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Below are tweets surrounding my twitter feed (under the pseudoname 5putniko) on text and writing, made on 13th September, 2009.

The tweets were made in Japanese. English Translation follows the original Japanese text, not necessarily under the 140 character limit in Twitter (It seems that the Japanese language is easier to fit more into smaller texts )

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5putniko 私、モロにネット世代に育ったわけなんだけど、文字の読み書きに関する意識全般がネット以前と全く違う気がする。まず、論文やら本やらを書くとき「主題」を決めて、Linearに詰めて書くという手法が気分的に物凄く「かったるい」っていうか時代遅れな気がする

5putniko I basically grew up right in the middle of the internet generation, and I feel that the way I perceive reading and writing text is completely different from the generation before. Deciding on a dissertation or a book “topic” and writing linearly to support it feels absolutely tedious and pas·sé

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[h4nz]

h4nz禿同. RT @5putniko 私、モロにネット世代に育ったわけなんだけど、文字の読み書きに関する意識全般がネット以前と全く違う気がする。まず、論文やら本やらを書くとき「主題」を決めて、Linearに詰めて書くという手法が気分的に物凄く「かったるい」っていうか時代遅れな気がする

h4nz I completely agree RT @5putniko I basically grew up right in the middle of the internet generation and I feel that the way I perceive reading and writing text is completely different from the generation before. Deciding on a dissertation or a book “topic” and writing linearly to support it feels absolutely tedious and pas·sé

h4nzさ らに言えば、論文を査読する世代との ジェネレーションギャップもあるので悩ましい. もちろん自分のコースの教授陣はいわゆる”ニューメディア”に早くから取り組んできた人ではあるけど、彼ら自身どういうスタイルを学生に求めるべきかとい う指針は手探り状態ではなかろか.

h4nz To add to this there’s also a generation gap with the tutors who review our dissertations which also makes a mess.  I guess my course professors have worked with the so called ‘new media’ from an early stage, but I think they themselves are messily trying to figure out what writing styles they’re seeking in their students

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[7gano]
7gano@5putniko たしかにネタのDB作って書く、みたいなとこはあるな。PC無いと作文できません

7gano@5putniko I guess I’ve got a tendency to make a database of articles and then write.  I can’t write without a PC.

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[jojporg]

jojporg@5putniko w　おもしろいねー　code書くのはどんな感じなんだろ？？

jojporg@5putniko lol. thats interesting, I wonder what it’s like to write code?

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[mirka]

mirka@5putniko Totally agree linear/bloated writing is dead. I practically abstain from physical books now and feel less and less guilty about it

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My dissertation probably

summarizes in

about 3 Tweets

[britney] “I think Rabbi Pearlstein is really pissed at me. Today in Jewish class he was going through the Halakha, which I thought was the Jewish word for Hannah Montana but turns out to be like a whole bunch of boring laws about days of the week and pork and shit, and I was like, “Rabbi P., is there any way you could break this down into a bunch of tweets? I’ll read it on my phone on the way to rehearsal.” [/britney]

The excerpt is from a satiric New Yorker item containing entries from Britney Spears’ conversion diary, in response to the story reported in The Sun about Spears converting to Judaism.  I presume Spears here is portrayed as a symbol of the dumbing twitter generation in America, but I feel there’s some truth in her dialogue.  I have repeatedly found myself attending conferences or reading lengthy books and thinking – “Can’t this stuff just be summarized in about 3 Tweets?”

[hiromitweet]

5putniko I’m from the Skimming Generation.  Reading journals I just cant stop thinking  “This stuff probably summarizes in about 3 tweets.” スキミング世代なのだ。ジャーナルとか読むと「この内容、３ツイートで網羅できるだろ」とか思ってしまうわけだ。

from 5putniko’s Twitter feed, 13 September 2009

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Yes, I have become extremely attention deficit.  I have difficulties staying on one web page to read texts longer than 1000 words (and I’m sure my Twitter use is decreasing that number) My mind can’t stop hopping from one hyperlink to another, my knowledge seems to be primarily constructed through skimming through tags, blog posts, streamed videos and twitter feeds, as much as, or probably more than, studying grand authors like Derrida, Foucalt or Latour.

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Twitter’s Language Conventions

I’m tweeting under the user name 5putniko, posting updates for my artist alias Sputniko!. At this time of writing (September 14, 2009) 5putniko has 180 Twitter followers which includes her fans and friends.

Twitter is a popular micro-blogging site where users can post their status updates, ponders, ideas, news feeds and banal diaries (‘I ate a banana’) as long as the post contains less than 140 characters. These posts are called “Tweets” and “Tweeting” refers to posting these mini updates to the site. Users must ‘follow’ other users to read their tweets.

The ‘@’ mark is used in reply of a tweet. For example, @5putniko means that the tweet is in reply to the user 5putniko’s tweet. “RT” stands for “Retweeting” and it is used when the user wants to tweet a whole excerpt of another user’s tweet. An example use would be: RT @5putniko I ate a banana
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