The Internet and Its Effect on Literature

1. The Internet and Its Effect on Literature By Gage Wheeler

2. Introduction • In this presentation we will discover how the Internet has affected us as a culture and how that in turn affected literature.

3. Introduction • Remember that some questions will cover ideas not explicitly mentioned in the lesson, so think critically about the covered material and have fun.

4. Home 1. The Internet 2. Web Based Literature 3. MS Paint Adventures Quiz References For Teachers

5. Teacher’s Section • Overview: This Powerpoint will discuss how the internet has affected and formed various forms of literature based on it’s affect on us as a society.

6. Teacher’s Section • Objective: Students, given an interactive PowerPoint presentation, will be able to view a form of literature or storytelling and accurately be able to identify how the internet affected the methodology or purpose of it. • Objective: Students, given an interactive PowerPoint Presentation, will understand and identify ways that the internet has affected us as a culture in the way we create and perceive art/literature.

7. The Internet

8. The Internet • The Internet was primarily designed as a means to share data between isolated computing machines almost instantaneously.

9. The Internet • Currently, the Internet has since become the primary source of entertainment, communication, and information for a massive amount of people.

10. How the Internet has Changed Us

11. How the Internet has Changed Us • One thing the internet has done is perpetuate a need for instant gratification, the need to have the benefits of something without having to wait.

12. How the Internet has Changed Us • Another way the internet has affected us is changing how people view social interaction.

13. How the Internet has Changed Us • With the advent of IM, Social Media Websites, and other forms of instantaneous communication, many peoples’ minds have adapted switching focus more often, leading to shorter attention spans in general.

14. How the Internet has Changed Us • With their newfound abilities in being distracted, youth turn less and less towards time consuming epic novels and more towards brief blurbs and videos.

15. How the Internet has Changed Us • There are many who try to retain the mecca of epic literature, yet still the slant is pandering towards shorter, more in-your-face forms of media to grasp one’s attention before it shifts to the myriad of other possibilities.

16. How the Internet has Changed Us • -OPTIONAL- • Click the link below to view a video describing how the advertising agencies have reacted to shrinking attention spans and the internet. Advertising Strategies

17. Advertising Strategies

18. Do you Remember? • The Internet has become many peoples’ primary source of _____________, ____________, and _______________. • IM, Social Media Websites, and other forms of instantaneous communication have shortened peoples’ ___________ _______.

19. Do you Remember? • The Internet has become many peoples’ primary source of entertainment, communication, and information. • IM, Social Media Websites, and other forms of instantaneous communication have shortened peoples’ Attention Spans. *If you had any issues with this review, I would recommend viewing this section another time so that you will be prepared for the test at the end.

20. Web Based Literature

21. Web Based Literature • Web based literature comes in many shapes and sizes. It ranges from web comics, personal blogs, online journalism, and full-on books.

22. Web Based Literature • Ever since the Internet has come out, more an more people rely on the internet for their news as opposed to newspapers.

23. Web Based Literature • In accordance with this most publications are diverting their resources to grow more in the web department.

24. Web Based Literature • In a lot of cases, due to the immediate nature of the internet, articles can be put out almost immediately after the news happens and tend to much shorter than their newspaper variants.

25. Web Based Literature • This allows for an almost constant stream of information available to the public with very little down time.

26. Web Based Literature • Another development due to the internet is a resurgence in unpublished writing in forms of blogs and books posted on the internet.

27. Web Based Literature • The main difference between blogs and unpublished works from the past is how easy it is to get your work out there in the public eye for people to see.

28. Web Based Literature • The internet has also saw rise to something called Fan-Fiction, short stories or full on books written by fans of a particular canon.

29. Web Based Literature • While many works of fan-fiction are obvious in their unprofessional nature, some are fully fleshed out stories with depth and meaning made available for free on the internet.

30. Web Based Literature • For many people, the ease of putting writing out on the internet has inspired them to write, even if they never felt like they could before, tapping a great source of creative energy.

31. Do you Remember? • With the advent of the internet many forms of writing have changed or developed. Many online journalism sources have adapted to writing ________ articles to compete. The ease of putting your work online has caused many to write _______ or ________ and has tapped into people’s innate ________.

32. Do you Remember? • With the advent of the internet many forms of writing have changed or developed. Many online journalism sources have adapted to writing Shorter articles to compete. The ease of putting your work online has caused many to write blogs or stories and has tapped into people’s innate creativity.

33. MS Paint Adventures

34. MS Paint Adventures • Homestuck is a webcomic on MS Paint Adventures written by Andrew Hussie, and thousands of other people.

35. MS Paint Adventures • Since its creation on April 13th, 2009, Homestuck has become so popular it was able to raise 2.5 million dollars over the course of a month just to make a game about it.

36. MS Paint Adventures • The reason it’s popular? It applies to it’s audience. • Homestuck is a piece of literature written on the internet, by the internet, and for the internet.

37. MS Paint Adventures • In the early stages of Homestuck, every page written was in direct result of a reader “commands,” much like an old school text parser game.

38. MS Paint Adventures • So immediately the readers feel a connection with the story as they themselves were directing it’s path, invoking a sense of empowerment.

39. MS Paint Adventures • The method for dialog between character was done entirely through chat logs over the internet, with the characters having never met in real life.

40. MS Paint Adventures • Much of the youth today could easily connect with these concepts as many have as many friends solely through the internet as they do in real life

41. MS Paint Adventures • Andrew Hussie brought together so many facets of the internet under one work of literature that's over 1,000,000 words long, in a way that connects personally to most if not all of the audience in some way.

42. MS Paint Adventures • He ended up writing about up diverse group of people from all walks of life, collaborating and identifying who they are though interacting with other on the internet.

43. MS Paint Adventures • This, in turn brought together whole groups of people, together in their love for this series. The series about what it itself has brought people about to do.

44. MS Paint Adventures • Homestuck, as a work of literature, effectively encompasses the zeitgeist of an entire generation of people raised on the internet.

45. MS Paint Adventures • The following slide contains a video published by PBS describing Homestuck as the Ulysses of the internet.

46. MS Paint Adventures -PBS on Homestuck compared to Ulysses

47. MS Paint Adventures • The link on the right leads to an interview of Andrew Hussie done by Brian Lee O’Malley, the maker of Scott Pilgrim. It’s a very interesting read and comes highly recommended. Homestuck Interview

48. Do You Remember? • Homestuck is a webcomic that gave readers a sense of ____________ by allowing for their input into the story. However, the story was not only shaped by people on the internet, but was about them, outlining a generation that __________ who they are through the internet. Homestuck could be described as the ____________ of our generation.

49. Do You Remember? • Homestuck is a webcomic that gave readers a sense of empowermentby allowing for their input into the story. However, the story was not only shaped by people on the internet, but was about them, outlining a generation that identifieswho they are through the internet. Homestuck could be described as the (Zeitgeist or Ulysses) of our generation. *If you had any issues with this review, I would recommend viewing this section another time so that you will be prepared for the test at the end.

50. Quiz • Time for a Quiz. • If you were able to complete all of the Do You Remember portions, you should have an adequate basis of information to answer these questions. • Remember that some will be based on your ability to reason and build off the knowledge that you have, and will cover information not explicitly mentioned in the lesson.