Hashtags, Algorithmic Compression, and Henry James's Late Style Academic Article

abstract

• This essay draws parallels between the intellectual labor of the Jamesian narrator and that of social media user, both of whom use similar techniques to arrange and interpret data streams (consciousness, expression, dialogue, action, text). I argue that Jamess social politics of conversation is not only suited to making digital interlocutors critically aware of the digital messages surrounding them but also to alerting literature scholars to the narrative possibilities of social media. By reading Jamesian style as a formal analogue of digital utterances, we can help students understand their communicative practicesand help us understand them as well.

authors

• Ross, Shawna

published proceedings

• The Henry James Review

altmetric score

• 3

author list (cited authors)

• Ross, S.

citation count

• 1

complete list of authors

• Ross, Shawna

publication date

• January 2015

publisher

• Johns Hopkins University Press  Publisher

published in

• The Henry James Review  Journal

keywords

• Compression
• Henry James
• Literary Style
• Social Media
• Sound Studies
• Twitter

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1353/hjr.2015.0005

URI

• https://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/160217

start page

• 24

end page

• 44

volume

• 36

issue

• 1