Week 4 Blog Post

I think that the takeaway from this week’s readings is that seriality, especially on twitter, can be used in a very nuanced way, despite twitter’s restrictions. I really liked how the Andersen article compared serial twitter posts to victorian book installments because that comparison made me think about serial twitter posts as works of literature, instead of just social media posts. After I read the articles and reflected on them, I thought that it was interesting how society has changed to demand that books be released at one time, yet society still finds the seriality of twitter interesting. I’m not really sure why that is, but it makes me think of how maybe society has become increasingly more inpatient, especially in the time of instant streaming and 24 hour news coverage. I see that impatience in my own life when I watch a series on Netflix or Hulu. Often, I need to binge the show instead of periodically watching it and moving through it slowly.