WITTFC Tutorial 1

Our relationship to culture during COVID

Concerts are less available.

A lot of media we consume is based on our friends and family who we are seeing less.

Literature vs literature

High brow literature like classics.

Fantasy and genre fiction, digital media is little l literature

To kill a mockingbird

Bronte sisters

George orwell

Tik tok book reviews or youtube reviews

YA fiction

Sci-fi

Fantasy

Literature for the masses. What the audience is wanting.

For fun!

Making you work for it

Structure and under the surface.

Why is little l literature important?

Smaller group of people for L

More modern dealing with current topics

Representing wider groups of people

May be easier to understand concepts from big L literature

Do you think reading is on the decline.

No.

Reading material is consumed in different formats.

Change in climate in the world they want to read something smaller and light-hearted rather than news.

More things are videos

You still read more but in different formats.

Elitism, what we should be consuming.

Material books vs electronic

Less distraction

Collections

You can see how much you've read as an acomplishment.

The smell

Nice to look at

Extra baggage, where are you going to store them?

What makes you buy books?

Tik tok recommendations

Ebook advertising on facebook

Influencers

Blurbs

Spines/covers

Friend recommendations

Book reviews

What might our cultural background, childhood, class and gender, have on what to read?

Reading in childhood can promote reading as they grow up.

Books that are required to read in school can affect the way you read and your interest in reading.

Disability can make people either enjoy reading more or less.

Classics as Elitism?

When the first language isn't English they may enjoy it less.

Female characters compared to more masculine dominated novels.

Social status can change reading habits.

A lot of books don't have ethnic backgrounds that reflect reality.

Rubric

Ideas you engaged with

Like a journal

Refer to the rubric

Submit on FLO at the end of the semester.