Resumen de Social Media Storytelling as a Method for Teaching Literature

Susana Tosca, Anne Katrine Nørgaard Isholdt, Niklas Tarp Petzke

• This paper investigates how a social medium (Facebook in this case) can be a platform for a novel way of teaching literature focusing on social roleplaying of the literary characters. We call this new form “social media storytelling”. Our project transmedially recreates the world of an original work of literature, a Danish medieval ballad. We describe our experiment, contextualise our findings and argue for the potentials of such a dialogic form