Literary Genres in the Digital Age: Evolution, Adaptation, and Innovation | Chapter 14 | Digital Crossroads: Integrating Humanities, Science and Technology Edition 1

The rise of digital technology has transformed how literary genres evolve, reshaping storytelling methods and formats. Platforms like Kindle, Audible, and Twine have revolutionized storytelling by enhancing accessibility, interactivity, and adaptability. This paper explores how these innovations redefine genre conventions, enrich reader engagement through personalized, immersive experiences, and empower writers with creative tools and formats. It also examines challenges such as accessibility gaps, content quality concerns, and debates over digital works’ literary legitimacy. Looking ahead, emerging technologies like AI and VR promise to further revolutionize storytelling with hyper-personalized narratives and immersive environments.

 Additionally, it explores what these changes mean for authors, readers, and the literary canon.

 

Author (s) Details

 

Jayabala Girish
School of Skill Education, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai, India.

 

Priya Singh
Faculty of Humanities & Social Sciences, Principal I/C, MIT School of Education & Research, MIT Art, Design & Technology University, Pune, India.

 

Please see the book here:- https://doi.org/10.9734/bpi/mono/978-93-48859-10-5/CH14

Review of the Trikirion of Communication: Symboleracy, Numeracy and Techneracy | Chapter 4 | Progress in Language, Literature and Education Research Vol. 7

 The starting point is the phylogeny of communication because the educational topic I am going to address cannot even exist if there is no communication. We have to understand that all Hominins were communicating. Probably all Hominins after Homo Erectus included had some command of some articulated language, but only Homo Sapiens reached the comprehensive and sustainable command of the fully-articulated language, probably around 200,000 BCE. The next great stage is the development of representational and symbolic inscriptions and paintings or engravings on all durable media available, rockface in caves, stone, bone, ivory, and tusks. This symbolic transcription of stories and experience, maybe some spiritual language accompanying some rituals, is the first form of writing seen as symbolic transcription and going back to 300,000 BCE with Homo Naledi, 100,000 BCE with Homo Neanderthalensis, and 50,000 with Homo Sapiens. Syllabic and alphabetical writing only came around 3,500 BCE for Homo Sapiens. There might have been older cases, but archaeology has not yet covered the whole world for all types of symbolic inscriptions that could have led to symbolic phonetic writing. The next stage was the printing press which enabled mass education and mass communication. The next stage is the digital age as the most advanced form of the mechanical development of oral and written communication, the latest development being Generative Artificial Intelligence. In this modern age, education has to shift completely from teacher-centered education to guided self-learning which is based on 1- The self-learner’s desires; 2- The self-learner’s choices; 3- Teamwork; 4- The freedom of expression, tolerance, and discussion, and the freedom of emotional intelligence; 5- Motivation; 6- No disruptive self-learners, only disruptive treatment of self-learners; 7- All tools available to all self-learners with NO restrictions; 8- Flexibility: top self-learners, average midway self-learners, students with special needs and differently-abled students, Vygotsky’s Zone of Proximal Development, Guide-Coach-Teacher’s flexible self-learning; 9- Systematic recap and discussion of achieved self-learning at the end of each phase; 10- Multi-ism and Pluri-ism. This article presents a globalizing vision of about 65 years of experience in education in many countries and many circumstances. The main methodological procedure is to capture the phylogeny of what I am studying, meaning the inner logic and processing that makes all these phenomena sustainable: at every step in the development, the phenomena themselves produce the means and energy that enable the next step to emerge. Language is a self-developing communicational tool, and communication itself is a self-developing behavioral competence.

Author(s) Details:

Jacques Coulardeau,
Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, Paris, France.

Please see the link here: https://stm.bookpi.org/PLLER-V7/article/view/13937