THE TECHNOLOGICAL FORMS OF ALT LIT POETRY “140+ 140!” was the tweet that
heralded a defining change to Twitter. On November 7, 2017, Twitter founder JACK …

Digital platforms have transformed the way that authors write and distribute literature and the
way that readers access and consume it. Recent studies of contemporary literature have …

Abstract Writing in The New York Review of Books in April 2010 the Canadian writer,
Margaret Atwood, described the delight of Twitter as being “like having fairies at the bottom …

Therefore, broader forms of communication, such as narrative, spoken and sign language,
audio and video recordings of performances, purely visual comics, and video games are of …

Like e-books and so much else in digital commerce, the poetry printed out by Instagram give
us back the book-stripping away the social features such as reader comments, nested …

A poet's readers become first and foremost re-tweeters, with every additional re-tweet
helping to maintain the overarching advertising dominance of Twitter over other …

During the Q&A after my 2017 talk at Michigan State University's Global Digital Humanities
conference, a faculty member raised his hand and asked a series of questions that …

As a popular writing form, Twitter/X literature (“Twitter Literature”) seems to have come and
gone without leaving a lasting impression, and even the use of Twitter by well-known writers …

It was the year 2000—not all that long ago in real time, but a millennia ago in Internet time.
With well over a million web domains and nearly four million users in the world, we were …

From Instapoetry to BookTube, contemporary literary cultures and practices are increasingly
intertwined with social media. In this lively and wide-ranging study, Bronwen Thomas …