Embracing the Digital – Is there a Cost?
Location
77 Salamanca Place
Hobart, Tasmania, 7000
Event Date
- From 23rd March 2013
- To 23rd March 2013
Entry Fee
- Adult $20.00
- Concession $18.00
Part of the Tasmanian Writers Festival: Shock of the Now Weekend
Chair:
Anne Summers (Sydney)
Panel:
Damon Young (Melbourne),
Rebecca Fitzgibbon (Hobart),
Matthew Lamb (Kettering),
Tony Birch (Melbourne)
Everyone’s a writer now, and technology has opened the world so that anyone can publish (at length). At the same time readers are time-poor and growing accustomed to consuming information in shorter formats – tweet, text, status updates. How have digital technology and globalism affected writers and writing? What now for the novel?