The Impact of Social Media on the Production and Consumption of Flash FictionPoljak, Andrejka (Avtor) Krevel, Mojca (Mentor) flash fictionsocial mediaformthemeauthor-reader relationshipThe development of an abundance of social networks has gradually led to their immense popularity, and the number of social platform users is growing every year. Social networks have fundamentally changed the process of interpersonal communication, as they have changed the way people, i.e. social platforms’ users, establish and maintain social interactions and relationships. Social networks do not only affect the social sphere but have changed many other areas of everyday life, including the production and consumption of literary works, specifically flash fiction. Social networks have thus primarily made the access to the consumption of flash fiction works easier, for they are now available to social platform users without further restrictions. They have also facilitated and shortened the production process of very short literary works, as users can publish their (and other people’s) original works without the help of others, i.e. a publisher or a publishing house. In addition, social networks have likewise influenced the form and the prevailing themes of flash fiction and transformed the author-reader relationship, since the latter is now more of a friendly one.20212021-12-08 07:40:44Magistrsko delo/naloga133659sl