Sunday, 27 May 2012

A Twovel (Due Wednesday)



How is Twitter changing the way the reader interacts with a book?  Cite at least twice from this article here
150 words, please

2 comments:

  1. Twitter’s purpose was originally completely different, now people are starting to play around with the idea of short posts and as the story for the New Yorker is cut down and posted in pieces they have no idea whether this is going to work or not “Currently, authors tackle the arduous process of writing and publishing a novel without any notion of its appeal to readers”. This shows that we try to come up with new ways of communicating already known ideas. As the author says "intimacy of reaching people through their phones, and... the odd poetry that can happen in a hundred and forty characters." I think that this shows that this will also change the overall form of the text and feeling that we get from it. It does not necessary mean that this is a bad thing but it all depends on the audience. On the other hand the idea of introducing something from a completely different perspective is intriguing. If people are going to like then certainly in future the way we read things will change but then I also think that some people will always stick to the “traditional” paper.

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  2. Its not. The above is just an experiment eg: "been wondering about how to write fiction whose structure would lend itself to serialization on Twitter,"

    Its not realy changing anything. Its just a different form of publishing. In fact its even more annoying then just giving a book.

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