SMS Weblogs / Textually / 2003 / 05 / 17

SMS Social commentary fly in China

According to an interesting article in Asia Media, following the outbreak of SARS, a terse genre of social commentary has evolved to fit the compact new medium of text messagaing. "As well as parodies of popular songs, the SMS repertoire includes irreverent rewrites of communist ideological slogans and literary works by revolutionary leaders, suggesting widespead cynicism about the country's rulers". [Sarsies.gif found on Jeff Jarvis' BuzzMachine]

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