Interactivity, Collaboration, and Authoring in Social Media (International Series on Computer, Entertainment and Media Technology)

Social Media has been around longer than most of us think it has. Throughout history people have used the media available to them to share ideas, offer opinions, and create a community through their dialogue. Social media has provided agency and encouraged collaboration that has spurred development of new genres, whether Volvelles in the 13th century, Commonplace Books in the 18th century, or Twitter sites today. The author takes you on a dash through the history of social media before digital and on a more leisurely tour of social media in our digital age. As a proponent of using current technology as fully as possible for the expression of narrative, the author then presents Romeo and Juliet: After Love Comes Destruction. Created by her students, this social media narrative collaboration pulls the classic Shakespeare story into a clandestine world of emails, Facebook pages, and messages and provides a new view of what really happened to Romeo and Juliet through the eyes of today's digital natives.