Call for papers for Special Issue of Journal

Our wonderful Spanish colleagues Daniel Cassany and Cristina Aliagas are calling for papers for a special issue -- to be published in English and Spanish (translation provided) -- of the journal OCNOS on the theme of Digital literacy practices: Online read, write and chat about literature. OCNOS is indexed in Quartile 1 in Scopus and is indexed to the Web of Science.

The full call for papers can be found here

Meanwhile we have excerpted the following information from the call for papers for your convenience:

This special issue aims to explore ... new forms of creation, learning, consumption and literary socialization, with an inclusive look, addressing some of the more current examples:

• Booktubers: Creation of promotion and book review channels, formation of reader networks, booktuber contests, etc.

• Fanfiction and popular literature: Reading, commenting and creating fanfic and other narratives on specialized digital platforms: fanfiction.net, Wattpad, etc.

• Groups of musical fans: Participation in fans group of a singer or musical group, with group management activity, content creation (for example, in the form of fanvids or vids, in which songs, music and images overlap, or translation practices, divulgation etc.

• Storytelling: Creation of narrative or poetic audiovisual works (stories, comic, photonovels, video poetry, drawn poetry, etc.), audiobooks, etc.

• Memes, phrases, postcards: Creation and propagation of short literary or paraliterary texts, with authentic or apocryphal phrases, thoughts or quotes, that young people create, take and reuse and share online through several channels (mobile, web, etc.) .

• Literary apps: Applications with digital stories that are read on touch screens and that develop multimodal narratives in which reader participation is key for the development of the story.

• Others