Meanland: Reading Without Privacy

Today, we’re all reading and writing more than ever, on text messages, on Twitter and on Facebook. But has social networking broken down the distinction between our public and our private lives? What are the rules for writing in forms that are so intimate and entirely open? Do we Tweet as ourselves or as representatives of our employers? And is new media helping us work differently or just work harder?

This event is in partnership with Meanland.

Presenters

Sophie Cunningham

Sophie Cunningham is the author of two novels, Geography and Bird, published in 2008 and she’s also writing a book about Melbourne for the University of NSW Press.

Jeff Sparrow

Jeff Sparrow is the editor of the literary journal Overland.

Alison Croggon

Alison Croggon is a Melbourne theatre critic, novelist, blogger and poet. She was named “a must-read critic” by the Guardian, along with Pauline Kael, Susan Sontag and James Wood.

Jonathan Green

Jonathan Green is editor of ABC’s The Drum.