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Short attention span theater: narrative and models of interaction

[This post is the second in a series from new media artist Peggy Nelson considering the impact of technology on narrative. Nelson's work includes a barcode narrative, a PowerPoint essay, Twitter novels and a host of exciting new ways of looking at the idea of story. —Ed. ]
No one, it seems, has time to read [...]

Robert Darnton looks to the past to imagine future news narratives: Walter Winchell and “paragraph men”

What might life without books look like, and how will the shift to digital texts and images change news narratives? Earlier this month, Nieman Lab staffer Megan Garber wrote about the “Gutenberg Parenthesis”—the idea that the reign of printed texts will come to be seen as a brief period in human history.
Following up on Garber’s [...]