STORIES OF BLOGS, E-BOOKS AND TIME: SLOWDOWN, PARTICIPATION AND RESISTANCE IN WU MING'S GIAP AND L'ARCHIVIO E LA STRADA.

This paper analyses the relationship between Wu Ming's blog Giap and the e-book Giap: L'archivio e la strada, where the writing collective gathered a selection of blog posts published between 2010 and 2012. Focusing on the temporal dimension of on-line and offline reading practices, this paper demon...

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Publicado en:Quaderni d'italianistica Vol. 39; no. 2; pp. 111 - 138
Autor principal: SAPORITO, PAOLO
Formato: Literary Criticism
Publicado: Iter Canada 2018
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