week 6

The Genre of Storytelling

When using social media sites such as Instagram and Facebook we are telling our story.  Intentionally or not, the pictures and comments posted posted provide threads of information for others to follow.  Within the online forum of Instagram, short concise posts and photos are shared in a time line style.  The style and layout of this onine forum helps the follower to create the story.  Although it may not be the whole or true story, a story nonetheless is created when using this site.  These fragmented posts are being displayed in a way in which we can  create a story from the information being shared.  Likening it to Japanese essayist Kenko, who within the genre of essay writing used a style of fragmented essays.  These "essays echo the quick brush stroke of a zen painting' (Di Yanni, p.87), and yet told a whole story.

Di Yanni also spoke about the complex nature of the essay and the different forms it could take (p.5).  Although all classified under the same genre heading of essay, there are a diversity of topics and structures that could be personalised.  Genres are grouped based on similarities and shared conventions as Van Luyn (2013) discussed in our week 6 lecture.  Within the forum of Instagram their are many similarities between users, but because of the flexibility of the medium of photography we can personalise our photos and comments, and tell our story.

References:

Di Yanni, R. (2005). Introduction: Reading and writing essays in twenty-five great essays.  New York: Penguin Academics.

Di Yanni, R. (2005). Introduction: Reading and writing essays in twenty-five great essays.  New York: Penguin Academics

Van Luyn, A (2013). BA1002: Our Space: Network , narratives and the making of place, Lecture 6: Retrieved from: https://learnjcu.jcu.edu.au/webapps/porta

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