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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Me, squeezed in a paragraph

I am a philologist fascinated by the metamorphoses of text on the Web, curious about the ways the Semantic Web unfolds. Currently I am a PhD student at the Sofia University, exploring how content writing is changing, changing us and the way we think, write and live. Read more about me

My Brave New Text

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.

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.

Wandering Words

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I am currently reading:

Artificial Unintelligence

Writing adventures

  • Linking up information to make the world a better knowledge space: A Dialogue with Ian Piper March 11, 2021
  • Our Private and Public Lives: An Allegory of Our Connection With Data December 27, 2020
  • The Data-Centric Future Is Here, It Is Just Not Evenly Distributed: A Dialogue with Alan Morrison November 12, 2020
  • Knock, Knock, Web Weaver… October 26, 2020
  • Seeing Enterprise Content as Semantic Capital September 8, 2020
  • At the interstice of code, culture, and change: A dialogue with Anni Rowland-Campbell August 13, 2020
  • Music, Taxonomies and What Defines a Sandwich: A Dialogue With Bob Kasenchak June 6, 2020
  • The Dialogue is the content May 22, 2020
  • The Web of People and Its Dialogic Potential: A Dialogue with prof. Michael Kent January 12, 2020
  • 4 Web Writing Mistakes To Avoid (and How I Didn’t) December 6, 2019
  • The corporate citizen learns to write on the Web: Blogging as a marketing communications tool July 18, 2019
  • Flying People, Machines and Cities (Newsletter, May 2019) May 20, 2019
  • Raw Notes from Webit Festival 2019 May 20, 2019
  • Digital Text as a Phenomenon of Culture May 19, 2019
  • CV data as Linked Data? April 2, 2019
  • A Call to Intergalactic Adventure (Newsletter, April 2019) April 1, 2019
  • For the Love of the Web March 29, 2019
  • Per aspera ad astra (Newsletter, March 2019) March 2, 2019
  • Surfing the Web Layer of Things, Technology and Thoughts: A Dialogue with Ruben Verborgh February 14, 2019
  • An Ecology of Digital Being of Sorts January 22, 2019

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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My series of talks: The Intertextual Animal

Read more at: The Intertextual Animal Video Series

Web Scriptorium: Let’s talk about text on the Web

Web Scriptorium (a corporate web writing training) is live: https://t.co/bzVLSmHkQW. Join me, @DavidAmerland, @mrcruce and @cyberandy (or the “switching-codes collective” as I like to call us :) for a journey across the lands of text, data and meaningful communication on the Web. pic.twitter.com/7WvX9xxnHM

— Teodora Petkova (@TheodoraPetkova) November 1, 2019

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