Fan Fiction Annotated Bibliography Baron, N. Always

Fan Fiction Annotated Bibliography Baron, N. Always On: Language in an Online and Mobile World. New York: Oxford University Press, 2008. Print. In our viritual community, people still need to have a way of communicating their words and messages. This is done through a keyboard -- texting, email, or online chat. Texting, or text messaging, is a modern colloquial term that refers to the exchange of information between mobile devices, made possible by transmitting messages through cellular networks.

Typically, these types of messages are sent using a Short Message Service (SMS), but with the advances in cellular technology and memory, a new Multimedia Message Service (MMS) made it possible to send messages containing images, video, and sound. Email of course is simply messaging sent through an Internet account, and IM the virtual equivalent of texting. more private even than voice (Crystal 2009).

Texting is a global phenomenon, and in some countries (Hong Kong for instance) has replaced voice minutes -- users are literally glued to their text machines, often forming large, complex social networks simply through text. As an industry product, texting is the most widely used of all mobile data services, with at up to 40% of all mobile phone users in the United States send or receive at least one text per day. In the United States, for instance, the market share for text availability is 98% of purchased cell phones.

Burns, E. And C. Webber. "When Harry met Bella: Fanfiction is all the Rage, but is it Plagiarism or the perfect thing to encourage young writers?" School School Library Journal 55.8 (2009): 26-9. Print. Fan fiction is its own world in which fans create stories using characters, setting and events from their favorite books, comics, movies, television or other media. Anything is possible, combining characters like Harry Potter and Luke Skywalker, and more. Sometimes it is dismissed as being poorly written and simply plagiarizing other authors' ideas.

However, this article takes a different approach and says that teachers should encourage not only the reading of fan fiction, but also writing and exploring literary techniques using favorite characters. Of course, one must also teach how to vet sources, how not to plagiarize, but more important, accounting to Burns and Webber, is simply getting students to write and explore language. Gaiman, N. How to Talk to Girls at Parties. Seattle: Amazon Digital, 2013. Web. December 2013.

This is a small book, primarily available electronically, that is both a guide to a modern social issue of talking to strangers and a way to understand the dynamics of human interaction. At first blush, it may seem as if it is frivolous, however, while it has humor built in, it is really more about the personal relationships we must carry on within the digital world.

This is written in short-story format, but looks at the ways that the social networking and technological worlds have collided to make it far easier to "chat online" with people than to actually interact with them in person. Haller, C. "Walk, Talk, Cook, Eat: A Guide to Using Sources." June 2011. Colorado State University. Web. November 2013.

In Walk, Talk, Cook, Eat: A Guide to Using Sources, author Cynthia Haller focuses on a methodology of helping learners understand that there are different ways of evaluating source material in order to use that material for divergent types of writing. For instance, simply because something is posted on the Internet does not make it correct, simply putting in a generalized search term does not always result in meaningful content.

For the modern learner, with literally millions of possibilities for sources, the key is to think of finding source information that produces new meaning- taking from the given material, but moving far beyond the rote and into synthesis, analysis and eventually, a new and creative product.

Overall, Haller divides her recommendations into four models for more effective source utilization: 1) Walk -- knowing where sources exist and finding them; 2) Talk -- who are the sources, what is their expertise, their bias, and from what point-of-view do they supply the data? 3) Cook -- How do we process these sources? What ingredients do we use to make a better product (the research paper), and how are the sources combined appropriately? And, 4) Eat -- Taking the sources,.