The use of Twitter and other Web 2.0 applications as a contemporary practice to write or re-write literary texts is developing participative, multimodal, and co-constructed creations where the roles of authorship and audience become intertwined. This panel aims to investigate the multifaceted aspects of this phenomenon in the Italian and in the international context. Can this be considered a promising literary practice? How does a platform like Twitter affect what we read and write? What are the possible effects of the development of transnational literary and linguistic projects?
The panel will take place at NeMLA Convention – Washington DC (March 21-24, 2019). Please upload a 300-word abstract and short bio at https://www.cfplist.com/nemla/Home/S/17352
Organizers: Giusy Di Filippo (College of the Holy Cross), Martina Di Florio (Trinity College)
The deadline to submit an abstract is September 30, 2018.