A presentation by Continuous Labs at Arse Elektronika 2008, September 26 in San Francisco, CA.

1. What is the 21st-Century Novel?

2. What is the 21st-Century Novel? Based on a presentation by Reesa Brown & Kit O'Connell Given at Arse Elektronika 2008 in San Francisco, CA on September 26, 2008 Audio Version: http://continuouslabs.com/ae2008/Arse08.mp3 Links from this presentation: http://delicious.com/todfox/ae2 Released under a Creative Commons Share Alike License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/us/ For more information visit: Continuous Labs -- http://www.continuouslabs.com/ Reesa Brown -- http://www.reesabrown.com/ Kit O'Connell -- http://www.kitoconnell.com/

3. Howard Hendrix "I think the ongoing and increasing sublimation of the private space of consciousness into public netspace is profoundly pernicious. For that reason I don't much like to blog, wiki, chat, post, LiveJournal, or lounge in SFF.net. A problem with the whole wikicliki, sick-o-fancy, jerque-du-cercle of a networking and connection-based order is that, if you "go along to get along" for too long, there's a danger you'll no longer remember how to go it alone when the ethics of the situation demand it. "I'm also opposed to the increasing presence in our organization of webscabs, who post their creations on the net for free. A scab is someone who works for less than union wages or on non-union terms; more broadly, a scab is someone who feathers his own nest and advances his own career by undercutting the efforts of his fellow workers to gain better pay and working conditions for all. Webscabs claim they're just posting their books for free in an attempt to market and publicize them, but to my mind they're undercutting those of us who aren't giving it away for free and are trying to get publishers to pay a better wage for our hard work. "

4. Cory Doctorow “ But there’s another reason that these new media tell stories in different ways from their old media predecessors: They’re telling different stories. TV sitcoms, novels, feature films, and other traditional forms are cages as well as frames. The reason that every sitcom lasts 22 minutes is that no one tries to make sitcoms about stories that take five minutes to tell. The reason movies last 90 minutes is that no one tries to make feature films about subjects that take 30 seconds to elucidate — or 30 days. “ The critics of new media often point to its failure to live up to the standards of old media. Some scientists and science journalists wring their hands at the idea that the Mars landers and the Large Hadron Collider emanate information in the form of anthropomorphized Twitter messages, arguing that these messages lack the formal virtues of science reporting and papers. “ It’s true. They do. They don’t succeed at being better in-depth science articles than the science articles. They succeed at being better Twitter messages than science articles; they succeed at producing and sustaining a different kind of interest and understanding than a long article in the weekend paper. “ The low cost of deploying new media online is revealing a heretofore unsuspected appetite for stories in different boxes than we’ve heretofore used — and a universe of stories waiting to be told.”Don't Judge Old Media by New Rules”

6. Sex, Technology and Storytelling

10. Modern Explorations of Storytelling and Technology

28. Storytelling Business Models

31. The Continuous Coast Project

37. Conclusion: 21st-century Storytelling

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