Wattpad Anlatılarında Bir Sosyal Tip: ‘Bad boy’
A Social Type In Wattpad Narratives: ‘Bad boy’

Summary/Abstract: Developments in communication and information technologies in the 21st century have pioneered the digital age. Communication and interaction have been differentiated by technology. Digitalization adds innovations to daily life and literature. New media has also created environments that enable direct writing and reading by digitizing book texts. The most popular of these is Wattpad. Digital narrative platform hosting narratives written in different languages, categories and formats where mostly young amateur writers exist are mostly followed by young people. Those with high readership rates have been placed on shelves in printed form. The first editions of these printed narratives draw attention both to their thematic and figurative similarities. The term ‘Bad boy’, emerging in America in the 1870s, describes the man not knowing any rules, is rebellious, social, but lonely and polygamist. Building this, the study aims to reveal the particularities defining the ‘Bad boy’ figures in popular first edition Wattpad narratives.

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