So for this infographic there was a lot to consider. Sophia Le Fraga uses many internet sources to contruct her book I RL YOU RL so there was a lot to figure out. Once I got some sort of an idea as to where she got her content from, which was basically just the social media sites that she goes on when she is killing time, I then continued to see if she had a process. Her big thing is that she believes that "people love to hear themselves talk," she said so herself in an interview with HTML Giant, so she just takes what is posted and pulls it all together. A big thing that she focuses on is enjambment. Now I get a little bit too excited by clever enjambment due to the creative writing class that I took my senior year, but I very much appreciate Le Fraga's use of it. She parses the lines at places where the next line could go in really any direction. She plays with the meaning and tone by doing this. Like I said briefly in the comment on Natalie's post, there are multiple ways to read this book: conceptual, alt lit, and flarf. The conceptual method focuses on the recontextualization and how by taking it off of the internet and putting it onto concrete pages she is taking the ever changing internet and making it more permanent as well as just taking all that is said around it away. Alt lit focuses much more on the fact that her sources are social media sites and how that can change the way that it is interpreted. I think that the flarf method is a little bit far fetched, however there are certain times that you do wonder what the point of what she is writing is. All in all, I found this book to be more of an autobiography more than anything else. The internet these days, and especially social media sites, have become records of our lives. By taking her internet world, Le Fraga is putting down on paper who she is at that point in time and tells us a lot about herself in doing so.
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