Exquisite Corpse 2.0: qualitative analysis of a community-based fiction project

Authors:
Peter Likarish;Jon Winet
Affiliations:
Drew University, Madison, NJ;University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA
Venue:
Proceedings of the Designing Interactive Systems Conference
Year:
2012

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Abstract

This paper describes the outcome of a public art project exploring collaborative, community-based authorship of a work of fiction with contributions transmitted over the Twitter social network. Between July 15th, 2011 and July 17th, 71 authors, 8 invited and the rest voluntary members of the community, collaborated over Twitter, tweeting a "novel" 140 characters at a time. Dubbed "Novel Iowa City," the project was displayed to the public during the Iowa City Book Festival attended by thousands. This paper presents a qualitative analysis of the product of this process, reflecting on the challenges community-based authorship imposes on the writing of fiction and suggests best practices for future collaborative fiction projects.