Teodora Petkova

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The Interconnectedness within

Intertextuality is a term coined in 1966 referring to texts being shaped and influenced by other texts. The way I see it, this concept reaches as far as our digital state of existence today.

Everything is connected. Every text, every thread in a conversation (be it direct or indirect, through references) starts and ends in and with another text or thread. We are never-ending stories reaching out to find possible continuations.

I find the analogy between humans and texts very useful as a means for understanding our networked life. And by using the concept of text I refer to any symbolic representation of shared meaning.

For so long texts have been our main source and at the same time tool for passing on meaning and insights through time and space. Today this vehicle of traditions is being entirely logged, archived and digitized, creating a huge corpus of texts that are available to search through, enjoy, compare and most importantly enrich with new meanings and relationships.

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Digital Text as a Phenomenon of Culture

May 19, 2019 by Teodora Petkova

These are my slides from the International Forum of the Faculty of Slavic Studies at the Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski” 2019 where I talked about how I saw digital text. What makes digital text different? I. Text-specific differences Hypertext Ease of publishing, distribution, access (search/retrieval) Non-linearity, fragmentation Potentially all kinds of containers (DNA included)Continue Weaving

CV data as Linked Data?

April 2, 2019 by Teodora Petkova

  Digital space is actual space, the space in which we live. A space is a set of relationships between objects; in our contemporary society, space is a hybridization of connected and non-connected objects that are structured by writing. Marcello Vitali-Rosati, On Editorialization: Structuring Space and Authority in the Digital Age Just yesterday I finishedContinue Weaving

The Intertextual Animal [Book Excerpt]

September 30, 2018 by Teodora Petkova

Consider this. I am the sum of my readings, my immediate surroundings and my experiences. I am also what I write and read on the Web. I constantly transverse analog and digital realms, textual and non-textual fabrics. Such dynamics helps me enrich my life and the Web with an expanded field of relationships where newlyContinue Weaving

Linked Data and the Good Text [Book Excerpt]

June 23, 2018 by Teodora Petkova

In his “Lecture on Ethics”, Wittgenstein writes that the good way can only be conceived within the context of its goal. The direction Wittgenstein gives is solid – good is what works, what serves a certain purpose. Leveraging this Wittgenstein’s proposition, I argue that the good text on the Web is the connected text. AndContinue Weaving

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Welcome, fellow web explorer!

I am a philologist fascinated by the metamorphoses of text on the Web and curious about the ways the Semantic Web unfolds. I work as a content writer based in Sofia. For project inquiries or consulting, please email me at toshko.afrikanski@gmail.com. You can also
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My Brave New Text

Being Dialogic (2022)

In Being Dialogic I explain why the key to successful content on the Web is being dialogic, sharing my PhD research and professional practice related to marketing communication on the Web and its dialogic orientation. The book aim is to allow for broader perspectives on the processes of creating web content which take into account the idea of marketing as managing knowledge and of content writing as creating digital object, enriched with metadata.

The Brave New Text (2017)

The Brave New Text  is a book about web writing and how it transforms the way we communicate, exchange, experience and explore thoughts, ideas, goods. It is a kaleidoscope of perspectives through which you will see texts on the web, as new forms of textuality, as webs themselves, as processes that change us, word by word, link by link.

The Brave New Text consists of essays on writing for the Semantic Web as well as practical tips for creating connected and connecting texts.

The book’s website is The Brave New Text  and it features excerpts from the book together with thoughts and advice on web writing to help you weave your own web of words on the Web of People. Use it for inspiration, guidance and practical advice.

My Tiny Companion to Weaving Texts on the Web

This is a Web Writing guide to help you pave your own road to approaching web writing and making the best of it as a tool for growth, connections and more business.

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Kaleidoscope of Inspiration

  • MIT Technology review
  • Harvard Business Review
  • Think with Google
  • The TED-Ed project
  • Brain Pickings

Curious minds I follow

  • David Amerland’s website
  • Gideon Rosenblatt’s website
  • Aaron Bradley’s The Graph Lounge
  • Bill Slawski’s Blog

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