트위터와 새로운 문자소통의 가능성. 발터 벤야민의 "이야기 erzahlung" 개념을 중심으로 = Twitter and the Possibility of New Communication with Focus on "Strory" of Walter Benjamins

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This paper aims to think about Twitter as a way of new communication by relying on Walter Benjamin`s concept of "Story (erzahlung)." In the oral tradition, stories are based on the interrelationship between the speaker and the audience, who are present in the same place at the same time. They share experiences both by telling and by hearing of the story. The story is created not only with the speaker`s own experience, but also with others` experiences that he has heard. Hence, the stories shared in this way make it possible for experiences to be circulated through different times and in different places, providing different audiences with useful advice for life. Because the story originated from real life and shared among present individuals, it differs from the novel, which is consequences of the printing technology. One condition of books is characterized by the temporal and spatial distance between the writer and the reader, and such distance may reflect the incommensurability of experiences that modern subjects undergo. Story also differs from information, in that unlike stories, it barely contextualizes the trail of the personality. Communication via Twitter is conducted with writing, but the technology of real-time communication enables the verbalization of writing, which in turn enforces the communal solidarity of users. The one-sideness and uncertainty of written communication are resolved through the follower structure. Twitter functions today as an important media of social and political changes, because it as a new communication method actualizes the communal potentiality that story has in the oral tradition, about which Benjamin offers discerning conceptual insights.