Editing Research/new digital reading experiences (section)

== CONTENT / DESIGN / TECHNOLOGY ==

In the second part of our research, we followed the same research structure we used for the first part, by addressing the same three main aspects of making public and the relations between them: The ''content'', the ''text design'' and the ''technology''. We aimed, again, for a long-read text, its design, relevant behavior of both text and the typography, and technologies to support that.

The main change was focusing on designing ''immersive'' solutions: creating a reading experience that will follow social media design elements and will include, next to digital text appearances, sound as well, specifically text spoken and written at the same time.

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=== CONTENT  ===

At first, we were looking to follow our initial guidelines of using short, non-linear texts. We considered short stories such as Kurt Vonnegut, ‘[https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2009-oct-18-ca-kurt-vonnegut18-story.html Look at the Birdie]’, Spoken Word/ [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t87T8R4L_po Poetry Slam] pieces that has rhythm, sound and hierarchy as part of their natural structure and local stories from a Rotterdam-based writers' group ‘[https://sarmadmagazine.com/about-fiction-writing-club-2 Sarmad Fiction Writing Club]’.

Eventually, we decided to challenge the new format, by trying to juxtapose a classic novel with &quot;TikTok” visualisation. The chosen text for this part of the research was ‘[https://msyou596211022.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/ocr-100-years-of-solitude-1-101.pdf 100 Years of Solitude]’, a 1967 Nobel Prize winner novel by Gabriel García Márquez. For our prototype, we used the opening paragraph.

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