Posting, diffusion and legitimization of microfiction on Facebook: Rogelio Ramos Signes’s and Ildiko Nassr’s profiles

Abstract

Social networks have changed the ways of linking and communicating, and over time, they became efficient channels for literature’s circulation. Thus, chronicles, novel’s fragments, short stories and microfictions began to be published from personal profiles and/or fanpages and soon had found curious and/or specialized readers. These alternative forms of circulation for literary texts has also promoted the formation of writers' networks and facilitated closeness and interaction with readers.

Dissemination of literary texts in the networks have intensified the relationship between text and image. Both languages interpellate the reader-followers and form a meaning structure. Sometimes word and image appear at the same time and cannot be perceived separately; at other times, the image complements or adds visual information to the words or the words are result of the impact and the gaze transmitted by the image (Kibedi Varga 2000).

In this paper, besides problematizing the publication and diffusion of microfiction in the social network Facebook, the processes of legitimization and its literary valuation, we are interested in the

analysis of the minifictions published by Rogelio Ramos Signes from Tucuman and Ildiko Nassr from Jujuy, authors who also put in dialogue word and image in their publications.