http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/02/weekinreview/02wright.html?_r=1
Note that a professor at Parsons school of design is creating a course that studies the emergence of oral culture online.
This article gives a bit of explanation to my theory that perhaps Qatar leap-frogged the book and went straight into digital mode--digital social networking in some ways replicates an oral tribe situation. Fascinating!
Three names were mentioned that are worth looking up on the bibliographic trail: Lance Strate, Michael Wesch, and Irwin Chen.
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Thanks Jesse, that is a good article. Based on this, my personal conclusion would be that a graphic novel or comic operates more like twitter or facebook... it has been constructed to have short bits of information and text and mimic spoken words. Whereas a fairy tale seems to be written more like a piece of 'literature'.
It is interesting because with this project we are actually taking something that is an oral 'fairy tale' like story and attempting to put it into prose, then extracting that information into a 'graphic novel' that in the end will act more like an oral story.
Perhaps the intrique of this book project could be in what is left out of the story. For example, all the stories seems to have slightly different versions, so if we attempt to tell the story 'exactly' it could cause a reader to lose interest... the catch will be to tell enough of a story visually and in text to cause the reader to fill in the blanks. This could be and interesting point because it could actually prompt people to debate and/or discuss their version of the story... making our written/visual story verbal again.
There is something that seems interesting about that... but I can not really formulate it in an academic way... more so speaking off the top of my head.
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