Wattpad and the Holy Grail How Social Media technologies have transformed the role of the reader Written by Tegan Gillard for the Social Media, Networks and Communities Conference Introduction In her book, The Digital Literary Sphere, Simone Murray describes the “the holy grail of literary culture” as the intimate one-on-one connection between author and reader (2018, p.?). This connection has been lost since our storytelling evolved from community-based oral traditions to mass Read more […]