Tag: twitter

My Remix Project: A Thread

The text I remixed was a story I wrote entitled “My Side.” The short story is told through both perspectives of a high school couple named Jesse and Veronica. The story is about Jesse discovering that Veronica was cheating on him. It flips back and forth between the two characters – both explaining their side…

Remix Ideas

My first idea is to take a short story that I wrote and turn it into a Twitter thread. A twitter thread is when someone posts a series of tweets that tell a story. I do not have a twitter myself, but I see these crazy threads all the time posted on Instagram. They seem…

5: The NRA and Parks and Rec – The GIF Battle

Screen Shot of NRA Twitter Post using Parks and Rec GIF of Leslie Knope saying "Thank you"

I was scrolling though my FaceBook feed  one day when an article caught my eye. It was a Buzzfeed article titled: “”Parks and Rec” Stars Slammed NRA for Using a Leslie Knope GIF.” I love the show “Parks and Rec”, and wanted to see what this was all about, so I clicked on the link….

4: Twitter Poetry

For my genre profile project, I decided to focus on the contemporary craze of Twitter poetry. Twitter poetry is a subgenre of digital poetry (much like what Molly Aiudi talks about in her post about hypertext poetry) as well as a subgenre of a rising form of writing known as Twitterature. Twitter poetry focuses on…