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Forum for Philosophy

March 2nd, 2013

New Media and the Future of Literacy

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Estimated reading time: 10 minutes

Forum for Philosophy

March 2nd, 2013

New Media and the Future of Literacy

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Estimated reading time: 10 minutes

Miranda Glover/ Charles Leadbeater/ Sam Riviere/ Ellen Helsper

 


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Some people have been struck by the aphoristic potential of Twitter. Others see developments in new media as bringing the era of the literature to an end. We explore the way new media impacts on traditional literary and philosophical forms of writing and reading.

 

Speakers
Miranda Glover
Group Account Director, FMI Group & Author, Meanwhile Street
Charles Leadbeater
Author, We Think: The Power of Mass Creativity
Sam Riviere
Poet, 81 Austerities

Chair
Ellen Helsper
Lecturer in Media and Communications, LSE

 

Recorded on 2 March 2013 at the LSE as part of the LSE Literary Festival

 

 

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