TY - JOUR AU - Holmes, Jeff PY - 2013/10/31 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - Twitter Storytelling as a New Literacy Practice JF - AoIR Selected Papers of Internet Research JA - SPIR VL - 3 IS - 0 SE - Papers H DO - UR - https://spir.aoir.org/ojs/index.php/spir/article/view/9085 SP - AB - This paper analyzes the Twitter feed for the launch of Mass Effect 3 in order to explore the ways digital media reshape how we tell stories and share experiences. In particular, this feed highlights four important features of new media storytelling: the structure of the medium informs the crafted fictions of the story; these stories rely on both the “real” nature of the Twitter medium as well as the fictional context of the narrative world; the story exists within the “real world” of the reader by being enmeshed with their everyday stream of other writing and reading; and readers have opportunities to participate and actively engage with the story in new ways. Together, these features represent a new literacy and a new way of framing our understanding of storytelling. ER -