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Twitter Fiction

October 10, 2009 |  Tagged , , , | 6 Comments




This morning I finally gave my presentation Twitter Fiction: Social Networking and Microfiction in 140 characters at the III National Conference of Microfiction in Spanish and in English at UCEL in Rosario, Argentina.

I’m posting the abstract and the Power Point presentation together with the links to some Twitter Fiction writers in both languages.

Twitter Fiction

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Abstract

Since the turn of the 21st century the web has evolved from a vast source of information into an ever growing multimedia platform –Web 2.0 – that allows users to share, (co-) create, (co-) author and (co-) edit digital content. At the core of these developments, social networks facilitate connections, instant communication and multimedia format sharing worldwide.

Among the most influential web 2.0 applications, Twitter is a social network and microblogging service that allows users to publish status updates, called tweets, of up to 140 characters, which are distributed to subscribed followers by instant messages, mobile phones, email or the Web. Although it was initially conceived as just a social medium for electronic communication, some users have stretched its limits and have now transformed it into an open publishing platform for micro fiction.

Far from belonging to a unified scholarly literary movement, Twitter fiction has emerged haphazardly from individual and collaborative experiments on the web. Its diversity can be illustrated in terms of a wide variety of genres that range from short stories and thrillers to haiku-style poems. In addition, the phenomenon has spread beyond its original web application to other electronic publications such as twitterzines and e-books.

Current information and communication technologies harness the weightless materialization and viral dissemination of new forms of literature in which the voice of readers and writers blend in participatory interconnected digital literary circles.

Some Twitter Fiction writers:

http://twitter.com/twitterfiction

http://twitter.com/thaumatrope

http://twitter.com/effeffingeff

http://twitter.com/ccocca

http://twitter.com/mcrfccn

http://twitter.com/microtxts

http://twitter.com/nanoism

http://twitter.com/nanoed

http://twitter.com/AStoryIn140

https://twitter.com/arjunbasu

One-minute film based on Arjun Basu’s Twister: Life


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6 Comments so far

  1.    Claudia Ceraso on October 10, 2009 1:16 pm

    Thank you for sharing this research Carla. Lots to explore here.

  2.    Tweets that mention Twitter Fiction | Carla Raguseo -- Topsy.com on October 10, 2009 1:28 pm

    [...] This post was mentioned on Twitter by carlaraguseo and carlaraguseo. carlaraguseo said: New blog pos on my Twitter Fiction presentation http://bit.ly/1twsHN #microfiction [...]

  3.    Mariel Amez on October 11, 2009 6:22 pm

    Your presentation was excellent, Carla!

    Thanks for sharing the film. Do you know which the “Twister” was? I couldn’t find it.

    Have you seen this blog? http://tinyurl.com/ylaq3qh. The Twitter ID is @twentos

  4.    carlaraguseo on October 11, 2009 6:27 pm

    Hi, Mariel! Thanks again!

    The Twister is the one you can see on the presentation. Slide 25.

    Hugs

  5.    carlaraguseo on October 11, 2009 9:23 pm

    Thanks for the blog, Mariel!
    http://ficcionminima.blogspot.com/
    I had seen it a while ago, but couldn’t keep track of the updates. New posts on Twitter Fiction! Great! I’m following it now!

  6.    Berta on October 13, 2009 12:11 am

    Really interesting, Carla. Congratulations on a great topic and presentation. Wish I could have been there. Best ;-)

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