Adapting from the Internet: Cultural adaptation in Teh Internet is Serious Business. (1st May 2016)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Nicholas, Tom
• Is Part Of: Journal of art writing by students. Volume 2:Number 1(2016)
• Page Start: 35
• Page End: 42
• Publication Date: 2016-05-01
• Subjects: Arts -- Research -- Periodicals; Art in universities and colleges -- Periodicals; Arts -- Periodicals; Academic writing -- Periodicals; Graduate work -- Periodicals; 707
• DOI: 10.1386/jaws.2.1.35_1
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 2055-2823

Abstract

This article argues that the Internet today constitutes a social and cultural space, holding within it a culture distinct from that of the physical world with its own customs, morals and beliefs. Taking as a case study Tim Price's Teh [sic] Internet is Serious Business, which premiered at the Royal Court Theatre in September 2014, it will use Patrice Pavis' 'hour-glass' model to carry out a textual analysis of this adaptation of the factual story of the formation of online activist groups Anonymous and LulzSec for presentation within the theatrical form of contemporary Britain, a narrative which has become one of Internet Culture's major cultural myths.