Date of Submission
Spring 2015
Academic Programs and Concentrations
Literature; Experimental Humanities
Project Advisor 1
Maria Cecire
Abstract/Artist's Statement
This study aims to explore the potential of the social networking platform Twitter in redefining literature. Focusing on the brief, fragmented, interactive and democratizing nature of text that takes the form of tweets, it analyzes the platform’s functions in negotiating the aesthetics of language, mediating human creativity with computation, and shifting the power relations in the production and consumption of literary products. While the question underpinning the study is “What constitute literariness today?”, This project looks at poetry, fiction and essays produced on Twitter with the ambition of offering insights into the field of cultural production at large in the age of Web 2.0.
Open Access Agreement
On-Campus only
Creative Commons License
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Recommended Citation
Mao, Yishu, "Twitterature: New Dimensions of Literature in the Age of Social Media" (2015). Senior Projects Spring 2015. 68.
https://digitalcommons.bard.edu/senproj_s2015/68
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