Introduction to Electronic Literature - User contributions [en]

Incorporate

2017-11-30T09:20:30Z

Fridaysreign:

[[File:donaldthefool.png|200px|thumb|right|funny how the man who claims everything is fake news is the most fake.]]

Given the accessibility of the internet in present time, it’s become quite easy to share one’s opinion and have a lot of people acknowledge it. And even more so when it comes to ignorant remarks—everyone’s always had them but now there’s a way to reach even more people with it. For my final project, I had two ideas: I was considering taking publicly-noted statements that have in one way or another caused some form of impact on a social media and then show the many reactions. In some cases, this has been simply memes while in others there have been whole public statements made as a result, given that sometimes it’s not enough to just mock something with a poor image. This incorporation of responses will allow for a true, full picture of where the issue lies and whether the statement is accepted or not. In any case, I’m still not certain about how I’ll achieve this project. I was considering using a book (Lulu) as my format simply because I like the idea of it being printed out, but I’m also considering a social media platform that allows for threads (such as Twitter). Then, my second idea was something similar. I was just going to take states that Donald Trump has said and around each statement (usually a tweet) make a collage of all the sources that prove that he’s a dirty liar. And because he’s such a pathological liar, I know for sure there’s endless ways to go about this and a lot of information I could gather. The collage would, much like the other option, be taken from articles, social medias, memes, and other sources. The reason I was considering this one was because: 1) he’s always lying 2) it’s frustrating that Twitter won’t remove him and no amount of proving him wrong makes him shut up 3) it’s highly interesting to see how the president of the United States can blatantly lie when one quick google search can prove that it is just that—a lie 4) It’s highly intriguing to see how the world reacts to such an uncommon occurrence, particularly within the internet with the resources/technology provided and 4) I hate him. In any case, I’d probably do it in book format for sure and call it something like “Big Fat Liar: Presidential Edition”. Or maybe something else. My attached image is just a quick screenshot of evidence that he lies i just screenshot up to the first three and there's hundreds more but I think this brings the point home already. It took a few seconds to find... Ugh, he's so embarrassing.

Incorporate

2017-11-30T09:18:13Z

Fridaysreign:

[[File:donaldthefool.png|200px|thumb|right|funny how the man who claims everything is fake news is the most fake.]]

Given the accessibility of the internet in present time, it’s become quite easy to share one’s opinion and have a lot of people acknowledge it. And even more so when it comes to ignorant remarks—everyone’s always had them but now there’s a way to reach even more people with it. For my final project, I had two ideas: I was considering taking inflammatory statements that have in one way or another caused some form of impact on a social media and then show the many reactions. In some cases, this has been simply memes while in others there have been whole public statements made as a result, given that sometimes it’s not enough to just mock something with a poor image. In any case, I’m still not certain about how I’ll achieve this project. I was considering using a book (Lulu) as my format simply because I like the idea of it being printed out, but I’m also considering a social media platform that allows for threads (such as Twitter). Then, my second idea was something similar. I was just going to take states that Donald Trump has said and around each statement (usually a tweet) make a collage of all the sources that prove that he’s a dirty liar. And because he’s such a pathological liar, I know for sure there’s endless ways to go about this and a lot of information I could gather. The collage would, much like the other option, be taken from articles, social medias, memes, and other sources. The reason I was considering this one was because: 1) he’s always lying 2) it’s frustrating that Twitter won’t remove him and no amount of proving him wrong makes him shut up 3) it’s highly interesting to see how the president of the United States can blatantly lie when one quick google search can prove that it is just that—a lie 4) It’s highly intriguing to see how the world reacts to such an uncommon occurrence, particularly within the internet with the resources/technology provided and 4) I hate him. In any case, I’d probably do it in book format for sure and call it something like “Big Fat Liar: Presidential Edition”. Or maybe something else. My attached image is just a quick screenshot of evidence that he lies i just screenshot up to the first three and there's hundreds more but I think this brings the point home already. It took a few seconds to find... Ugh, he's so embarrassing.

Incorporate

2017-11-30T09:17:18Z

Fridaysreign: Created page with "alt text Given the accessibility of the internet in present time, it’s become quite easy to share one’s opinion and have a l..."

[[File:donaldthefool.png|200px|thumb|right|alt text]]

Given the accessibility of the internet in present time, it’s become quite easy to share one’s opinion and have a lot of people acknowledge it. And even more so when it comes to ignorant remarks—everyone’s always had them but now there’s a way to reach even more people with it. For my final project, I had two ideas: I was considering taking inflammatory statements that have in one way or another caused some form of impact on a social media and then show the many reactions. In some cases, this has been simply memes while in others there have been whole public statements made as a result, given that sometimes it’s not enough to just mock something with a poor image. In any case, I’m still not certain about how I’ll achieve this project. I was considering using a book (Lulu) as my format simply because I like the idea of it being printed out, but I’m also considering a social media platform that allows for threads (such as Twitter). Then, my second idea was something similar. I was just going to take states that Donald Trump has said and around each statement (usually a tweet) make a collage of all the sources that prove that he’s a dirty liar. And because he’s such a pathological liar, I know for sure there’s endless ways to go about this and a lot of information I could gather. The collage would, much like the other option, be taken from articles, social medias, memes, and other sources. The reason I was considering this one was because: 1) he’s always lying 2) it’s frustrating that Twitter won’t remove him and no amount of proving him wrong makes him shut up 3) it’s highly interesting to see how the president of the United States can blatantly lie when one quick google search can prove that it is just that—a lie 4) It’s highly intriguing to see how the world reacts to such an uncommon occurrence, particularly within the internet with the resources/technology provided and 4) I hate him. In any case, I’d probably do it in book format for sure and call it something like “Big Fat Liar: Presidential Edition”. Or maybe something else. My attached image is just a quick screenshot of evidence that he lies i just screenshot up to the first three and there's hundreds more but I think this brings the point home already. It took a few seconds to find... Ugh, he's so embarrassing.

File:Donaldthefool.png

2017-11-30T09:14:56Z

Fridaysreign:

Platforms

2017-11-30T08:58:21Z

Fridaysreign:

I emailed Xanga to reactivate my old [["blog"]]. I believe I posted snippets of my exciting jr high school life on this account, so it will be hilarious and also embarrassing to look back on them. This might be a good place to start for my final project. I would like to [[incorporate]] my golden years somehow - hopefully, Xanga will be able to give me access. Apparently, I had "shutdown" my account quite some time ago! My posts must have been extremely embarrassing, even to myself, otherwise I am sure I would have kept it for fun.

Focused

2017-11-28T07:30:11Z

Fridaysreign: Created page with "a book. a book with images. a book with poor images. a book with poor images that don't make sense. a book with poor images that don't make sense unless one understands..."

a book.

a book with images.

a book with poor images.

a book with poor images that don't make sense.

a book with poor images that don't make sense unless one understands the obscure references.

a book with poor images that don't make sense unless one understands the obscure references because the wide accessibility of the internet has allowed for niche content to thrive and reach intended audiences, interestingly enough.

or perhaps a pdf.

a pdf with words.

a pdf with words from essays.

a pdf with words from essays that relate to the class.

a pdf with wreaded words from essays that relate to the class even if also possibly not.

a pdf with wreaded words from essays taken from the syllabus and deformed into something new entirely, much like we've done previously in class.

a game.

a video game.

a video game of moving images.

a video game of moving images that are actually words.

a video game of interactive gifs.

a video game of moving images that are actually words and together make a word, but are really neither.

a social media.

a social media account with a concept.

a conceptual social media account that is interesting.

a conceptual social media account that is interesting and a bot but also interesting because it follows a particularly fascinating pattern while also using the social media platform in an odd way.

a word.

a word document composed of words.

a word document composed of words that make an essay.

a boring essay on Microsoft Word, perhaps. If nothing else comes to mind.

yeah.

Interpreting

2017-11-28T07:03:49Z

Fridaysreign:

This past Thursday (October 26th, 2017) we did not have an in-class meeting, but instead chatted online about works we (my classmates and I) believe should be added to the syllabus. These include creative as well as critical works, which I think is important. I think this balance is important because while critical works set the foundation for understanding countless facets of electronic literature, creative works apply these concepts and allow us to view them in action. In the chat, we [[focused]] on creative works, such as videos and games. I had never seen these videos prior to engaging with my classmates, and it made interpreting these creative works much more exciting. This is because I was able to build my ideas or opinions off of my classmates' and vice versa. In other words, interpreting different works (such as creative works) becomes more insightful when your peers are also contributing their ideas on the matter. Turning reading and analyzing into a social activity is fascinating, and something that I had not deeply considered before taking this class. Overall, I am very satisfied with how Thursday's meeting went, and I would be happy to do the same activity or a similar activity in an upcoming class (whether that be in a real class meeting or on an online chat again).
[[File:Interpretation.jpeg|200px|thumb|right|do you read what i read? no, really, do you? are you sure?]]

Post-Digital Objects

2017-11-14T07:08:16Z

Fridaysreign:

ak [https://www.zazzle.com/personalized_skateboarding_deck-186104620587553361]
[[File:Skateboard.png]]

Ahh [http://www.cafepress.com/cp/customize/product2.aspx?from=CustomDesigner&number=161166709][[File:capture.jpg]]

Ultimate Sith Lord [https://www.zazzle.com/pd/spp/pt-zazzle_button?pd=145189715486365911&get_started_dialog=false&style=round_button&size=4.0&design.areas=%5Bround_button_4_front%5D&context=114948436752540819&view=113175413667360156&customize_it=true] [[File:BiPin.png]]

Gone Girls: A Chinese Social Media Calendar [https://www.zazzle.com/z/ohnkn?rf=238584585323274374]
[[File:Calendar.png]]

[http://www.cafepress.com/+gray_victorian_stripes_personalized_mini_button,1650185276]
TC- [[File:SL.png]]

B.L. [https://www.zazzle.com/pd/spp/pt-fuji_fleximagnet?pd=160253066305325380&get_started_dialog=false&style=3x4&design.areas=%5B3x4_front_vert%5D&context=114997964782531219&view=113340096181419361&customize_it=true]
[[File:Magnet.png]]

R.T. [http://www.cafepress.com/cp/customize/product.aspx?number=162336037]
[[File: Post-digital product.png]]

L.R.[http://www.cafepress.com/cp/viewcart.aspx?s=selfbuy&keepshopping=%2fselfbuy]
[[File: Shower-Curtain.jpg]]

K.U. [https://www.zazzle.com/pd/spp/pt-zazzle_keychain?dz=e2e516a1-3529-438d-a001-29e3aa13f2e5&side_name=front&style=round_keychain&size=2.25&design.areas=%5Bfront_horz%5D&context=114529070928263395&view=113908062333046724]
[[File: Keychain product.jpg]]

CC
[https://www.makestickers.com/design/171113155203-0t0lv0dxhff4go0lioz2hq1u?pgid=cb689947-8001-4c34-911b-8c1b96e80dd2]
<br/>
[[File: In_a_deserted_airport.jpg|400px]]

B.K.S. [http://www.cafepress.com/mf/111447537/postdigital-cage_mugs?productId=163153093]
[[File: Post-cage_mug.png]]

H.H.
[https://www.zazzle.com/pd/spp/pt-zazzle_keychain?dz=f855417b-6737-440b-9b5c-5f7941886d95&clone=true&pending=true&social=true&style=round_keychain&size=2.25&design.areas=%5Bfront_horz%5D&view=113191793730158827&utm_medium=Email&utm_source=ProductShareToSenderV2&utm_content=viewbutton-share_npepf]
[[File:unnamed.jpg]]

msl. [http://dss-edit.com/elit/wiki/index.php?title=2017.145]
[[File:notforeveryone.jpg]]

LM [https://www.zazzle.com/the_post_digital_walt_whitman_coffee_mug-168833273063555296] [[File:pdww.png|550px]]

S.K. [https://www.zazzle.com/z/oaepq?rf=238042114372788340] [[File:TheLibraryofBabel.jpg]]

L.Y. [https://www.zazzle.com/z/oakb2?rf=238853390982089085]
[[File:case.jpg]]

DK [https://www.zazzle.com/pd/spp/pt-chandlerscandles_pillarcandle?dz=d7826b32-7c86-4e31-9a24-9424798e2f6d&side_name=front&size=3x4&design.areas=%5Bchandlerscandles_pillarcandle_3x4_front%5D&context=114699858786462415&view=113019550034018106]
[[File:pdfsmell.png|300px]]

SS Praise Yerself Basic B Tee
[[File:PYTee.png]]
[https://www.zazzle.com/elit_praise_yerself_basic_b_tee-235003308015304718]

egk [https://www.zazzle.com/the_egg_iphone_8_plus_7_plus_case-179925456825542258]
[[File:TheEgg.png]]

H.A.
[https://www.zazzle.com/custom_12_x_12_canvas-192429994291513112]
[[File:belladonna.jpg]]

A.G.
[https://www.zazzle.com/pd/spp/pt-hamptontech_pingpongpaddle?pd=256908551209089994&get_started_dialog=false&backstyle=black&design.areas=%5Bhamptontech_pingpongpaddle_front%5D&context=114545480977447346&view=113486439360235037&customize_it=true]
[[File:Postdigital.png]]

B.L-S
[https://www.zazzle.com/z/oabhz]
[[File:pillow.png]]

H.A.
[https://www.zazzle.com/z/oaba0?rf=238069332498932093]
[[File:Magnet_ttgttpd.PNG]]

Fridaysreign: Created page with "Social media sites work so that the user can very easily change the narrative that they give to people in relation to their life. In this way, one's life can be quite boring,..."

Social media sites work so that the user can very easily change the narrative that they give to people in relation to their life. In this way, one's life can be quite boring, but what is perceived by the other users can be incredibly exciting and complex. In this very same way, art has a way of modifying pictures to make them interesting and amazing. Snap Art is when people take pictures and then use the editing tools on Snapchat in order to edit the picture into something quite intriguing. Much like social medias already do for people's lives, doing this changes the picture into something that it truly isn't, in real life. It's quite brilliant. This one's my favorite: [http://dbatsnap.com/a/11400615104Vh2F]

Creative

2017-10-31T05:32:55Z

Fridaysreign:

After reading through N. Katherine Hayles’ essay “Electronic Literature: What is it?,” I found her discussion on video games and their role in interactive fiction to be somewhat lacking in regards to their creative potential for a narrative. If the essay was older, I would feel more lenient in this aspect, but since it was published in 2007, there would be a wide variety of games out there that played with the narrative form in more ways than what Hayles details. For example, she never mentions visual novels, which are a genre of video games that very much function similarly to more traditional literary forms. In addition, while she mentions “visual displays, graphics, animations, and clever modifications of traditional literary devices” in her essay for what video games add to literature, she never addresses how video games, and interactive fiction by extension, allow for the player to change the [[narrative]] for themselves and craft an ending based on their own choices throughout the story and gameplay presented (Hayles). Games can allow for multiple endings and thus for people to shape the narrative on their own. In this way, games have the potential to creatively play with their narrative and not just follow a specific streamlined plot like one would have to in other creative mediums, like in a movie, TV show, or novel. Because of this omission, I feel that Hayles does a disservice in representing how, through video games, electronic literature can further break the conventions of how typical narrative operates and bring even more options to the literary landscape as a whole.

As a last thought, I will suggest some video games here that involve choices and/or multiple endings like I have discussed here! My suggestions would be Undertale, Silent Hill & Silent Hill 2, Dragon Age: Origins, The Stanley Parable, the Zero Escape Series, NieR & NieR Automata, Until Dawn, etc. I would list more, but there's way too many. Also, since I briefly mentioned them, my recommended visual novel series would be the Zero Escape, Danganronpa, and Ace Attorney series. Anyway, thanks for reading!
~ Ultimate Sith Lord

==See also==
*[[critical]]
*[[programming]]

Creative

2017-10-31T05:31:22Z

Fridaysreign:

After reading through N. Katherine Hayles’ essay “Electronic Literature: What is it?,” I found her discussion on video games and their role in interactive fiction to be somewhat lacking in regards to their creative potential for a narrative. If the essay was older, I would feel more lenient in this aspect, but since it was published in 2007, there would be a wide variety of games out there that played with the narrative form in more ways than what Hayles details. For example, she never mentions visual novels, which are a genre of video games that very much function similarly to more traditional literary forms. In addition, while she mentions “visual displays, graphics, animations, and clever modifications of traditional literary devices” in her essay for what video games add to literature, she never addresses how video games, and interactive fiction by extension, allow for the player to change the narrative for themselves and craft an ending based on their own choices throughout the [[story]] and gameplay presented (Hayles). Games can allow for multiple endings and thus for people to shape the narrative on their own. In this way, games have the potential to creatively play with their narrative and not just follow a specific streamlined plot like one would have to in other creative mediums, like in a movie, TV show, or novel. Because of this omission, I feel that Hayles does a disservice in representing how, through video games, electronic literature can further break the conventions of how typical narrative operates and bring even more options to the literary landscape as a whole.

As a last thought, I will suggest some video games here that involve choices and/or multiple endings like I have discussed here! My suggestions would be Undertale, Silent Hill & Silent Hill 2, Dragon Age: Origins, The Stanley Parable, the Zero Escape Series, NieR & NieR Automata, Until Dawn, etc. I would list more, but there's way too many. Also, since I briefly mentioned them, my recommended visual novel series would be the Zero Escape, Danganronpa, and Ace Attorney series. Anyway, thanks for reading!
~ Ultimate Sith Lord

==See also==
*[[critical]]
*[[programming]]

Alt Syllabus

2017-10-26T04:55:11Z

Fridaysreign:

'''ALT INTRO TO E-LIT SYLLABUS'''

UCLA 2017
ENGL 116B

Collectively compiled & appended to the "official" syllabus, 10.26.17.

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LCS ~ Unit: The Role of Social Media in Preserving Poetry

'''Critical Readings:''' Digital Poets: Can Social Media Save Poetry (Natalie Zfat) [[https://iq.intel.com/digital-poets-can-social-media-save-poetry/]]; Hello 'Poetry' [[https://hellopoetry.com/words/socialmedia/]]

'''Creative Works:''' Top 10 Poetic Tweets (LW Lundquist) [[http://www.tweetspeakpoetry.com/2015/11/19/twitter-poems-top-10-poetic-tweets-4/]]; Instagram: @poemsporn_ [[https://www.instagram.com/poemsporn_/?hl=en]]

LR - Textualities and Interactive Fiction
Critical Readings : Nick Montfort "Riddle Machines: The History and Nature of Interactive Fiction" [[http://digitalhumanities.org/companion/view?docId=blackwell/9781405148641/9781405148641.xml&chunk.id=ss1-5-8&toc.id=0&brand=9781405148641_brand]]

Creative Works : Stevens & Montfort [[https://nickm.com/poems/]] Personal Fav: Field of Dreams

QG ~ Writing in Electronic Age

'''Critical Readings:''' The End of Books (Robert Coover) [[http://www.nytimes.com/books/98/09/27/specials/coover-end.html]]

'''Creative Works:''' Screen (Noah Wardrip-Fruin, Josh Carroll, Robert Coover, et. al.) [[http://collection.eliterature.org/2/works/wardrip-fruin_screen.html]]

a.k. – interactive fiction
'''Critical Readings:''' Toward a Theory of Interactive Fiction (Nick Monfort) [[http://nickm.com/if/toward.html]]

'''Creative Works:''' Photopia by Adam Cadre (1998) ( [[http://adamcadre.ac/if/photopia.html]]

.jk. – Consequences of Disappearing Electronic vs. Print Literature

'''Critical Readings:''' One + One = Zero – Vanishing Text in Electronic Literature (Marjorie C. Luesebrink) [[https://conference.eliterature.org/sites/default/files/papers/OnePlusOneEqualsZero_0.docx]]
Vanishing Letters in Text-based Digital Installations (Janez Strehovec) [[http://firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/6811/5892]]

'''Creative Work:''' Share a secret – One Time [[https://onetimesecret.com/]]

I.B. - Interactive Fiction

'''Critical Work:''' Hyperrhiz: New Media Cultures (JENNIFER S. ROUDABUSH) [[http://hyperrhiz.io/hyperrhiz10/special-feature-e-lit-reviews/electronic-literature-showcase-at-the-library-of-congress.html]]

'''Creative Works:''' The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Douglas Adams and Steve Meretzky) [[http://textadventures.co.uk/games/view/3cbedqimquselmanehhzxg/the-hitchhikers-guide-to-the-galaxy]]

TC- Fan Fiction
'''Critical Readings:''' Fan fiction, fandoms, and literature: or, why it’s time to pay attention to fan fiction (Christina Yatrakis) [[http://via.library.depaul.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1147&context=etd]]

'''Creative Work:''' HEATHENS (--LJ--) [[https://www.asianfanfics.com/story/view/1156476/heathens-markjin]]

JR - Remediation
"Critical Reading:" Emoji Portrait Art [[https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/26/style/emoji-portraits-yung-jake.html]]
"Creative Work" Emoji Ink [[http://emoji.ink]]

SG - Serial Narrative through Social Media
'''Critical Reading''': Seriality and Storytelling in Social Media (Ruth Page) [https://muse.jhu.edu/article/507669/pdf]

'''Creative Works''': Black Box (Jennifer Egan) [https://storify.com/cbcbooks/jennifer-egan-s-black-box] (Tweet Collection), [http://stuyww.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/0/6/14065772/black_box_--_jennifer_egan.pdf] (PDF Format)
Dear David (Adam Ellis) [https://storify.com/moby_dickhead/dear-david] (Tweet Collection), [https://twitter.com/moby_dickhead?lang=en] (Actual Twitter Account)

RT - Twitter Fiction

'''Critical Readings:''' The Great American Twitter Novel [https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/great-american-twitter-novel]
Twitter Fiction: Social Networking and Microfiction in 140 Characters [http://www.tesl-ej.org/wordpress/issues/volume13/ej52/ej52int/?iframe=true&width=80%&height=80%]
Neil Gaiman sets Twitter ablaze with fan collaboration [https://www.pcworld.com/article/2030776/neil-gaiman-sets-twitter-ablaze-with-fan-collaboration.html]
Neil Gaiman + Twitter = Interactive Storytelling [http://mashable.com/2009/10/13/neil-gaiman-twitter-audiobook/#sf42aDR8bSqN]

'''Creative Works:''' THE RIGHT SORT from Sceptre Books on Twitter [https://twitter.com/SceptreBooks/timelines/488586138048004096]
Twitter fiction: 21 authors try their hand at 140-character novels [https://www.theguardian.com/books/2012/oct/12/twitter-fiction-140-character-novels]
Hearts, Keys and Puppetry by Neil Gaiman and the Twitterverse [https://www.audible.com/pd/Sci-Fi-Fantasy/Hearts-Keys-and-Puppetry-Audiobook/B0037BODY8?ref_=a_search_c4_1_1_srTtl&qid=1508991209&sr=1-1]
13 Beautiful Pieces of Twitter Fiction Remind Us How Powerful Reading Can Be [https://mic.com/articles/84883/13-beautiful-pieces-of-twitter-fiction-remind-us-how-powerful-reading-can-be#.BuprgLPLI]

BKS - Digital Academia

'''Critical Reading:''' Living in a Digital World: Rethinking Peer Review, Collaboration, and Open Access by Shiela Cavangh [http://journalofdigitalhumanities.org/1-4/living-in-a-digital-world-by-sheila-cavanagh/]

'''Creative Work''': The Knotted Line [http://knottedline.com/]

B.L. - The Transformation of ELit: Different Forms on Social Media

'''Critical Readings:''' Towards a History of Electronic Literature [http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2619&context=clcweb]
Digital poet Jason Nelson urges others to forge new frontiers in electronic literature [http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-01-02/digital-poet-urges-authors-to-turn-over-new-leaf/5182306]
Has Twitter given birth to a new literary genre? [https://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2014/jan/10/twitter-birth-new-literary-genre]

'''Creative Work''': InstagramELiterature [https://instagrameliterature.wordpress.com/]
Real Human Praise [http://directory.eliterature.org/individual-work/4714]

LM - Snapchat

'''Critical Readings:''' The Oral Paradigm and Snapchat (Oren Soffer) [http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/2056305116666306?rss=1]

'''Creative Works:''' Snap Art (Dasha Battelle) [http://dbatsnap.com/]

HA - Typography/Fonts

'''Critical Readings:''' “Type:Rider” Is The Ultimate Video Game About Typography [https://www.fastcodesign.com/3019584/typerider-is-the-ultimate-video-game-about-typography]

'''Creative Works:''' Type Rider | Part 1 | Let's Play Gameplay Walkthrough Playthrough [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVGK31j9ino]

2017-10-03T21:56:12Z

Fridaysreign:

ENG 116B: Introduction to Electronic Literature

What is not electronic literature today? Rather than introduce electronic literature or “e-lit” as a [[distinct]] literary category, this course wonders if it’s still possible to consider literature beyond the electronic circuits that characterize the networked present. The [[creation]] and study of literature today is facilitated by a range of digital formats and networked consoles, each of which introduce new practices of production, circulation, reception, and reading. Alongside these transformations, we’ll explore a range of new literary genres inhabiting, for example, computer scripts, image macros, flash movies, social media, bandcamp releases, [[interactive]] applications, and print on demand books. Thinking through the present, this introduction examines the history and future of literature through the everyday experience of computers and electronic devices. From the history of digital poetics to recent internet publications, we’ll track the development of literature under the influence of computation up to works published in the present, as they emerge throughout the quarter. In lockstep, the course considers the category of “electronic literature” as a way to think about historical works remediated to the internet, in a wide range of (post-)digital formats. The course requires short weekly responses in an open format, as well as a mid-term and final assignment, which may be critical or creative in form, developed in conversation with the instructor. No previous experience in programming, [[poetry]], or literature is required.