Comments on: Twitter: enabling the new global rubberneckers http://stilgherrian.com/human-nature/twitter-enabling-the-new-global-rubberneckers/ All publication is a political act. All communication is propaganda. All art is pornography. All business is personal. All hail Eris. Vive les poissons rouges sauvages! Thu, 09 Feb 2012 21:24:41 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Stilgherrian http://stilgherrian.com/human-nature/twitter-enabling-the-new-global-rubberneckers/#comment-16027 Stilgherrian Sat, 14 Feb 2009 05:33:15 +0000 http://stilgherrian.com/?p=3450#comment-16027 <strong>@Sweet Sister Morphine :</strong> I don't mind "Twitfic", since it's no different from terms like "Chick Lit". As people explore the new media tools, there'll be many new media and art forms. One curious example was the <a href="http://blog.wired.com/underwire/2008/10/twitterers-stag.html">Twitter re-enactment of <em>War of the Worlds</em></a>. @Sweet Sister Morphine : I don’t mind “Twitfic”, since it’s no different from terms like “Chick Lit”. As people explore the new media tools, there’ll be many new media and art forms. One curious example was the Twitter re-enactment of War of the Worlds.

]]> By: Sweet Sister Morphine http://stilgherrian.com/human-nature/twitter-enabling-the-new-global-rubberneckers/#comment-15903 Sweet Sister Morphine Wed, 11 Feb 2009 05:06:20 +0000 http://stilgherrian.com/?p=3450#comment-15903 I find the idea of recreational grief bizarre. The only way I can rationalise it is on the basis that the people who indulge in such things do so because they have never experienced real tragedy in their own lives, and in some way want to know how it feels. I guess I felt that way as an alienated, middle-class teenager. I don't regret life giving me a few hard knocks as a wake-up call to what a stupid preoccupation that is, this doesn't mean that I in any way enjoyed the process. As for Twitter, it's an interesting medium, and handy for a person like myself who has always had random, disjointed thoughts that I feel the pressing need to share with anyone who will listen, although I'm still paddling in the shallow end of Twiter. And while the take-up is still low, the people who have taken it up have found some interesting (and less morbid) uses for it. Like the advent of <a href="http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/fun/twitter_othar_01.php">Twitter fiction</a> (or should I just start calling it "Twitfic" now to save society the trouble?), or even <a href="http://www.cheeseburgergothic.com/archives/35">collaborative Twitter fiction</a>. I find the idea of recreational grief bizarre. The only way I can rationalise it is on the basis that the people who indulge in such things do so because they have never experienced real tragedy in their own lives, and in some way want to know how it feels. I guess I felt that way as an alienated, middle-class teenager. I don’t regret life giving me a few hard knocks as a wake-up call to what a stupid preoccupation that is, this doesn’t mean that I in any way enjoyed the process.

As for Twitter, it’s an interesting medium, and handy for a person like myself who has always had random, disjointed thoughts that I feel the pressing need to share with anyone who will listen, although I’m still paddling in the shallow end of Twiter.

And while the take-up is still low, the people who have taken it up have found some interesting (and less morbid) uses for it. Like the advent of Twitter fiction (or should I just start calling it “Twitfic” now to save society the trouble?), or even collaborative Twitter fiction.

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