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123 - books at work make me laugh
I work at my college's library, processing new books that come in and distributing them based on language. I get the usual: odd-shaped artsy-fartsy books with gratuitous nudity, over-my-head atomic physics and mathematics books, and ones that make me sit there for 15 mins trying to figure out just what language it's written in.
Occasionally, tho, I come across some entertaining books. For example:
On Amazon: http://www.amazon.co.uk/New-Literacies-Everyday-Practices-Classroom/dp/033522010X
On McGraw-Hill / Open University Press: http://www.mcgraw-hill.co.uk/html/033522010X.html
Why is this book so entertaining? Well, for starters, on the cover, it features a chibi playing a video game, an amateur-drawn anime girl in a sailor fuku, a rack of manga in the original Japanese, and the definition of a 'meme'. That's what caught my attention, but it gets better...
Here's an excerpt from the back cover's summary:
The first edition of this popular book explored new literacies, new kinds of knowledge and classroom practices in the context of the massive growth of electronic information and communication technologies. This timely new edition discusses a fresh range of practices like blogging, fanfiction, mobile/wireless communications, and fan practices that remix audio and visual texts. Revised and updated throughout, the book examines:
* Popular practices and social networks associated with contemporary phenomena, Flickr and Wikipedia
* Blogging, podcasting and mobile/wireless communication practices
* Writing practices within online fanfiction and manga-anime communities
* The production of Anime-Music-Video artifacts and online multimodal `memes'
LOL! This book discusses things like getting a beta, kinds of fanfiction (AUs, slash, canon, etc.), as well as stuff like the Mary Sue Syndrome! I seriously about fell out of my chair when I read that. I mean, I took a *class* about the art / psychology / philosophy behind anime & manga, so I *know* there's literature out there about it... but FANFICTION??? "Or 'fanfic' to its aficionados" -- that's a direct quote! XDDDD Okay, back to work...
Occasionally, tho, I come across some entertaining books. For example:
On Amazon: http://www.amazon.co.uk/New-Literacies-Everyday-Practices-Classroom/dp/033522010X
On McGraw-Hill / Open University Press: http://www.mcgraw-hill.co.uk/html/033522010X.html
Why is this book so entertaining? Well, for starters, on the cover, it features a chibi playing a video game, an amateur-drawn anime girl in a sailor fuku, a rack of manga in the original Japanese, and the definition of a 'meme'. That's what caught my attention, but it gets better...
Here's an excerpt from the back cover's summary:
The first edition of this popular book explored new literacies, new kinds of knowledge and classroom practices in the context of the massive growth of electronic information and communication technologies. This timely new edition discusses a fresh range of practices like blogging, fanfiction, mobile/wireless communications, and fan practices that remix audio and visual texts. Revised and updated throughout, the book examines:
* Popular practices and social networks associated with contemporary phenomena, Flickr and Wikipedia
* Blogging, podcasting and mobile/wireless communication practices
* Writing practices within online fanfiction and manga-anime communities
* The production of Anime-Music-Video artifacts and online multimodal `memes'
LOL! This book discusses things like getting a beta, kinds of fanfiction (AUs, slash, canon, etc.), as well as stuff like the Mary Sue Syndrome! I seriously about fell out of my chair when I read that. I mean, I took a *class* about the art / psychology / philosophy behind anime & manga, so I *know* there's literature out there about it... but FANFICTION??? "Or 'fanfic' to its aficionados" -- that's a direct quote! XDDDD Okay, back to work...