Alison Norrington

Alison Norrington
Writer/New Media/PhD, Alison Norrington

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Bestselling chick-lit novelist and practice-based PhD researcher, Alison is writing one of the first romcom ‘digi novels’- a print, web, gps and gaming story that interconnects whilst also standing alone, which enhances and drives the printed book, with a view to establishing a working business model to revolutionise digital publishing. With many commercial mentors and PhD advisors across the entertainment and publishing industries she is in her 2nd year of PhD research at the Institute of Creative Technologies (http://www.ioct.dmu.ac.uk) at De Montfort University, Leicester, UK.

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2:50pm Tuesday, 02/12/2008
Fictional Blogging: Can Web 2.0 Translate to Publishing 2.0?
Blogging, General Shubert/Uris
Alison Norrington (Alison Norrington)
Is the blog as a delivery form the first tentative step in digitizing narratives and could new technology outstrip print-based publishing? Read more.

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