Character Development and Twitter Fiction

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After yesterday's in depth exploration and analysis of several born digital fictions (like Inanimate Alice), today we are focusing on shorter narratives like those crafted on Twitter.

To aid in our Twitter writing we are going to form three groups (much like yesterday) and fill in a google doc, there is one doc per group.

Group 1's doc is here.

Group 2's doc is here.

Group 3's doc is here.


Please fill it in completely and be ready to share with the class.

About the Course

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Course Description

Web 2.0 storytelling employs the creative use of digital tools and offers exciting new possibilities for collaboration and sharing. Storytelling practices and features that have grown out of the Web 2.0 technologies and cultural forms will be introduced. The new ways of creating and experiencing narrative (often nonlinear and increasingly media-rich) that the social web can provide are explored, along with basic concepts of storytelling and its use as an educational and marketing tool in this new environment.

Course Outcomes

By the end of this course, you should be able to:

·       apply theories about electronic literature in their own interpretations of specific works

·       reflect upon web 2.0 technologies and platforms suitability for narrative

·       read, experience and critique nonlinear and multimodal texts

Course Materials & Resources

●      Class Blog: http://exsm3989fall2015.blogspot.ca/