contentnovel
Contentnovel is a neologism used in contemporary literary criticism and media studies to describe a form of fiction in which the process of content creation—whether crowd-sourced, user-contributed, or generated by algorithms—is integrated into the fabric of the narrative or its production pipeline. In a contentnovel, the text may incorporate fragments supplied by readers, modular blocks of story material, or procedurally generated passages that are then curated or shaped by an editor or algorithmic system. The term emphasizes the interplay between content creation workflows and traditional narrative form, rather than a fixed, author-centered manuscript alone.
Origin and usage: The term contentnovel has appeared in discussions about digital literature, platform-enabled storytelling, and
Forms and examples: Contentnovels can take many shapes, including collaborative novels assembled from user-submitted scenes, fiction
Reception and issues: Critics discuss issues of authorship, originality, and copyright, since contributions may come from
See also: hypertext fiction, electronic literature, modular storytelling, procedural generation, crowd-sourced writing.