What is a “twittory”? Apparently it is a story developed by a large number of persons (in this case 140) using Twitter, each person being allowed one tweet (a maximum of 140 characters).While the concept it is all but new (did you ever play that game, “Exquisite Corpse”, literary pastime of noble origins invented by the Surrealist, where you each had to write one line of a story?) the idea of using Twitter, a social network with particular (aesthetic?) restrictions, is engaging.With regards to the “publishing” phase, The Darkness Inside will be podcast at The Podcast Network, and later turned into a machinima.Angela Thomas underscores the educational potential of such a proceeding, encouraging tutors to employ it in classes.I wonder instead about the “political” (a hundred brackets around the word) implications, if the theme of the collaborative storytelling were something real that we would like to change. It would be only a literary exercise on paper, while on social networks everything would acquire the status of a statement. Or would it?uhmmm…/news courtesy of Angela Thomas

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Not about cross media but remediation - from an italian magazine: “Roberto Bernocco, a programmer from Bra (small town near Cuneo, worldly renowned as the originator of the Slow Food movement), wrote a novel of 384 pages on his mobile phone, “Compagni di viaggio”, available at Lulu.com. The downloads have already reached the number of 19.900 copies”.
I wonder how the style has been affected by the (unusual) medium, will post soon about it.