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The Gen Book And Transtextuality, Hilary Yerbury
The Gen Book And Transtextuality, Hilary Yerbury
Proceedings from the Document Academy
This piece suggests that although individuals can make decisions not to speak of difficult times in their lives, documents with the multiple relationships created through transtextuality can act as silent witnesses to these unspoken times.
Transformations: From Social Media Campaign To Scholarly Paper, Hilary Yerbury, Ahmed Shahid
Transformations: From Social Media Campaign To Scholarly Paper, Hilary Yerbury, Ahmed Shahid
Proceedings from the Document Academy
This paper takes up the challenge given at the 2015 meeting of the Document Academy to explore relationships between the conference paper being presented and the social media campaign on which it was based. Using Genette’s notion of transtextuality, through which he shows that all published texts are networked to other texts, and Frohmann’s argument that our understanding of a document and the justification of that understanding are to be found in the “the stories we tell”, the report of the exploration describes the way that the relationships between the two emerge from the links created between the content of …
The Becoming Of Human Rights Documents: An Exploration Of A Social Media Campaign, Hilary Yerbury, Ahmed Shahid
The Becoming Of Human Rights Documents: An Exploration Of A Social Media Campaign, Hilary Yerbury, Ahmed Shahid
Proceedings from the Document Academy
This study explores the social media campaign related to the disappearance of a journalist in the Maldives in August 2014. At a simple level, this study asks whether the Facebook and Twitter hashtag postings meet the standards of a human rights document. At a more complex level, using Genette’s concept of transtextuality, it explores the relationships between the social media campaign and its relationships to statements made by human rights NGOs, by UN agencies and in foreign parliaments. Although the social media campaign does not meets the standards of a human rights document, contributions from other agencies would unquestionably be …