{"41243":{"#nid":"41243","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Celebrate Bloomsday with Performance Twitter","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EJust what is Twitter good for? Sure, it\u0027s good for getting Tweets about your favorite celebrities like Miley Cyrus with updates like \u0022daddys giving me therapy. this is worth 10000000 dollars.\u0022 If you\u0027re not a celeb hound, however, just what can you do with Twitter? Sure, you can keep in touch with what friends are buying at the grocery store, but there\u0027s got to be more to it, doesn\u0027t there? \u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech\u0027s Ian Bogost and Ian McCarthy of LinkedIn were discussing the issue and wondered, \u0022what if the focus on socialization and identity is actually the least interesting way to use Twitter?\u0022 What about using Twitter as a performance tool? So they came up with the idea of recreating a chapter on Twitter from James Joyce\u0027s novel Ulysses and broadcasting it on June 16, the day the action in the novel takes place in 1904. Every year \u0022Bloomsday,\u0022 as it\u0027s known, is celebrated in Joyce\u0027s home country of Ireland and in other English-speaking parts of the world. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EBogost, associate professor at the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts, and McCarthy conceived the notion and first performed it in 2007 using more than 50 characters from the \u0022Wandering Rocks\u0022 chapter of the book. They did it again last year and plan to reprise the performance, this June 16. They have several dozen characters from the novel who all Tweet their acts from the book at the correct fictional times. The chapter is famous for showing the interlocking events of characters in central Dublin, so the Twitter format is apropos. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EBogost explains the idea further in his blog Bogost.com: \u0022Joyce conceived of the book\u0027s principal character, Leopold Bloom, as an everyman counterpoint to Odysseus, whose adventure Bloom\u0027s parallels. Each of the book\u0027s 18 chapters take place in roughly an hour\u0027s time.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022The 10th of these, Wandering Rocks, follows 19 Dubliners walking through the city doing their daily business, some intersecting with others. It\u0027s a famous and often-studied section of the book, one that also speaks to an experience of urban modernity that has become second-nature to us now.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Enthusiasts often retrace the characters\u0027 steps on Bloomsday, and innumerable animated maps and the like have been created by fans and scholars. The latter technique still doesn\u0027t really represent the interleaved simultaneity of Wandering Rocks, the complexity yet ordinariness of space and interaction that Joyce\u0027s writing accomplishes. And the former technique turns the ordinariness of the episode into a kind of theme park, missing the importance of the Wandering Rocks as a vignette of the scenario that grounds the rest of the novel.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe Tweets begin on June 16, at 2:55 pm Dublin time, which is 9:55 am Eastern time. To sign up to receive them follow the Twitter users for the project found at the bottom of \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.bogost.com\/blog\/bloomsday_on_twitter.shtml\u0022\u003Ethis page\u003C\/a\u003E.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"Ian Bogost recreates the \u0022Wandering Rocks\u0022 chapter from James Joyce\u0027s Ulysses on Bloomsday, June 16.","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Ian Bogost recreates a chapter from Ulysses on Twitter"}],"uid":"27310","created_gmt":"2009-06-12 00:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:02:18","author":"David Terraso","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2009-06-15T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2009-06-15T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"41244":{"id":"41244","type":"image","title":"Ulysses Twitter","body":null,"created":"1449174292","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 20:24:52","changed":"1475894366","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:39:26","alt":"Ulysses Twitter","file":{"fid":"190037","name":"ttp32807.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/ttp32807_2.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/ttp32807_2.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":62769,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/ttp32807_2.jpg?itok=vLbP07I4"}}},"media_ids":["41244"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.bogost.com\/blog\/bloomsday_on_twitter.shtml","title":"Twitter Performance 2007"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.bogost.com\/blog\/twittering_rocks.shtml","title":"Twitter Performance 2008"}],"groups":[{"id":"1183","name":"Home"}],"categories":[{"id":"143","name":"Digital Media and Entertainment"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"}],"keywords":[{"id":"315","name":"bogost"},{"id":"317","name":"joyce"},{"id":"314","name":"twitter"},{"id":"316","name":"ulysses"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EGeorgia Tech Media Relations\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ELaura Diamond\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:laura.diamond@comm.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Elaura.diamond@comm.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E404-894-6016\u003Cbr \/\u003EJason Maderer\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:maderer@gatech.edu\u0022\u003Emaderer@gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E404-660-2926\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["david.terraso@comm.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}