Fictional adaptations, intermediialities and Media Ecology: possibilities, tactics and themes that border youth digital culture

Abstract

The article displays results from doctoral research, defended in 2022, whose purpose was to investigate which multi-referential elements made up the fictional adaptations created by young people on the Wattpad platform and whether they have characteristics close to multimodality/multiliteracy practices in writing the textual body, experiences of transmediation of content and connectivism as a learning process. We opted for Qualitative Research, taking Netnographic (Dawson, 2019; Hine, 2016; 2000) as an approach for immersion in the empirical field and Media Ecology as an epistemological current, therefore, a method of understanding the investigated object. As a result, it was possible to verify how communication spaces, such as online literature repositories, are being used as communication media and configuring themselves in network collaboration environments in the field of cyberculture in the production, access to reading and dissemination of literary genres consumed by young people online.