Short Form Content & Literature in Digital Cultures are Here to Stay
Short Form Content & Literature Rooted in similar short forms, from 1800's fables to Hemingway's 1920's 6 word story (Fuchs, 2023), digital composition has enabled multimodality experimentation, as digital circulation and delivery turn amateurs into best-selling authors in genres of short fiction, poetry, and video storytelling (on Twitter, Instagram, TikTok, and other platforms) that continues to grow in the 21st century with no slowing in sight. Styles: Cellphone novels & visual novels/games Twitterature Instapoetry Tiktok short-form videos ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Cellphone novels (aka Keitai shosetsu) & Visual novel aka digital fictions = textual narrative and images and some interactivity. Cellphone novels began in 2003 with "Deep Love", that was delivered via text messaging, and went on to be a tv series, manga, then movie, and has expanded even into 2018. "The...