Twitter is still reinventing the way we communicate. At 140 characters per tweet, it is so easy, and somewhat mindless to broadcast a message to the world (or at least your followers). The common way we view these short messages is in list form which maintains our perception of each tweet being independent of the next.
Now butt each tweet one after the other in paragraph form. The perceived effect is that we are now writing one, extremely long story (narrative, documentary, autobiography, etc.) This is what my project aims to explore.
Whether or not you are aware of it, your Twitter account, @alias, has a persona of its own. And if you were calculating about it, you may have purposefully created the personality perceived through your tweets. In a serendipitous event, while I was trying to form this idea of “short messages combined to form narrative,” a friend (unknowing of my new project) sent this to me in an email. Briefly, Andrea Pitzer writes about Peggy Nelson’s intentional use of Twitter to bring characters (fictional/historical) to life. Can Twitter and SMS be leveraged to create a narrative 140/160 characters at at time?
Story Writing, 160 Characters at a Time
Twitter is still reinventing the way we communicate. At 140 characters per tweet, it is so easy, and somewhat mindless to broadcast a message to the world (or at least your followers). The common way we view these short messages is in list form which maintains our perception of each tweet being independent of the next.
Now butt each tweet one after the other in paragraph form. The perceived effect is that we are now writing one, extremely long story (narrative, documentary, autobiography, etc.) This is what my project aims to explore.
Whether or not you are aware of it, your Twitter account, @alias, has a persona of its own. And if you were calculating about it, you may have purposefully created the personality perceived through your tweets. In a serendipitous event, while I was trying to form this idea of “short messages combined to form narrative,” a friend (unknowing of my new project) sent this to me in an email. Briefly, Andrea Pitzer writes about Peggy Nelson’s intentional use of Twitter to bring characters (fictional/historical) to life. Can Twitter and SMS be leveraged to create a narrative 140/160 characters at at time?