers, living in the United States, are followed for 10 years in their experience of writing and videoblogging through blog platforms, Instagram, and Facebook. Keywords: emigration, multimodality, digital narratives, blogs, egodocuments, identity.
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Late, Elina, Carol Tenopir, Sanna Talja, and Lisa Christian. "Reading practices in scholarly work: from articles and books to blogs." Journal of Documentation 75, no. 3 (May 13, 2019): 478–99. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/jd-11-2018-0178.
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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the role of reading in scholarly work among academics in Finland. This study analyzes readings from a variety of publication types including books, conference proceedings, research reports, magazines, newspapers, blogs, non-fiction and fiction. Design/methodology/approach An online survey was developed and distributed in Finland in 2016–2017 (n=528). Participants were asked their finding and use of scholarly information resources of all types. Findings Scholars read from a variety of publications. Different types of publications are read and used differently. Reading also varies between disciplines, ranks, work responsibilities and type of research performed. Research limitations/implications The study was a nationwide study of researchers in Finland; therefore, all findings are within the context of researchers in a single country. All results are self-reported; therefore, the authors assume but cannot be sure that respondents accurately recollect the specifics of their use of scholarly information. Practical implications The results of this study are relevant to publishers, research librarians, editors and others who serve consumers of scholarly information resources, design information products and services for those scholars, and seek to better understand the information needs and use of a variety of types of scholarly publications. Originality/value This study replicates previous studies in a variety of countries and provides a more up-to-date and single-country contextualized overview of how researchers find and use scholarly information in their work.
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Widlitzki, Bianca. "Talk talk, not just small talk. Exploring English contrastive focus reduplication with the help of corpora." ICAME Journal 40, no. 1 (March 1, 2016): 119–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/icame-2016-0008.
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Abstract Contrastive focus reduplication (CR) is a type of reduplication in English which picks out a prototypical or intensified reading of the reduplicated element and shows contrastive stress on the reduplicant: for instance, speakers may use talk talk to indicate that a ‘real talk’ - as opposed to e.g. ‘just small talk’- took place. The present paper pursues an empirical, corpus-linguistic approach to CR: Based on three mega-corpora of contemporary English, the following aspects in particular are investigated: the importance of the co-text of CR, the possibility of emerging default interpretations for some frequent CRs, and the function(s) CR serves in discourse. In addition, it contains the first analysis of the sociolinguistics of the phenomenon, based on a corpus of blogs. It emerges that contrasts and/or synonyms are commonly employed to clarify the meaning of CR - most frequently in the form of the unreduplicated base (not talk, but talk talk) or an explanatory phrase (talk talk, by which I mean a serious conversation). CR is most frequent in blogs maintained by women and by young speakers. Its presence in blogs shows that CR is not limited to (fictional representations of) spoken dialogue. Though generally rare, it is also found in other genres (such as fiction, news, and even academic prose). Apart from its disambiguating function, CR is also used for creative purposes (as a kind of wordplay) and apparently serves to build rapport between interlocutors (or bloggers and readers) via reference to common ground.
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Peters, Fiona. "True Crime Narratives." Crime Fiction Studies 1, no. 1 (March 2020): 23–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/cfs.2020.0005.
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This article investigates the contemporary fascination with true crime narratives, an subject which is fast becoming a central area of interest in crime fiction studies. As the overarching genre of crime fiction itself becomes the most read literature genre, not to mention its growing popularity in other popular cultural mediums – TV, film, documentary, podcast, blogs, etc., true crime – which has always been a popular sub-genre – is arguably moving centre stage aligned to our recent obsession with the real life figure of the serial killer. The usual discussions of both individual and collective obsession and fascination with such topics, is generally limited to arguments within conscious parameters of ethical choice, This paper will explore an alterative reading that introduces the Lacanian psychoanalytic concepts of the sinthome and jouissance, and argues that any reading of these topics cannot be contained within conceptions of rationality and ethical choice.
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Lobo, Luiza. "Existentialism, Ontology, and Mysticism in Clarice Lispector’s A descoberta do mundo." Journal of Lusophone Studies 4, no. 2 (January 1, 2020): 56–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.21471/jls.v4i2.335.
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This article aims to place Clarice Lispector as the inventor of a new type of newspaper chronicle. The style of her 468 chronicles published weekly in Jornal do Brasil, from 1967 to 1973, and collected in the book A descoberta do mundo (1984), differs from that of her contemporary male chroniclers, such as Rubem Braga, Paulo Mendes Campos, Fernando Sabino, and Otto Lara Resende, or even women chroniclers, such as Rachel de Queiroz and Dinah Silveira de Queiroz. Mingling Sartre’s existentialism and Heidegger’s phenomenology with the Jewish mysticism learned as a child enabled Lispector to write in a style that pioneered modern women’s prose fiction in Brazil after 1970. This article argues that fragmentation and hybridization are the marks of her “discovery” of a new world as a woman writer, making her crônicas predecessors of today’s women’s blogs.
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Alekhina, O. A., and L. E. Ukolova. "Cinematography as One of the Methods of Forming the Information Space of Aerospace Industry Organizations in Russia." Communicology 8, no. 1 (March 31, 2020): 155–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.21453/2311-3065-2020-8-1-155-166.
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The authors consider the peculiarities of using cinematographic genres in communication activities by organizations of aerospace industry. As organizations form an information space around them, it is important that the information that is present in it is positive and allows them to effectively influence the key audience. In today’s environment, information broadcast by traditional media is perceived with less interest. Therefore, organizations have to look for and develop new communication channels such as social networks, blogs, etc. Cinematography is of particular importance. It allows to realize such functions as entertainment, information, education, organization of social community, education. In the aerospace field, the implementation of an effective impact on the target audience has its own peculiarities, as this industry is strategically important for the country, potentially crisis-prone, and it is constantly riveted on public and media attention. In addition, the dissemination of certain information may be restricted by classifying data as part of a government, commercial or other secret specifically protected by law. Cinematographic works as a means of forming the information space of aerospace industry organizations in Russia are effective. They are used to form a positive image of the industry, organizations, professions, to promote products and services. Full-length and short films created in fiction and non-fiction genres allow transforming ways of interaction between communicator and audience, expanding communicative possibilities of space, accelerating information exchange.
Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Blogs – Fiction"
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Cleger, Osvaldo. "El Arte de Narrar en la Era de las Blogoficciones: Una Aproximacion Interdisciplinaria a la Literatura en los Blogs." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/195521.
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This dissertation constitutes an interdisciplinary approach to electronic narratives, which explores the impact of recent technological developments in the literary field. The work of theorists and scholars such as Henry Jenkins, Jean Baudrillard, Lev Manovich, Albert-Laszlo Barabasi, Erving Goffman, Sherry Turkle, George Landow, Marie-Laure Ryan and Espen Aarseth, among many others, are applied to the study of how key sociological and narratological concepts acquire new meanings when implemented in an electronic environment. More specifically, this research provides evidence of how emerging media culture challenges the traditional concepts of authorship, textuality, fictionality, sequential structure, and readership, with tendencies toward anonimity, pseudonymity, collaborative authorship, hypertextual narrative structures, and the reader's involvement in the creative process. Chapter One lays out the methodology used for the study of blog-fictions. This chapter proposes an interdisciplinary approach to blogging which combines the contributions made in several fields of study within digital humanities: computer-mediated communication theory, hypertext theory, Internet ethnography, social network theory, narratology of hypertext, research on blogging and Web 2.0, ludology and performance studies. The purpose of this chapter is to conceptualize the study of blog-fictions both as an expression of information society in its current state, and as a new fictional genre that challenges traditional narrative concepts. In Chapter Two ("Blogosphere: a network of social convergences"), the center of analysis concerns the study of the blogger as a social type who reproduces its social life on the Internet. This chapter studies the peculiar and new ways in which bloggers communicate with each other and create social networks through the production and distribution of texts, hyperlinks, and multimedia artifacts. Chapter Three presents a theory of the blog-text focussing on its structure and defining features. Finally, Chapter Four analyzes how the socio-aesthetic and narrative concepts studied in previous chapters are reflected in blog-novels written in Spanish by Argentinean author Hernan Casciari. This research contributes to literary studies in general by acknowledging that electronic fictions and blog-fictions constitute an emerging literary genre with its own identifiable features, and are molded by the culture of the information society.
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Mass-Torres, Roger-Bryan. "VideoBlog y narratividad. Tres casos nacionales : what da faq show, Andynsane y Brunoacme." Bachelor's thesis, Universidad de Lima, 2016. http://repositorio.ulima.edu.pe/handle/ulima/2989.
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Internet está siendo testigo de la legitimación y desarrollo de un nuevo formato audiovisual, el tube, que se diferencia de otros por su fuerte interacción con el público, la participación democrática y la espontaneidad de un contenido pensado especialmente para un tipo de consumidor que llamaremos vlog-adicto. Este análisis indaga la manera como tres Youtubers o videoblogers desarrollan su narrativad, dándole interés al recurso del monólogo, para ello se abordan los siguientes casos del Perú: ?What da faq Show?, ?Andynsane? y ?Bruno Acme?, a través de los cuales revisamos tanto conceptos tradicionales como novedosas aplicaciones e influencias.Trabajo de investigación
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MEIRE, RAFAEL DE PAULA TAVEIRA RODRIGUEZ. "WITH BLOWS FROM MACHADO: FICTIONS, STYLES AND OBJECTS." PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIRO, 2017. http://www.maxwell.vrac.puc-rio.br/Busca_etds.php?strSecao=resultado&nrSeq=30657@1.
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PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIROCOORDENAÇÃO DE APERFEIÇOAMENTO DO PESSOAL DE ENSINO SUPERIOR
PROGRAMA DE SUPORTE À PÓS-GRADUAÇÃO DE INSTS. DE ENSINO
PROGRAMA DE DOUTORADO SANDUÍCHE NO EXTERIOR
Esta tese propõe investigações sobre as relações entre as noções de estilo e agência dos objetos, tomando como intercessores privilegiados, nos termos de Gilles Deleuze, narrativas curtas e fragmentos da obra de Machado de Assis. A escolha por se trabalhar com contos desse autor se dá pelo fato de, aí, surpreenderem-se linhas de força e problemas que, singularmente corporificados na escrita machadiana, permitem contágios fecundos com certas vertentes do pensamento contemporâneo. A tese explora, em especial, a potência dos contos escolhidos para catalisar os debates hoje travados em torno da revisão filosófica e antropológica da partição natureza-cultura no ocidente. O trabalho de criação teórica aqui empreendido busca relacionar, nesse âmbito, os tópicos da vida dos objetos (agora saídos do mundo dito inanimado e dotados de agência) e do estilo (noção que, na contramão de definições clássicas estritamente textuais, compreende-se agora como embate de forças produzido nas relações entre corpos provenientes de domínios heterogêneos). Em conexão com o trabalho teórico, a tese propõe, ainda, revisões críticas de alguns vetores comumente atribuídos à ficção machadiana, tais como a desvalorização do mundo das aparências, a centralidade de valores eminentemente modernos, e o pessimismo. Buscando alimentar a discussão também por meio de suas próprias estratégias de composição, a tese explora possibilidades de trânsito entre o ensaístico e o epistolar.
This thesis proposes investigations into the relationships between the concepts of style, and the agency of objects, taking as privileged intercessors, in Gilles Deleuze s words, short narratives and fragments from the work of Machado de Assis. The choice of working with this author s short stories is due to the fact that they present guidelines and problems that, uniquely embodied in Machado s writing, allow fertile contagion with certain strands of contemporary thought. The thesis approaches, especially, the strength of the chosen short stories in order to catalyze the debates held today around the philosophical and anthropological revision of the partition between nature and culture in the West. The work of theoretical creation undertaken here seeks to relate, in this context, the topics of the life of objects (now out of the so-called inanimate world and endowed with agency) and style (a notion which, contrary to strictly textual classic definitions, is now understood as a clash of forces produced in the relations between bodies from heterogeneous domains). In connection with the theoretical work, this thesis also proposes critical revisions of certain aspects commonly attributed to Machado s fiction, such as the devaluation of the world of appearances, the centrality of eminently modern values, and pessimism. Seeking to fuel the debate, also by means of its own composition strategies, the thesis explores the possibilities of transit between the essayistic and epistolary genres.
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Segar, Emma. "Blog fiction : the relational poetics of a distributed narrative form." Thesis, Edge Hill University, 2015. http://repository.edgehill.ac.uk/7764/.
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This analysis explores blog fiction as a distributed narrative form, and the relational nature of the reading and writing processes that shape its poetics. It does this primarily through the analysis of Bad Influences1, the blog fiction that forms the creative part of this thesis. Bad Influences tells a disaster story distributed over four separate fictional blogs, exploring online identities, friendships, and how our relations to the world and our communities are shaped by the stories we tell about ourselves. Jill Walker Rettberg’s ideas on distributed narrative are used to investigate blog fiction’s distributions in time, space and authorship, and how these affect its narrative time, linearity, interactivity and poetics. The processes of writing and posting Bad Influences, and engaging with its readers, show how the use of the blog as a medium determines the characteristics of blog fiction as a form, and how the relations that emerge between readers, writers and the text produce, in Aukje van Rooden’s term, a relational poetics. This analysis concludes with an application of relational poetics to blog fiction and digital interactive fiction in general, touching upon emerging forms of fiction on social media platforms (e.g. Twitter fiction and interactive multiplayer narrative apps), in which relational processes are an essential component of the text, rather than simply a means to its access.
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Souza, José Glaydson Pereira de. "Blogs de personagens de telenovelas: convergências entre o real e o ficcional." Universidade Federal da Paraíba, 2014. http://tede.biblioteca.ufpb.br:8080/handle/tede/7910.
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The convergence culture has led to significant changes in the forms of production and consumption of fictional narratives. In this context, the blogs of characters emerge as one of the forms of narratives that lead transmídias the fictional TV content into cyberspace. Thus, it is important to analyze the configuration of this new communications ambience involving fictional narratives and not fictional, character and surfer, as well as the relationship that builds between them. Thus, this dissertation is to investigate general purpose, in the process of transmediação of soap operas for internet, similarities between the fictional and the real. We selected as the unit of analysis Blog Indra, the soap opera “Caminho das Índias” (Passage to Indias) (Rede Globo, 2009). The specific research objectives were: to analyze, from blog posts as they are constructed identity of the character and the identity profile of the public; identify the forms of sociality explored at the blog for the relationship characters/public and investigate how these forms of sociality promote convergences between presential and fictional world. The research, qualitative and interpretative nature, was conducted in two stages. At first, with reference to the concept of “Communication Contract” (CHARADEAU 2006, 2012), we did a descriptive and discursive approach to the blog, in which we demonstrate how the television narrative, blog, articulates the fictional and non-fictional. In the second step, we seek to understand the forms of sociality involved in the blo g, from the notions of presenteism (emphasis on everyday), ethics, aesthetics (sense of belonging) and tribalism (IDs). In this direction, we seek theoretical support in the comprehensive sociology of Michel Meffesoli (MAFESOLLI, 2007, 2010). The analysis of the posts in the first phase showed us that the identity of the character becomes Indra from discursive strategies that "simulate" the existence of a "blogger real world", being the identity profile of the Internet audience designed according to this perspective. The second step of the analysis showed that the identification of Internet users with the character extends to the "everyday" presented on the blog, thus indicating that the public creates links with the fictional: also sharing their stories, their feelings and affinities. Accordingly, we conclude that sociality is a majo r factor on the similarities between the fictional and the real of transmedia narratives.
A cultura da convergência vem provocando significativas transformações nas formas de produção e consumo de narrativas ficcionais. Nesse contexto, os blogs de personagens surgem como uma das formas de narrativas transmídias que levam o conteúdo ficcional da TV para o ciberespaço. Desse modo, faz-se relevante analisar como se configura essa nova ambiência comunicacional envolvendo narrativas ficcionais e não ficcionais, personagem e internauta, bem como a relação que se constrói entre ambos. Nesse sentido, esta dissertação tem como propósito geral investigar, no processo de transmediação das telenovelas para a internet, convergências entre o ficcional e o real. Para tanto, selecionamos como unidade de análise o Blog do Indra, da Telenovela Caminho das Índias (Rede Globo, 2009). Os objetivos específicos da pesquisa foram: analisar, a partir das postagens no blog, como são construídas a identidade do personagem e o perfil identitário do público; identificar as formas de socialidade deflagradas no blog para a relação personagens/público e investigar como essas formas de socialidade promovem convergências entre o mundo presencial e o ficcional. A pesquisa, de natureza qualitativa e interpretativa, foi realizada em duas etapas. Na primeira, tendo com referência o conceito de Contrato de Comunicação (CHARADEAU, 2006, 2012), fizemos uma abordagem descritiva e discursiva do blog, na qual demonstramos como a narrativa televisiva, no blog, articula o ficcional e o não ficcional. Na segunda etapa, buscamos compreender as formas de socialidade implicadas no blog, a partir das noções de presenteísmo (ênfase no cotidiano), ética da estética (sentimento de partilha) e tribalismo (identificações). Nessa direção, buscamos aporte teórico na sociologia compreensiva de Michel Maffesoli (MAFESOLLI, 2007, 2010). A análise das postagens na primeira fase nos mostrou que a identidade do personagem Indra se faz a partir de estrat égias discursivas que “simulam” a existência de um “blogueiro do mundo real”, sendo o perfil identitário do público internauta projetado em função desta perspectiva. A segunda etapa da análise demonstrou que a identificação dos internautas com o personagem se estende ao “cotidiano” apresentado no blog, indicando assim que o público cria vínculos com o ficcional: compartilhando, também, suas histórias, seus sentimentos e afinidades. Nesse sentido, concluímos que a socialidade é um fator preponderante nas convergências entre o ficcional e o real das narrativas transmidiáticas.
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Goldberg, James Arthur. "Drink Me, or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Blog." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2010. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/2161.
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Language itself is a technology, and the advent of each major technology of language transmission (from the alphabet to the printing press to the Internet) has changed the range of speaker-audience dynamics which are the starting point for all creative writing. In this thesis, a writer, armed only with his blog archives and a smattering of John Tenniel illustrations, guides the curious reader through various issues raised by creative writing in the blog form. Topics discussed include self-presentation, the juxtaposed brevity and expansiveness of online texts, nonlinear reading, alternative models for revision, the literary possibilities of the hyperlink, speaker-audience-time relationships in online settings, the future of ephemerality, the possibility of digital street theatre, and croquet with live balls and sticks. Also discussed are: the end of the world, the Partition of India, the political ramifications of labels replacing folders, my great-aunt's death, Wynton Marsalis, Jewish Vikings, democracy in Kahanistan, Saparmurat Niyazov, Elvis Costello, Sheikh Hasina, and the virtues of walking to church. This thesis also contains several introductions, an acknowledgements page, and more chapters than I care to count. A five-dollar bill may or may not be hidden between the digital pages of this thesis.
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Johansson, Cecilia. "Högstadieungdomar skriver historia på bloggen : undervisning, literacy och historiemedvetande i ett nytt medielandskap." Licentiate thesis, Umeå universitet, Institutionen för idé- och samhällsstudier, 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:du-16672.
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The purpose of this thesis is to study the literacy formed when a class blog is used as a tool for students studying history and explore how this particular literacy is used to generate historical knowledge. The study was conducted during the course of a project in which ninth-grade students contributed entries to a common blog in the form of a diary written by individuals who experienced the Second World War. Its three major objectives were to study the students' perception of the blog in relation to their gender and level of historical knowledge; how they and their teacher esta-blished and used the formed literacy; and how the students related to this in the production of historical knowledge. In analyzing the results, a concept of literacy was used based on seven writing practices all linked to the new medium and history education. The study was based on a questionnaire, interviews and various student texts. In order to perform a content analysis on the study results a theoretical framework for historical conscious-ness was included. The results show that in using the writing practices a literacy characterized by colla-borative authorship was formed. The study concludes that this affects both what and how the students learn. Together they show each other that history is comprised of many small stories, not necessarily strictly coherent with the general history as told by their textbooks. Examining the students’ blog entries made a new learning process visible that enabled the enhancement of their historical consciousness.Under senare år har sociala medier introducerats i undervisningen som verktyg för lärande, men hur interagerar dessa nya möjligheter till kommunikation och sam-arbete med en formell undervisningssituation i historia? I Högstadieungdomar skriver historia på bloggenbeskriver och undersöker Cecilia Johansson ett möte mellan sociala medier och historieundervisningen när högstadieelever skriver inlägg i form av dagboksanteckningar från Andra Världskriget på en klassblogg. Det kollaborativa författarskap som många elever uppvisar tycks ha påverkat både hur och vad eleverna lär sig. Dessutom synliggörs en lärprocess där ett historie-medvetande ges förutsättningar att utvecklas.
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Weldon, John. "The text doesn’t stop at the end of the page (or does it?) : an exploration of how the novel form responds to digital interactivity through the cross-sited novel ‘Once in a lifetime’." Thesis, 2014. https://vuir.vu.edu.au/28813/.
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Change is a constant of storytelling, in terms of both form and content. Many scholars and commentators have argued, however, that the effects currently being wrought on fiction texts as a result of the influence of digital technology and interactivity are the most monumental that storytelling has undergone since the invention of moveable type in the mid-1400s.
Writers have wrestled with ways to include digital technology in their work since its introduction in the late 1960s. It has been used as subject matter and as a tool to shape, contain and present their work to readers. This experimentation was accelerated in the 1980s following the development of hyperfiction.
Web 2.0 and the birth of interactive social media have seen an increased focus among scholars on the ways and means by which digital interactivity has and will impact on storytelling and reading. This leads to an often-polarising debate and one which ranges in tone from apocalyptic to euphoric in response to the question of how long-form narrative in particular will fare as a result.
As a storyteller writing a novel set in a contemporary context, I became aware of the possible use-value of social media, in the form of the blog, to deliver content – in this case, inner monologue. Those sections of the novel concerned with self-reflection thereby transformed from what was originally a Socratic/Seinfeldian internal dialectic, framed through the use of second person, into something more akin to the sort of content that might be found on a blog. It was only a short step from there to a consideration of how social media might be used in the form of the work as well as in its content. This then led to an exploration of how this might change the nature of what was written, how it was read and the effects on the relationship between reader, author and character.
Through the medium of what became the cross-sited, interactive fiction ‘Once in a Lifetime’ (comprising the novel ‘Once in a Lifetime’ and the blogs Note to Elf and Hot Seat) I attempted to create a scenario whereby the effects that the incorporation of
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digital interactivity into both the narrative and the form of a novel might affect the work and the relationships between writer, reader and characters.
I wished to explore whether the introduction of interactivity to the novel might allow for the novel form to move beyond the page. Would the story continue to grow in cyberspace with input from readers, or would the novel form prove more resistant to such intervention?
Books on the topic "Blogs – Fiction"
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Les chroniques de Madame Unetelle: On ne change pas le monde avec une mijoteuse! Montréal: Québec Amérique, 2013.
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Rabley, Stephen. Le blog de Danny: Danny's blog. Kingston-upon-Thames: B small, 2008.
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Secrets from the Sleeping Bag: A Blogtastic! Novel (Blogtastic! #3). New York: Delacorte Press, 2012.
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Schmidt, Henrike. "From Samizdat to New Sincerity. Digital Literature on the Russian-Language Internet." In The Palgrave Handbook of Digital Russia Studies, 255–75. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-42855-6_15.
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AbstractDigital literature on the Russian-language Internet includes a broad variety of phenomena, from online libraries to writers’ blogs, from hypertext to Internet memes. The chapter begins by clarifying the terms “digital literature” and “Runet,” drawing on a functional understanding of literature in the tradition of Russian Formalism. It embeds Runet literary studies into global contexts and gives an overview of essential phenomena (hypertext, fan fiction, blogging) and narratives. It analyzes local discourses, which, in turn, attempt to make sense of global communication technologies, for example, by conceptualizing digital self-publishing as samizdat, that is, the historical phenomenon of clandestine underground publication in the post-Stalin Soviet Union. The chapter concludes with an overview of research approaches and methods, both qualitative and quantitative, and of the challenges that future analysis will face.
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Pepe, Teresa. "Introduction: Egyptian Blogs between Fiction and Autobiography." In Blogging from Egypt, 1–27. Edinburgh University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474433990.003.0001.
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This chapter presents the main topic of the study and the theoretical and methodological framework used in the book. First, it argues that, so far, the debate concerning blogs has tended to consider them as forms of diary, i.e. non-fiction while few scholars have looked at blogs as a new literary genre. In the Arab world, blogs have mainly been studied as tools for political activism, while some attention has been given to blogs turned into books. Therefore, the theory of ‘autofiction’ is introduced as a possible interpretative framework to understand the literary features of some blogs. Focusing on Arabic literature, the chapter shows that that although the term ‘autofiction’ was coined in France in 1970s, the practice of fictionalizing the self has a long tradition in Arabic literature. Finally, since Internet literature is a relatively new field of research, the chapter briefly illustrates the methodology and challenges adopted in this study, and in particular: the selection of primary sources; the benefits of combining close reading with interviews, and the researcher’s ethical stances concerning Internet material and interviews in time of a popular revolution and military censorship.
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"Introduction: Egyptian Blogs Between Fiction and Autobiography." In Blogging from Egypt, 1–27. Edinburgh University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9781474434010-005.
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Scale, Mark-Shane, and Anabel Quan-Haase. "Categorizing Blogs as Information Sources for Libraries and Information Science." In Encyclopedia of Information Science and Technology, Third Edition, 4833–45. IGI Global, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-5888-2.ch475.
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Blogs are important sources of information currently used in the work of professionals, institutions and academics. Nevertheless, traditional information needs and uses research has not yet discussed where blogs fit in the existing typologies of information sources. Blogs and other types of social media have several characteristics that blur the lines of distinction existent between traditional information source categories. This chapter brings this research problem to the fore. Not only do we examine why blogs do not neatly fit into existing information source categories, but we also deliberate the implications for libraries in terms of the need to consider blogs as an information source to be included in collection development. We discuss the opportunities and possibilities for blogs to be integrated into the collection development efforts of academic and public libraries to better serve patrons. In order to accommodate for blogs and other types of social media as information sources, we propose the introduction of an additional information source category. We suggest new avenues of future research that investigate how blogs are being used to meet information needs in various social settings, such as corporations, health care and educational settings (e.g., higher education, and schools). In this chapter, we develop a framework of how blogs may function as information sources to provide libraries with a better understanding of how blogs are integrated into the context of everyday information seeking. By grouping the ways in which people employ blogs to acquire information, we propose that blogs provide information sources along a continuum ranging from non-fiction to fictional information.
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Finch, Emily, and Stefan Fafinski. "4. Media and web sources." In Criminology Skills, 59–82. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/he/9780198799818.003.0004.
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This chapter focuses on media and web sources of information about crime and criminology. It first considers the different media sources—newspapers, broadcast media, and fiction—and explains their relevance to the study of criminology. The chapter provides detailed information on identifying and locating relevant source materials in the media, and outlines the different types of online information such as official publications, reports from criminology organizations, and interest groups, as well as blogs and forums. It discusses how to assess the usefulness, relevance, and reliability of materials.
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Gürsimsek, Ödül A. "Gendered Representations of Fandom." In Overcoming Gender Inequalities through Technology Integration, 32–53. IGI Global, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-9773-7.ch002.
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Lost is a transgeneric, transmedia television drama that aired from 2004 to 2010, a period which coincided with the emergence of several participatory online Web 2.0 platforms including blogs, forums, YouTube, and Twitter. Thus, Lost audiences used various platforms to form communities and discuss the show. This chapter analyzes the discursive practices of audiences that compose the transgeneric audience discourse of Lost, and the tensions that arise when romance fans and science fiction/mystery fans are situated in conflicted positions regarding certain storylines. The analysis provides a critical discursive perspective that demonstrates that gender dynamics plays a role in interpreting the material related to fiction and the points of view of the other fan groups. The audience discourse that is shaped and negotiated by men and women who deliberate the so-called gendered interests in online mixed-gender platforms offer insights into how female audiences use online discussion platforms to empower themselves by constructing their identities as equal audience groups with legitimate interests.
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"Future Perfect? Communist Science Fiction in the Cold War." In Across the Blocs, 77–102. Routledge, 2004. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780203307403-8.
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REDON, Klemia. "Représentations stéréotypées et réaffirmation identitaire dans le rap cubain." In Ecritures de non fiction en Amérique latine, 97–110. Editions des archives contemporaines, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.17184/eac.5166.
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Même s’il émerge aux États-Unis à partir des années 1970, c’est à partir des années 1990, dans un contexte de crise économique, que le rap cubain prend de l’importance comme moyen de dénonciation, de rébellion et d’engagement. Originaire des ghettos noirs américains, ce genre musical est basé sur l’improvisation de textes souvent engagés, sur des dérivés de rythmes de reggae comme le dub ou de funk. Synonyme de liberté et moyen d’expression des opprimés, le rap cubain est un genre éminemment narratif qui raconte souvent des histoires vraies ou qui se présentent comme telles. L’étude de cette publication se basera sur trois articles du blog « Negra cubana tenía que ser ». Ces trois articles partant de l’analyse des paroles de chansons de rap, dénoncent les conditions des Afro-Cubain(e)s sur l’île. Nous nous focaliserons sur les différents points de vue et la manière dont sont traités les stéréotypes de genre et les stéréotypes raciaux aussi bien dans les paroles de chansons que dans l’écriture des articles.
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Miller, Giulia. "Waltz with Bashir and Meditations on War." In Studying Waltz with Bashir, 57–76. Liverpool University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.3828/liverpool/9781911325154.003.0004.
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This chapter considers Ari Folman's Waltz with Bashir within the broader context of non-animated and animated war films, such as Francis Ford Coppola's Apocalypse Now, Mori Masaki's Barefoot Gen, Jimmy Murakami's When the Wind Blows, and Isao Takahata's Grave of the Fireflies. It looks briefly at five other Israel films that deal with the subject of Lebanon: Eli Cohen's Ricochets, Haim Bouzaglo's Cherry Season, Eran Rikli's Cup Final, Joseph Cedar's Beaufort, and Samuel Maoz's Lebanon. It examines how the Israel films use more conventional modes of narrative fiction filmmaking rather than animation or documentary. The chapter looks at the intertexts that allow Waltz with Bashir to be both specific and general as it reflects upon the 1982 Sabra and Shatila massacres. It provides indirect views on other episodes of the twentieth century, such as events in Vietnam, Hiroshima, Korea, and the Holocaust.
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Horigan, Kate Parker. "From “Angel of Mercy” to “Fallen Folk Hero”: Zeitoun’s Story Travels." In Consuming Katrina, 35–54. University Press of Mississippi, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.14325/mississippi/9781496817884.003.0003.
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This chapter discusses Abdulrahman Zeitoun’s Katrina narrative, the subject of Zeitoun, Dave Eggers’ non-fiction bestseller. The story was first shared as a public blog by Mr. Zeitoun, then interview versions were published in Billy Sothern’s Down in New Orleans and in Voices from the Storm, edited by Lola Vollen and Chris Ying. Ultimately, Dave Eggers presents Zeitoun as a folk hero—an immigrant turned self-made businessman who steps up when disaster strikes—so when Zeitoun faces wrongful incarceration partly due to Islamophobia in Katrina’s wake, readers feel outraged. The public response to Zeitoun is complicated, though, by later criminal charges against him of domestic assault. Despite Abdulrahman’s early involvement in narrating his story, when it comes to Zeitoun, the survivor’s engagement with the narration is absent, and the result is a dangerously one-sided picture.
Conference papers on the topic "Blogs – Fiction"
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Kizhakkethil, Priya. "Information experience in a diaspora small world." In ISIC: the Information Behaviour Conference. University of Borås, Borås, Sweden, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.47989/irisic2022.
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Introduction. Leisure is considered important in the settlement and acculturation experiences of refugee and immigrant communities. Perceiving a gap in the literature which has taken a diaspora perspective, this on-going study looks at an online community converging around a leisure activity from a gender and diaspora standpoint, while looking to understand what would be experienced as information in that context. Method. Employing a qualitative research approach, data was obtained through semi-structured interviews with fourteen participants and also through the collecting of comments posted on fan fiction blogs. Analysis. Qualitative thematic analysis is being carried out using Nvivo software. Results. Early observations by way of themes lend credence to the importance of social context and point towards the role of meaning making in the information and document experience of the participants. Conclusions. Going beyond information seeking and problematic situations, adopting an experience approach can contribute towards conceptual and theoretical development in the field. The study also hopes to contribute towards literature that has looked at diaspora communities from a gender and leisure perspective.
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Kuzmina, Luiza, and Elena Remchukova. "RUSSIAN CLASSICAL LITERATURE TEXT AS A PRECEDENT PHENOMENON OF THE MODERN MEDIA SPACE." In NORDSCI International Conference. SAIMA Consult Ltd, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.32008/nordsci2020/b1/v3/18.
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The article is devoted to the functioning features of precedent texts in modern media discourse. Texts by F.M. Dostoevsky, namely, fiction, journalism and epistolary heritage, served as the research material. The relevance of the study is explained by the intertextual nature of the modern media space. The article shows that along with the use of Dostoevsky's precedent texts as signs of high culture, the modern media space also actively manifests the features of the postmodern cultural paradigm. The specifics of the latter include metatextuality, irony, various kinds of transformation, e.g., in headlines, which indicates their game foregrounding. Special attention is paid, firstly, to various types of intertextuality and ways of precedent phenomena foregrounding; secondly, to their use in various media areas (advertising, urban naming) and genres (interviews, internet blogs, etc.). The problem of recoding precedent phenomena is considered against the background of the use of signs of high culture as a form of reflection of modern mass consciousness in modern media communication, which is of research interest from an axiological point of view.
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Carrasco Gallegos, Brisa Violeta, and Glenda Yanes Ordiales. "Morfogénesis de una ciudad turística: los lenguajes arquitectónicos desde el imaginario internacional de lo mexicano." In International Conference Virtual City and Territory. Barcelona: Centre de Política de Sòl i Valoracions, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.5821/ctv.7605.
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Las ciudades turísticas intentan recrear los imaginarios internacionales sobre culturas determinadas, adaptándose a las expectativas que se tengan sobre el sitio a visitar. Los imaginarios son la realidad social construida desde los ciudadanos. A través de ellos las personas aprehendemos y explicamos las percepciones que nos formamos sobre los otros, los eventos y relaciones, así como sobre las obras y objetos.
En las ciudades del turismo emergentes, la construcción de los equipamientos turísticos, tanto públicos, como privados, hace tabula rasa de la ciudad preexistente, dejando de lado las experiencias culturales
locales, para preparar un escenario óptimo, que haga atractivo el sitio al público extranjero. En ese sentido los referentes culturales de lo mexicano, plasmados en la arquitectura, retoman elementos de
distintas regiones y momentos históricos, acordes al imaginario internacional. Esos lenguajes arquitectónicos funcionan como referencia de autenticidad del espacio consumido, validando la experiencia turística.
El objetivo de este trabajo es dar luz sobre el origen de las formas arquitectónicas –la morfogénesis- de una ciudad turística emergente. Es decir, observaremos los lenguajes urbanos y arquitectónicos, y la
relación que los diseños exhibidos guardan hacia el imaginario internacional de la cultura mexicana. Para ello, utilizaremos como instrumentos los recorridos que los turistas hacen para acceder a los desarrollos
turísticos, las imágenes expuestas en lugares específicos, así como el análisis del relato emitido por el turista en relación a la experiencia vivida. Nuestros medios de acceso serán las imágenes reales
(tomadas in situ por las autoras) y aquellas recogidas de los sitios web de las cadenas hoteleras y de las bitácoras personales (blogs) de turistas disponibles en Internet. Con estos instrumentos pretendemos
asociar los lenguajes plásticos del sitio con aquellos provenientes de imaginarios internacionales sobre la cultura mexicana, más allá de los de la realidad del sitio analizado. Retomamos a manera de ejemplo dos
puntos de vista: el del promotor inmobiliario y del turista. El caso de estudio es Puerto Peñasco, Sonora, ciudad que ha sufrido una fuerte conversión a las
actividades turísticas en los últimos diez años y cuyo auge inmobiliario, representa un caso emblemático del turismo en el noroeste mexicano.
Adelantándonos a manera de breve conclusión, podemos señalar que las imágenes montadas en el armado y diseño del puerto anterior cumplen la paradójica función asentarse en la memoria del viajero (crear una ciudad memorable y singular), a la vez que autentifican la experiencia turística, es decir, son imágenes congruentes con el imaginario que el turista se ha formado aún antes de iniciar su recorrido, ya sea a través de los relatos de otros viajeros o del discurso del promotor inmobiliario. Ambos disponibles con la facilidad de un clic.
Por otro lado, los referentes buscados por los promotores turísticos, están ligados, mediante la arquitectura y el urbanismo a la antigua arquitectura mexicana, de las culturas prehispánicas, las haciendas rurales y la arquitectura colonial, que poco o nada tienen que, ver con las actualidad de las ciudades mexicanas y mucho menos con el entorno regional de Puerto Peñasco. Sin embargo, ese tratamiento permite la creación de un ambiente "ideal" para el acercamiento a la cultura mexicana que los turistas esperan.
Al contrastar los puntos de vista de un viajero y de un promotor inmobiliario de esta localidad portuaria, daremos cuenta de la ciudad deseada y de la ciudad ficción, acercándonos de esta manera a la "ciudad
real", que bien pareciera la copia de las dos anteriores. The tourist cities intend to recreate the international imaginaries about certain cultures, adapting to the given expectations of the visiting place. The imaginaries are the social reality built by the citizens. Through them, people seize and explain their perceptions on others, on events and relationships, and as well as on
objects.
In the emerging cities of tourism, the building up of equipment, public as well as private, ignores the preexisting city. Cultural local experiences are left aside to prepare an optimal scenario that would make
the place attractive for the foreign visitors. In this sense, the cultural references for “the Mexican” are
captured trough architecture. They take elements from different regions and different historical momentums, according to the international imaginary. These architectural languages works as an
authenticity reference for space, validating the tourist experience.
The objective of this paper is to throw light on the origin of architectural forms –the morphogenesis- in an emerging tourist city. We will look at the urban and architectural languages, as well as the connexion that the exhibit designs keep towards the Mexican culture international imaginary. In order to do so, we will take advantage of the itineraries the tourists follow to get to the tourist developments, of the images exposed in specific places, and of the tourists account of their experiences. Our means of access will be
the real images (taken by the author of this paper) and those collected in web sites of hotel chains and personal tourist journals (blogs). With these instruments we intend to associate the place plastic languages with those derived from international imaginaries on the Mexican culture. As an example we
take into account to points of view: the real estate promoter’s and the tourist’s.
The case of study is Puerto Peñasco, Sonora, a city that has suffered a tough switch to the tourist activities within the last ten years, and of which its real-estate growth represents an emblematic case in the
Mexican northwest.
Bringing forward a brief conclusion, it can be pointed out that the array of images and the port design achieve the paradoxical function settle themselves on the traveller’s memory (creating a memorable and
singular city), and at the same time they authenticate the tourist experience. In other words, these images are consistent with the imaginary that the tourists have formed even before they began their tour. This recreation of the images is accessible through the stories of other travellers or trough the speech of realestate promoters (realties), both of which available with a single “clic”.On other side, the references seek by the tourist realties are attached to the antique Mexican architecture: the pre-Hispanic cultures, the haciendas and the colonial period, that have very few or nothing to do with the regional environment of Puerto Peñasco. However, that array allows the creation of an "ideal"
environment, expected by the tourist to approach to the Mexican culture.
Finally, contrasting the point of view of a traveller and a real-estate promoter, we will expose the desired city and the fictional city. In this way, we will approach to the "real city", which now seems the copy of the other two.