July 19, 2022 – 15:00. Edificio 29 (building 29, Carta), Sala Riunioni, piano terra (ground floor), Piazza Leonardo da Vinci 26

The Internet and the digitalization of texts have transformed the way literature is viewed, processed and exchanged across the first two decades of the new millennium. Although e-readers have traditionally been used to passively view a text, this medium has evolved beyond its primary function. Some e-readers can now access other electronic documents such as newsfeeds, and e-reader apps can be used in conjunction with the internet to hack existing works and create entirely new one. This empowering development has had wider implications for readers and writers of digitalized literature. As technology has expanded a widening creative field of writings to include supplementary ‘texts’ such as Twitter feeds, Facebook comments, Tumblr blogs and forum exchanges, writers have also grown to extend texts and their contexts in new ways and readers have begun to converse with authors online through social networking sites and sometimes in the collaborative production of new works. This paper will consider how contemporary writings have responded to and been shaped by ongoing challenges and opportunities of digital innovations to publishing in the twenty-first century. Focusing on case studies drawn from Twitterature, mobile novels and text hacking, the paper will ask how Literature 2.0 is impacting the ways we write and read today.