My master's thesis on online communication

[kandrathe]

6[/s]..7 out of 10.

I'm not even going to try to start writing today. I'll spend today thinking about my topic and see if I can get some feedback from my classmates (and hopefully from you:)). Hopefully I'll come up witha few pointers.

Feel free to offer any thoughts you might have on the subject:)

- [wcip]Angel

Medium and context has much to do with it. Look at poetry. e.e.cummings comes to mind. In literature, I'm thinking of the most notorius in outrageous gonzo literary style, like Hunter S. Thompson. Mark Twain, was an embarassment to proper literary customs of that day. I doubt this phenomena you've captured is limited to a literary domain. Is there a similiar transformation occuring in other mediums? Probably, but outside the scope of your discussion. I would explore the force driving the change, in this case the internet.

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Another idea: What are the similiarities between the forces that inspired the art revolutions of bauhaus, dada, fluxus and post modernism, and the transformation of literature, and media for that matter by the advent of the internet? Perhaps changes in technologies might be catalysts for re-addressing the "rules" to see if they still apply. Is the advent of the internet and it's evolution into a global social soup a force for redefining the norm of literary sensibility?