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Adventures in Twitter fiction - Ted Talk - 3 views

This was interesting, Heidi! Thanks for sharing. I can't tell how I feel about the idea of "Twitter Fiction," but it is something I'd like to learn more about.

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started by Heidi Larson on 20 Oct 13 1 follow-up, last by Laura Stankiewicz on 20 Oct 13

Is interactive fiction the future of books? | Technology | guardian.co.uk - 2 views

www.guardian.co.uk/...ideo-and-interactive-fiction

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shared by Anna Ho on 13 Sep 11 - No Cached

Anna Ho on 13 Sep 11

IDEO's take on the future of the book

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First Twitter Fiction Festival Might Mutate Storytelling Forever - 0 views

www.21stcenturyfluency.com/blogpost.cfm

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shared by Sunanda V on 04 Nov 12 - No Cached

Sunanda V on 04 Nov 12

Intrigued to see what comes of this

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How to separate fact and fiction-lessons from journalism for educators? - 0 views

www.ted.com/...e_fact_and_fiction_online.html

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shared by Matthew Ong on 12 Dec 12 - No Cached

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Matthew Ong on 12 Dec 12

This is an interesting talk which shares techniques that journalists use to determine fact from fiction. Could be very useful for teaching critical thinking skills.

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Irina Uk on 14 Dec 12

Really interesting and definitely related to developing critical thinking skills. However, the idea that someone can crosscheck sources using Google maps to identify locations makes me wonder about how journalism in a web 2.0 ecology impacts privacy.

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50 Fictional Technologies We Wish Existed | Complex - 1 views

www.complex.com/...l-technologies-we-wish-existed

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Jenny Reuter on 24 Oct 13

Not really educational, but our section this week got me thinking about what *could* exist

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Writer Neal Stephenson Unveils His Digital Novel The Mongoliad - NYTimes.com - 1 views

www.nytimes.com/...veils-his-digital-n-97561.html

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The company, based in Seattle and San Francisco, has developed what it calls the PULP platform for creating digital novels
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aterial like background articles, images, music, and video. There are also social features that allow readers to create the
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There are also social features that allow readers to create their own profiles, earn badges for activity on the site or in the application, and interact with other readers.
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Stephenson isn’t writing the book alone. There’s a team led by a writer Mark Teppo; it also includes Greg Bear, author of Blood Music and other science fiction novels. Stephenson compared the experience to writing a TV show, and not just because it’s a team of writers.
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Garron Hillaire on 01 Sep 10

The PULP platform is an example of a writer trying to respond to people wanting more than traditional publishing. If this platform, or something like it, was widely accepted by people it might build a better case for alternative forms of publishing in education

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BBC News - The rights and wrongs of digital books - 2 views

www.bbc.co.uk/...technology-11693222

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shared by Devon Dickau on 22 Nov 10 - No Cached

The latter part of 2010 may mark the point from which future historians date the transition to screen-based reading for literary fiction as well as reference works
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However, even they are not yet willing to accept that the price of electronic texts is too high, and that readers will not pay the same for a bunch of bits as they will for a bound book, since the market knows that it costs less to send electrons over a network than it does to buy paper, make books out of it and ship the physical objects around the world
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When you buy an digital copy to read on your e-book reader, phone or laptop all you get is the copyrighted bit, and what you pay for is a licence to have a copy or copies of the text.
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Amazon recently announced that it will let Kindle owners "lend" books, but only for two weeks and only once per title.
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The idea of "intellectual property" deliberately conflates the two and allows politicians to pretend that laws about physical property should extend to digital downloads. We need to challenge this unjustifiable elision if we are to think seriously about copyright and business models in the age of electronics.
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