Twitter Essays on Digital Writing for #digiwrimo
As a final collaborative activity to Digital Writing Month, we were asked to come up with a Twitter Essay that captures the essence of our views on writing digitally. I want to give a big shoutout to @slamteacher and @jessifer and others for coordinating the month. Thank you!
Ideas that move beneath the code, expanding outward w/multi-media and many possibilities - that's digital writing. #digiwrimo #twitteressay- This was mine. I was trying to capture the essence of possibilities inherent in digital spaces and digital tools for expanding our notions of writing.
#twitteressay ≈ essay ≈ attempt ≈ trial ≈ test ≈ experiment ≈ assay ≈ sample ≈ endeavour ≈ digital writing ≈ #digiwrimo- I love how Anna goes after the experimental aspect of digital writing, and the trial/testing elements. I agree.
Digital writing is something that will continue to blur as tech and the internet integrates further into our lives #twitteressay #digiwrimo- Ryan makes a good point here. We don't know where things are going but is there any doubt that we are in the midst of change right now? Are we ready? Adaptive?
Typing. Linking. Tweeting and ReTweeting. Mash-ups. Angle-brackets. Encoding. Press publish. Press send. Press run. #twitteressay #digiwrimo- Many of us noted the publishing aspect -- the expansion of a wider audience -- and I agree. Now, how best to engage that audience?
Cursive transformed into Arial Helvetica & the dreaded Comic Sans. Fingers flying over keys. Still moving pictures. #digiwrimo #twitteressay- This reminds me of some inquiry work I did around fonts, and choices, and the impact that the shape of letters have on the ways we write. Pretty fascinating.
Writing digitally occupies tenuous spaces between communicating & thinking; hearing & listening; & emerging as self #twitteressay #digiwrimo- I love this connection between writing and thinking. I wonder about the choice of "tenuous" and whether that reflects the uncertainty of our times, and our views of technology.
My fingers tap the keys. I pause to consider. Who on earth is listening? Could be anyone, anywhere. I keep typing. #digiwrimo #twitteressay- I've been listening. So , there's one of us. :)
Idleness can be good in moderation as it gives time for both rest and reflection, but not to the detriment of progress. #e365 #twitteressay- Good point -- take time to be quiet, too. The digital spaces are a hubbub (love that word) of activity, and we can often feel lost in the noise. Find the balance.
#digiwrimo illuminated the struggle of translating my voice into visible spaces with limited time. Then relinquishing control. #twitteressay- The concept of the writer losing some control over content is real, and intriguing. If nothing else, the reader now has more power over a writer's ideas than ever before. You can bet that frightens the heck out of a lot of writers, and publishing companies. But that's the hackable, writeable society (a nod to @poh)
#twitteressay #DigiWriMo Frm a crwd or sngl source dig. writing can fit on a matchbox or span oceans.Ech piece1 fiber in a rug.We make+share- This is just so poetic -- I love the matchbox and ocean dichotomy.
Digital writing is ready-to-hand, come-as-you-are, just-in-time. Changing w/ you, digital writing = a shadow-boxer. #twitteressay #DigiWriMo- Another great metaphor -- the shadow-boxing writer. But with whom are we boxing? The world or ourselves?
It's #digiwrimo. It's a #twitteressay. It's simultaneously visible text and (in)visible code. It's voice for an audience with open pores.- We don't often talk enough about the code beneath our writing. We should.
Digital writing is what I already do & the inf horiz of what I wish to do, both present & potential, indiv & collab #twitteressay #digiwrimo
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VanessaVaileMissed mine: Just one #twitteressay 4 #WriMo-Dammerung? #digiwrimo…#nanowrimo…#nablopomo…&altria…I'd rather not… Bartleby that…#twitterchitter2012-12-07T22:06:19.806Z
ganskiThanks for including me your reflection piece. And thanks for pulling these all together. So interesting to read them alongside each other.2012-12-04T00:20:15.912Z
KevinHodgsonMaybe it has to do with the constraints of traditional writing practices -- the formality of it as we learned it -- and the digital spaces have opened up those...more2012-12-01T20:20:12.491Z- Elizabeth Kate SwitajA lot of these essays comment explicitly or implicitly (through use) on the punctuation of digital writing. While it's certainly not unheard of for < > or ≈ to...more2012-12-01T15:33:36.019Z
- VanessaVaileMissed mine: Just one #twitteressay 4 #WriMo-Dammerung? #digiwrimo…#nanowrimo…#nablopomo…&altria…I'd rather not… Bartleby that…#twitterchitter2012-12-07T22:06:19.806Z
- ganskiThanks for including me your reflection piece. And thanks for pulling these all together. So interesting to read them alongside each other.2012-12-04T00:20:15.912Z
- KevinHodgsonMaybe it has to do with the constraints of traditional writing practices -- the formality of it as we learned it -- and the digital spaces have opened up those...Maybe it has to do with the constraints of traditional writing practices -- the formality of it as we learned it -- and the digital spaces have opened up those ideas and allowed us to be creative and slippery with the rules. This drives some people batty. Others, not so much. It is interesting to consider, though.more2012-12-01T20:20:12.491Z
- Elizabeth Kate SwitajA lot of these essays comment explicitly or implicitly (through use) on the punctuation of digital writing. While it's certainly not unheard of for < > or ≈ to...A lot of these essays comment explicitly or implicitly (through use) on the punctuation of digital writing. While it's certainly not unheard of for < > or ≈ to appear in print, writing digitally does seem to encourage playful experimentation with punctuation marks, and not just on Twitter where space is a factor. I wonder why this is.more2012-12-01T15:33:36.019Z
