Title: The Book in the Era of Facebook and Twitter
Abstract: We live in an era where the standard of communications is the 140character Tweet.This is creating a culture of superficiality where celebrity replaces well-earned fame, and where opinion is everything.Truth is treated as subjective statement, and the new media dominate the public discourse.Yet Books remain plentiful, and there is an ever increasing number printed and sold every year.But what will the book bring to a generation of youngsters who have grown up surrounded by the new media and whose social relations are much more defined by Facebook than by neighbourhood, school or family?