The boundary between reality and fiction in hyperfictions for smartphoneConverted Bouchardon's HT '23 short paper on smartfictions and the reality/fiction boundary to Markdown with all 6 sections, 5 figures (6 images), 14 footnotes, references, and the smartfiction app list, plus a metadata-and-abstract stub since the paper has no CC license.

The boundary between reality and fiction in hyperfictions for smartphone

Serge Bouchardon — Costech Lab, Université de technologie de Compiègne, Compiègne, France — serge.bouchardon@utc.fr

Published in HT '23: 34th ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media · DOI: 10.1145/3603163.3609081 · License: © Copyright held by the owner/author(s).

Keywords: Hyperfiction, digital, fiction, notification, reality, smartfiction

Session: Authoring, Reading, Publishing: Web reading

Pages: spit

Conference: HT '23

Abstract

Hyperfictions for telephones, described as smartfictions, are based on our ordinary practices with a smartphone, in particular instant messaging and notifications. Using the example of Bury Me, My Love, we analyse the play on the boundary between reality and fiction, but also what these narratives reveal about our own use of the smartphone and the ethical issues they raise.

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