Verkkoproosa : tutkimus dialogisesta kirjoittamisesta

Abstract

This theoretical work scrutinizes poetical aspects of writing in the web (blogs, chat, forums). The practice of writing called web prose use the elements of speech and textualize it. This brings web prose near the tradition of literature, not as art, but as style of prose writing. By using H-G Gadamer`s hermeneutics, philosophy of conversation and poetics, I ask how the tradition of writing comes in to the web.

Web is scrutinized from the aspects of poetics, dialogue and publicity. The work examines language and genre from the approach of the writing studies. Dialoque has an important function also in the web prose, when writing is getting closer to conversation. At last part I ask what characterise writing as public action. Behind this question is the tradition of ‘public writer’. Web prose can be seen a strategy of using private voice made public.

Keywords: creative writing, social web, literature, online-dialoque, poetics, web rhetorics and hermeneutics.