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‘Tweeting Ben Jonson’s Walk: Experiencing the Spatial-Temporality of the “Foot Voyage”’.
- Source :
- Cultural & Social History; Feb2017, Vol. 14 Issue 1, p107-124, 18p
- Publication Year :
- 2017
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Abstract
- In 1618, the playwright Ben Jonson walked from London to Edinburgh. In 2009 details of that walk were recovered in a manuscript account. In 2013, Jonson’s ‘Foot-Voyage’ was tweeted real-time from July to October, and a linked blog hosted a digital map deepened with information from the text. Jonson’s ‘virtual’ journey was to enhance public engagement, his absorption into new communities echoed by exchanges with their twenty-first-century inhabitants. Simultaneously, the tweets suggested the spatial-temporality of Jonson’s actions in a manner not discernable in the linear narrative, revealing their kinetic quality. This stimulated a rethinking of the walk’s historical temporality, which challenges the historical distance between walker and audience. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]
- Subjects :
- PHILOSOPHY of time
SOCIAL space
DIGITAL humanities
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 14780038
- Volume :
- 14
- Issue :
- 1
- Database :
- Supplemental Index
- Journal :
- Cultural & Social History
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 121886222
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1080/14780038.2016.1237408