TY  - BOOK
AU  - Lonergan,Patrick
TI  - Theatre and social media
T2  - Macmillan education
SN  - 9781137463708 (paperback)
AV  - PN1590.S65 L66 2016
U1  - 792 23
PY  - 2016///
CY  - London, New York, NY
PB  - Palgrave Macmillan
KW  - Social media in the theater
KW  - Theater and social media
KW  - COMPUTERS / Digital Media / General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - COMPUTERS / Social Aspects / General
KW  - PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / General
N1  - P.B; Includes bibliographical references and index; Machine generated contents note: Introduction -- SOCIAL MEDIA AND PERFORMANCE. The Pre-Histories of Social Media -- Computers and Theatre -- Social Media as Performance Space: the 2009 Iranian "Rooftop Poems" -- Defining Social Media -- SOCIAL MEDIA IN THEATRE. Precursors: Patrick Marber's Closer, 1997 -- Social Media in Theatre: Thematic Approaches -- Social Media in Theatre: Formal Innovations -- PERFORMING AUTHORSHIP, PERFORMING CONSUMERS. Once: the musical on stage and online -- CONCLUSIONS
N2  - "Social media has become an increasingly prevalent aspect of our lives, used daily by many people. In this timely study, Patrick Lonergan examines the relationship between social media and theatre. He argues that social media is itself a performance space, analysing how it's used by both theatres and audiences and also in connection with each other"--
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