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Title:

The Novel in 2050

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Organizer:
Richard Nash, Red Lemonade
Description:
Research shows reading a book for as little as six minutes may cut stress levels in half. But have Twitter-length attention spans decreased demand for novels? What is the future of the "non-networked" book? This panel will debate the relevance of novels in a networked world.
Questions
Answered:
  1. Will novels exist in 2050? What will they look like?
  2. Have modern Twitter-length attention spans decreased interest in novels?
  3. How might crowdsourcing and collaboration contribute to the creation of a novel?
  4. What are some recent examples of networked books?
  5. Are young people reading novels?
  6. Does a novel communicate differently on a Kindle, iPhone, or other electronic device?
  7. Is the Internet more of a threat to publishing than film or television were in the 20th century?
  8. Why is technology mostly absent in the plots of contemporary novels?
  9. How might novels use games and cross-platform storytelling?
  10. What about novels should be preserved? What needs to change?
Level:
Advanced
Category:
Community / Online Community, Content, Licensing / Fair Use / Copyright, New Technology / Next Generation, Writing / Technical Writing
Type:
Panel
Event:
Interactive 2010
An Xiao
on 17/8/09
A novel concept! Hope this goes through.
joanne mcneil
on 17/8/09
Another panelist confirmed -- me -- Joanne McNeil, The Tomorrow Museum. More to come
Dave Gray
on 17/8/09
This is a great idea and intersects nicely with the unbook panel. Question 8 is an intersting one. Look forward to hearing more.
joanne mcneil
on 18/8/09
Thanks, Dave! The unbook panel does look intriguing.
Peggy Nelson
on 19/8/09
I had a short film in SXSW in 2006, and now am doing a new hybrid of multimedia and storytelling using Twitter, so I think this panel is VERY timely! I think we may be beyond the novel but that need not be a bad thing ;)
Richard Eoin Nash
on 19/8/09
Also added to the panel, writer Stephen Elliott is the author of seven books including The Adderall Diaries (September 2009) and Happy Baby, a finalist for the New York Public Library's Young Lion Award as well as a best book of 2004 in Salon.com, Newsday, Chicago New City, the Journal News, and the Village Voice. In addition to writing fiction he frequently writes on politics. In 2004 he wrote Looking Forward To It, about the quest for the Democratic Presidential nomination.

Elliott's writing has been featured in Esquire, The New York Times, GQ, Best American Non-Required Reading 2005 and 2007, Best American Erotica, and Best Sex Writing 2006. He was a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University and is a member of the San Francisco Writer's Grotto. He is the editor of The Rumpus.
Joe A
on 22/8/09
Love Question 6, looking forward to this panel.
Anna Maguire
on 23/8/09
As I live in Australia won't be making this, but find this topic fascinating. A crucial one for publishers to get their minds across to understand where a part of their business will go in the future. I really believe in the interactive book (for lack of another word) and think we will see greater developments in this area.
joanne mcneil
on 3/9/09
Added to the panel: Lev Grossman, author of the novels "The Magicians" and "Codex." He is also senior writer and book critic for Time magazine. Grossman blogs at Nerd World: http://nerdworld.blogs.time.com/
joanne mcneil
on 3/9/09
Also "The Novel in 2050" is one of the New Yorker "Book Bench" blog's top picks for SXSW: http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/books/2009/08/sxsw-panelpicker.html
Games Online
on 3/11/09
A novel concept. Interesting
iphone ringtone maker
on 13/11/09
I'd be super into learning from Kris. Dig it!
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