Introduction to Electronic Literature - User contributions [en]

I must beat it!

2017-11-30T07:35:56Z

Witchybitchy:

For my final project, I will be creating a youtube or twitch style walkthrough/let's play of our course, as if it were a video game. I have been capturing screen-recordings of myself doing assignments, posts, readings, and class notes periodically since the creation of CTRL_ALT_SYL and I plan to compile and edit them down, and then narrate over it, possibly with video of myself included.

How can we reach 100% completion? My walkthrough will provide tips and tricks for navigating through the various levels (weeks) of the quarter, the bosses (midterms and finals), the side quests (readings, assignments), the real time strategy (class notes and experiments), and even the mini games (me goofing off on my computer when I should be doing work for class).

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I think that the crux of this project challenges the university system by making it into a genre which it does not define itself as: this is a glass, not a game, and yet, through my construction, the evidence would suggest that it is, in fact, a game. I love the institution of education, but it could use some critiquing. Why do we submit ourselves to the level of rigor that we do? Why must our quarters be so strictly rounded into ten weeks? Can it be taken seriously if it can also be taken as a game? What does acing a class mean in the real world? What about getting a degree? Can we ever say we have 100%’d college, when we must necessarily pass up so many opportunities due to time constraints?

Lastly, my project will consider the ways in which socialization has become digitized. From class setups that are intrinsically gamey (chat rooms, google docs, instagram experiments), to the youtube forum of mass critique and commentary, whose voice has credence? How has credential evolved with digital platforms? Do I have authority over this class just because I made a walkthrough of it? And what types of social connections are possible in the internet and outernet, the URL and the IRL?

Probably none of these questions will be answered, but they will hopefully be asked in a delightfully infuriating way.

I must beat it!

2017-11-30T07:34:31Z

Witchybitchy:

For my final project, I will be creating a youtube or twitch style walkthrough/let's play of our course, as if it were a video game. I have been capturing screen-recordings of myself doing assignments, posts, readings, and class notes periodically since the creation of CTRL_ALT_SYL and I plan to compile and edit them down, and then narrate over it, possibly with video of myself included.

How can we reach 100% completion? My walkthrough will provide tips and tricks for navigating through the various levels (weeks) of the quarter, the bosses (midterms and finals), the side quests (readings, assignments), the real time strategy (class notes and experiments), and even the mini games (me goofing off on my computer when I should be doing work for class).

[[File:Screenshot.png]]

I think that the crux of this project challenges the university system by making it into a genre which it does not define itself as: this is a glass, not a game, and yet, through my construction, the evidence would suggest that it is, in fact, a game. I love the institution of education, but it could use some critiquing. Why do we submit ourselves to the level of rigor that we do? Why must our quarters be so strictly rounded into ten weeks? Can it be taken seriously if it can also be taken as a game? What does acing a class mean in the real world? What about getting a degree? Can we ever say we have 100%’d college, when we must necessarily pass up so many opportunities due to time constraints?

Lastly, my project will consider the ways in which socialization has become digitized. From class setups that are intrinsically gamey (chat rooms, google docs, instagram experiments), to the youtube forum of mass critique and commentary, whose voice has credence? How has credential evolved with digital platforms? Do I have authority over this class just because I made a walkthrough of it? And what types of social connections are possible in the internet and outernet, the URL and the IRL?

Probably none of these questions will be answered, but they will hopefully be asked in a delightfully infuriating way.

File:Screenshot.png

2017-11-30T07:34:01Z

Witchybitchy:

I must beat it!

2017-11-30T07:33:21Z

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For my final project, I will be creating a youtube or twitch style walkthrough/let's play of our course, as if it were a video game. I have been capturing screen-recordings of myself doing assignments, posts, readings, and class notes periodically since the creation of CTRL_ALT_SYL and I plan to compile and edit them down, and then narrate over it, possibly with video of myself included.

How can we reach 100% completion? My walkthrough will provide tips and tricks for navigating through the various levels (weeks) of the quarter, the bosses (midterms and finals), the side quests (readings, assignments), the real time strategy (class notes and experiments), and even the mini games (me goofing off on my computer when I should be doing work for class).
[[File:Screenshot.png]]
I think that the crux of this project challenges the university system by making it into a genre which it does not define itself as: this is a glass, not a game, and yet, through my construction, the evidence would suggest that it is, in fact, a game. I love the institution of education, but it could use some critiquing. Why do we submit ourselves to the level of rigor that we do? Why must our quarters be so strictly rounded into ten weeks? Can it be taken seriously if it can also be taken as a game? What does acing a class mean in the real world? What about getting a degree? Can we ever say we have 100%’d college, when we must necessarily pass up so many opportunities due to time constraints?

Lastly, my project will consider the ways in which socialization has become digitized. From class setups that are intrinsically gamey (chat rooms, google docs, instagram experiments), to the youtube forum of mass critique and commentary, whose voice has credence? How has credential evolved with digital platforms? Do I have authority over this class just because I made a walkthrough of it? And what types of social connections are possible in the internet and outernet, the URL and the IRL?

Probably none of these questions will be answered, but they will hopefully be asked in a delightfully infuriating way.

Game

2017-11-30T07:15:08Z

Witchybitchy:

I Made This You Play This We are Enemies (2009)

The game feels like a bad nightmare! It’s almost like my computer has been possessed and in order to exorcise it, [[I must beat it!]]
Level 3: Whenever I restart, the computer says “you purchased a farm.” I’d be lying if I said that this didn’t make me chuckle a bit. I do find the phrase “bought the farm” rather odd when referring to death.
Level 5: I was literally attacked by 101 Dalmatians. I didn’t know Disney could be so scary! The soundtrack sounds like a virus within the CPU is chanting for help. I dare not answer! Digital monsters must remain in captivity. Is this what Walt Disney intended all along?
Intermission: Finally! A chance to relax. There has been one instance in which a video game gave me the option rest during intermission. The other time was in a Mario game, which I found strangely odd.
Level 5: The first level to pose a real challenge. Avoiding the electrical bars too longer than I expected. The controls are tight so it wasn’t too difficult. I constantly look to the background to see what hidden messages I can decipher. Now I feel like I’m trying to escape from a computer before I get infected.
Ending: None of the rewards promised, I received!
Final thoughts: Interesting game. Superficially, it was a fun puzzle-platformer akin to games like Bubble Bobble or Solomon’s Key. Beyond that I felt like there was a deeper layer to explore. The scribble reminded me of something done on MS Paint. The bizarre levels were simple yet effective in their use of colors and deforming the screen. I applaud the programmer! Game design is a tough avenue but a one-man team can do a lot with some simple and clever innovations. Last thing, but I clicked on one of the videos and all it showed some home-footage shot at a [[graveyard]]. Afterwards, I couldn’t minimize or erase the video. It continually played and blocked my view of a portion of the level. The lesson to be learned is don’t click on everything simply because the computer says so! It could lead to a virus or just simply waste your time.

SB Sultan

==See also==
*[[releases]]
*[[circulation]]

Schisms

2017-11-28T06:27:51Z

Witchybitchy:

Eskelinen and Murray have contrasting methods for interpreting video games. While the former is concerned with form and structure, without regard to narrative, the latter focuses only on projecting her own narrative conceptions onto the medium. In reality, and in this class, we must meet in the middle. Video games, as we have seen, can function as a form of literature and art. However, they must retain their functions as ''games'' if they are to be kept within the genre. Perhaps what Murray describes is an interactive digital storytelling platform. She reads Tetris as a commentary on American's crammed and packed-in schedules, which Eskelinen views as grossly overstated as an interpretation. But certainly games like Bioshock and Fallout have much more legible depth of meaning. In the post-digital era, these games are taken as an undeniable factor in public entertainment and opinion. They cannot be removed from the genre of youth culture. Therefore, this debate becomes much more dynamic as games ''must'' be interpretted, even if they are, like Tetris, "just games." In this era, new methods of interpretation, criticism, and exploration hold value, often in an incredibly public way.

Stay tuned for my Final reading of the greatest game of all ;)

Schisms

2017-11-28T06:27:20Z

Witchybitchy: Created page with "Eskelinen and Murray have contrasting methods for interpreting video games. While the former is concerned with form and structure, without regard to narrative, the latter focu..."

Eskelinen and Murray have contrasting methods for interpreting video games. While the former is concerned with form and structure, without regard to narrative, the latter focuses only on projecting her own narrative conceptions onto the medium. In reality, and in this class, we must meet in the middle. Video games, as we have seen, can function as a form of literature and art. However, they must retain their functions as ''games'' if they are to be kept witin the genre. Perhaps what Murray describes is an interactive digital storytelling platform. She reads Tetris as a commentary on American's crammed and packed-in schedules, which Eskelinen views as grossly overstated as an interpretation. But certainly games like Bioshock and Fallout have much more legible depth of meaning. In the post-digital era, these games are taken as an undeniable factor in public entertainment and opinion. They cannot be removed from the genre of youth culture. Therefore, this debate becomes much more dynamic as games ''must'' be interpretted, even if they are, like Tetris, "just games." In this era, new methods of interpretation, criticism, and exploration hold value, often in an incredibly public way.

Stay tuned for my Final reading of the greatest game of all ;)

How accustomed I am to reading

2017-11-28T06:19:05Z

Witchybitchy:

Ciento: 100 100-Word Love [[Poems]]
by Lorna Dee Cervantes

100 Words To A Pixellated & Pixilated You

If 100 words is all
it takes to write me
back to you, I say,
bring on the fractures, new
fissures, the tiny breaks in
the heart, all the on
and off in the mathematics
of we two--wee bits
of light catching the fold.
I say, say it simple,
keep it close to chest.
One switch puts it all
in play--this television drama
splicing us together or apart.
I say, this spring season
watch all the episodes with
me. Dance across the screen.
Let me knead you to
your final conclusion. Let's laugh,
a fractal imagining, and love.

If 10x10 expressions is all
it takes to inscribe myself,
return to you, I say,
carry forth the rupture, unfamiliar
cracks, infinitesimal [[schisms]] in
my nature, total dis-
continuity between our patterns
and figures--minuscule slivers
of luminosity taking the bend.
Declaring, disclose candidly,
retain it near the reliquary.
Single reversal sets it
in motion-- this small screen tragedy
grafting us, intertwined or separate.
Declaring, during this renewal,
absorb all installments together.
Sway beyond the veil.
Allow me to mold you to
your eventual outcome. Allow us to howl,
a curved vision, and devotion.

Post-Digital Objects

2017-11-14T05:34:07Z

Witchybitchy:

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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]
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R.T. [http://www.cafepress.com/cp/customize/product.aspx?number=162336037]
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L.R.[http://www.cafepress.com/cp/viewcart.aspx?s=selfbuy&keepshopping=%2fselfbuy]
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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]
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CC
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B.K.S. [http://www.cafepress.com/mf/111447537/postdigital-cage_mugs?productId=163153093]
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H.H.
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msl. [http://dss-edit.com/elit/wiki/index.php?title=2017.145]
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LM [https://www.zazzle.com/the_post_digital_walt_whitman_coffee_mug-168833273063555296] [[File:pdww.png|550px]]

S.K. [https://www.zazzle.com/pd/spp/pt-zazzle_mug?dz=45af799c-753f-40f7-b47b-88be5336636d&side_name=front&style=basic_mug&size=11oz&color=white&addon=none&design.areas=%5Bzazzle_mug_11_front%5D&context=114529070928263395&view=113282108070337578] [[File:TheLibraryofBabel.jpg]]

L.Y. [https://www.zazzle.com/z/oakb2?rf=238853390982089085]
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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]
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SS Praise Yerself Basic B Tee
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2017-11-14T05:33:30Z

Witchybitchy:

Post-Digital Objects

2017-11-14T05:30:55Z

Witchybitchy:

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]
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R.T. [http://www.cafepress.com/cp/customize/product.aspx?number=162336037]
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L.R.[http://www.cafepress.com/cp/viewcart.aspx?s=selfbuy&keepshopping=%2fselfbuy]
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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]
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CC
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B.K.S. [http://www.cafepress.com/mf/111447537/postdigital-cage_mugs?productId=163153093]
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H.H.
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msl. [http://dss-edit.com/elit/wiki/index.php?title=2017.145]
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LM [https://www.zazzle.com/the_post_digital_walt_whitman_coffee_mug-168833273063555296] [[File:pdww.png|550px]]

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L.Y. [https://www.zazzle.com/z/oakb2?rf=238853390982089085]
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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]
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Post-Digital Reading Library

2017-11-09T00:02:49Z

Witchybitchy:

'''The Platformers:'''
(J.L., S.S., J.C., C.C., I.B., R.T., A.G.)
''The Platformers and the Post-Digital'':[https://docs.google.com/a/g.ucla.edu/document/d/1DjSTWoKpeLq-xbm3sI7MmGyl-R7v4caMltqO49y7z8U/edit?usp=sharing]
PDF: [http://www.lulu.com/items/volume_78/21819000/21819850/2/print/21819850.pdf], cover [http://www.lulu.com/items/volume_78/21819000/21819850/2/print/21819850_cover.pdf]

'''The Texters:'''
''The Texters' Guide to the Post-Digital'': [http://www.lulu.com/shop/texters-elit/the-texters-guide-to-the-post-digital/paperback/product-23400298.html]
PDF: [https://www.scribd.com/document/363828024/ELit-Post-Digital-Book-Texters]

Post-Digital Reading Library

2017-11-07T23:44:57Z

Witchybitchy:

The Platformers: https://docs.google.com/a/g.ucla.edu/document/d/1DjSTWoKpeLq-xbm3sI7MmGyl-R7v4caMltqO49y7z8U/edit?usp=sharing

Post-Digital Reading Library

2017-11-07T23:44:12Z

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2017-11-07T23:43:25Z

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E-Lit Wiki

2017-11-07T23:42:56Z

Witchybitchy:

[[File:Elit_web.png|200px|thumb|right|For further reading, refer to [http://www.lulu.com/shop/ucla-elit/e-lit-what-is-it-revised-expanded-ucla-edition-v201-10317-315-345pm/paperback/product-23358123.html]]][[What]] is [[see also: nothing?|not]] [[electronic]] literature today? Rather than introduce electronic literature or “e-lit” as a [[distinct]] literary [[category]], ELIT WIKI 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]], this wiki explores a range of new literary genres inhabiting, for example, [[computer]] scripts, image [[macros]], flash movies, social media, [[hypertext]] [[bandcamp]] [[releases]], [[interactive]] applications, and print on demand [[Analysis of Diana Hamilton's Dreams|books]]. Thinking through the present, ELIT WIKI 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 track the [[development]] of [[literature]] [[under the influence]] of [[computation]] up to works published in the [[present]], as they emerge online. In lockstep, this wiki 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 wiki features short pages in an open format, which may be [[critical]] or [[creative]] in form, [[developed]] in [[conversation]] with the editors. No previous experience in [[programming]], [[poetry]], or literature is [[required]] to read these pages.

== Inspiration ==

This wiki surveys the development and current state of electronic literature, from the popularity of hypertext fiction in the [[1980's]] to the present, focusing on a [[range]] of emergent genres. It also discusses the central critical [[issues]] raised by electronic literature, pointing out that there is significant overlap with the print tradition. At the same time, the essay argues that the practices, texts, procedures, and processual nature of electronic literature require new critical models and new ways of playing and [[interpreting]] the works. E-Lit WIki is not a systematic attempt to survey and summarize the [[fast]]-changing field of electronic literature, artists, [[designers]], writers, critics—instead, it imagines itself a [[playful]] [[engagement]] with the forms and platforms of the present. (See [http://eliterature.org/pad/elp.html Hayles, 2007])

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

== See Also ==

[[Paragraphs on Conceptual Wiki Posts]]

[[Concept Twitter]]

[[Alt Syllabus]]

[[Poor Bootleg]]

[[Wreading E-Lit]]

[[E-Lit Reddit: WreadIt]]

[[Post-Digital Reading Library]]

Beauty

2017-11-07T02:54:39Z

Witchybitchy:

I read the critical reading that was related to Instagram, which was called “Instagram Influences Creative Work”. Instagram has become another platform where one can express themselves and share their work with others (Instagram Influences Creative work). It has become more than just an app where people share photos. This app is changing the way we read literature, for it is transforming it into an art piece. As for the creative works, the first one I took a look at was the “Snap Art”. It was so interesting to see someone basically make their own filters by drawing them on their snaps. These drawings on the snap definitely changed the original photo, for it was able to bring the photo to life and give it new meaning. Next, I took a look at “Lonely Tweets :’(“ and this creative work really made me think of how funny it is that the internet is supposed to make us feel more connected because it seems to only make us feel more lonely (Lonely Tweets :’(). [[File:depressionmeme.jpeg|200px|thumb|right|A pattern to this depression of the internet has developed, uniting internet users by their common mental illness and loneliness. Even as they joke about loneliness, they cannot truly share this "relatable content" with their friends in real life. Thus, it may serve to compound the problem.]] Even though we can talk to almost anyone around the world, it doesn’t change the fact that they are miles and miles away. In the end, you are still by yourself, since the person you are trying to reach out to can’t physically be by your side. The last creative work I took a look at was “Fuck Jerry”, which was an Instagram page that was dedicated to memes. There was a variety of different memes and all the various ones made me see that you can truly make something out of nothing. Memes seem to be a way of reassuring people that they are not by themselves in this world. The memes show people that there are others out there that have similar thoughts, feelings or are in the same situation.

[[File:Lonely.jpg]]

"I hate the silence".

Beauty

2017-11-07T02:53:39Z

Witchybitchy:

I read the critical reading that was related to Instagram, which was called “Instagram Influences Creative Work”. Instagram has become another platform where one can express themselves and share their work with others (Instagram Influences Creative work). It has become more than just an app where people share photos. This app is changing the way we read literature, for it is transforming it into an art piece. As for the creative works, the first one I took a look at was the “Snap Art”. It was so interesting to see someone basically make their own filters by drawing them on their snaps. These drawings on the snap definitely changed the original photo, for it was able to bring the photo to life and give it new meaning. Next, I took a look at “Lonely Tweets :’(“ and this creative work really made me think of how funny it is that the internet is supposed to make us feel more connected because it seems to only make us feel more lonely (Lonely Tweets :’(). [[File:depressionmeme.jpeg|200px|thumb|right|A pattern to this depression of the internet has developed, uniting internet users by their common mental illness and loneliness. Evenas they jke about lonliness, they cannot truly share this "relatable content" with their friends in real life. Thus, it may serve to compound the problem.]] Even though we can talk to almost anyone around the world, it doesn’t change the fact that they are miles and miles away. In the end, you are still by yourself, since the person you are trying to reach out to can’t physically be by your side. The last creative work I took a look at was “Fuck Jerry”, which was an Instagram page that was dedicated to memes. There was a variety of different memes and all the various ones made me see that you can truly make something out of nothing. Memes seem to be a way of reassuring people that they are not by themselves in this world. The memes show people that there are others out there that have similar thoughts, feelings or are in the same situation.

[[File:Lonely.jpg]]

"I hate the silence".

File:Depressionmeme.jpeg

2017-11-07T02:51:32Z

Witchybitchy:

Beauty

2017-11-07T02:50:16Z

Witchybitchy:

I read the critical reading that was related to Instagram, which was called “Instagram Influences Creative Work”. Instagram has become another platform where one can express themselves and share their work with others (Instagram Influences Creative work). It has become more than just an app where people share photos. This app is changing the way we read literature, for it is transforming it into an art piece. As for the creative works, the first one I took a look at was the “Snap Art”. It was so interesting to see someone basically make their own filters by drawing them on their snaps. These drawings on the snap definitely changed the original photo, for it was able to bring the photo to life and give it new meaning. Next, I took a look at “Lonely Tweets :’(“ and this creative work really made me think of how funny it is that the internet is supposed to make us feel more connected because it seems to only make us feel more lonely (Lonely Tweets :’(). [[File:File.png|200px|thumb|right|alt text]] Even though we can talk to almost anyone around the world, it doesn’t change the fact that they are miles and miles away. In the end, you are still by yourself, since the person you are trying to reach out to can’t physically be by your side. The last creative work I took a look at was “Fuck Jerry”, which was an Instagram page that was dedicated to memes. There was a variety of different memes and all the various ones made me see that you can truly make something out of nothing. Memes seem to be a way of reassuring people that they are not by themselves in this world. The memes show people that there are others out there that have similar thoughts, feelings or are in the same situation.

[[File:Lonely.jpg]]

"I hate the silence".

Want

2017-11-07T02:44:13Z

Witchybitchy:

A lot of what we do, or maybe everything we do, is a result of want or desire. Christopher Strachey desires his love and wants to emphasize his affection through his "Love Letters." Judd Morrissey wants to illustrate a new way of reading and interaction with a story through "The Jew's Daughter."

[[File:Link.png|200px|thumb|right|This hypertext link wants to be clicked on, but cannot, symbolizing the unique user interaction requisite in reading IF and hypertext literature]]

People post their work, pictures, stories, ideas, and so forth to many different media outlets because they want to be heard, acknowledged, or merely affect others in some way. We also act certain ways because we want certain things or want to be seen a certain way. We are similar to computers this way. Like the want and desire is programmed in us and the code makes certain it is played out. While the want in all of us may produce beautiful works, innovative ideas, and a happy life, it can also cause problems and destruction. What happens when we can't get or do what we want? Or when what we want does not cooperate with our mind or bodies? There's a glitch in my system. I want to let go, but I can't. I want to forget, but I don't. I want to move on, but I'm stuck. So what am I supposed to do? Can we reprogram ourselves to be different from what we are? Upgrade our system? I suppose this is what reading, listening, and learning does for us...but it is just too slow for my liking. But maybe that's just my desire to grow talking.

Want

2017-11-07T02:43:50Z

Witchybitchy:

A lot of what we do, or maybe everything we do, is a result of want or desire. Christopher Strachey desires his love and wants to emphasize his affection through his "Love Letters." Judd Morrissey wants to illustrate a new way of reading and interaction with a story through "The Jew's Daughter."

[[File:Link.png|200px|thumb|right|This hypertext link wants to be clicked on, but cannot, symbolizing the unique user interaction requisite in reading IF and hyoertext literature]]

People post their work, pictures, stories, ideas, and so forth to many different media outlets because they want to be heard, acknowledged, or merely affect others in some way. We also act certain ways because we want certain things or want to be seen a certain way. We are similar to computers this way. Like the want and desire is programmed in us and the code makes certain it is played out. While the want in all of us may produce beautiful works, innovative ideas, and a happy life, it can also cause problems and destruction. What happens when we can't get or do what we want? Or when what we want does not cooperate with our mind or bodies? There's a glitch in my system. I want to let go, but I can't. I want to forget, but I don't. I want to move on, but I'm stuck. So what am I supposed to do? Can we reprogram ourselves to be different from what we are? Upgrade our system? I suppose this is what reading, listening, and learning does for us...but it is just too slow for my liking. But maybe that's just my desire to grow talking.

File:Link.png

2017-11-07T02:42:36Z

Witchybitchy:

Want

2017-11-07T02:41:47Z

Witchybitchy:

A lot of what we do, or maybe everything we do, is a result of want or desire. Christopher Strachey desires his love and wants to emphasize his affection through his "Love Letters." Judd Morrissey wants to illustrate a new way of reading and interaction with a story through "The Jew's Daughter."

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

People post their work, pictures, stories, ideas, and so forth to many different media outlets because they want to be heard, acknowledged, or merely affect others in some way. We also act certain ways because we want certain things or want to be seen a certain way. We are similar to computers this way. Like the want and desire is programmed in us and the code makes certain it is played out. While the want in all of us may produce beautiful works, innovative ideas, and a happy life, it can also cause problems and destruction. What happens when we can't get or do what we want? Or when what we want does not cooperate with our mind or bodies? There's a glitch in my system. I want to let go, but I can't. I want to forget, but I don't. I want to move on, but I'm stuck. So what am I supposed to do? Can we reprogram ourselves to be different from what we are? Upgrade our system? I suppose this is what reading, listening, and learning does for us...but it is just too slow for my liking. But maybe that's just my desire to grow talking.

Meaning

2017-11-07T02:39:13Z

Witchybitchy:

[[File:Woman.png|200px|thumb|right|A woman contemplates the meaning of this wiki page]]

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==See Also==
*[[Creation]]
*[[Computation]]

File:Woman.png

2017-11-07T02:38:10Z

Witchybitchy: A woman contemplates the meaning of this wiki page

A woman contemplates the meaning of this wiki page

Meaning

2017-11-07T02:36:18Z

Witchybitchy:

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==See Also==
*[[Creation]]
*[[Computation]]

Book

2017-10-31T17:04:15Z

Witchybitchy: Created page with "Robert Coover attests that we are encountering the "end of books," and I must say this class provides a compelling support for his argument. We are moving away from the novel,..."

Robert Coover attests that we are encountering the "end of books," and I must say this class provides a compelling support for his argument. We are moving away from the novel, so he says. Before the novel was, what? Epic poetry and amores? Classical treatises? It exists as a tradition of history, to be played with, but not replicated, by modern authors. Will the novel pass into this level of distance? The novel which we have credited as the major literary form of fiction and even nonfiction writers. What of genre? What of tonality? How will these be represented, and in what form?

I overheard an old man from the English depart yesterday saying that emojis were the new tonality, and that they took away all sincerity to communication. The woman next to him disagreed somewhat, she chimed that emojis are the new sincerity. I tend to agree. But as I'm ''''''Bold text'''''working on my novel''''' this weekend, how can I combat the fear of the novel leaving me?

New

2017-10-31T16:58:38Z

Witchybitchy:

Like Borges explored in his short story “The Garden of Forking Paths”, new methods of production require [[people]] to [[view]] the ending product with a more observant strategy adventitious from the traditional way of reading. In the story, Ts’ui Pên created a labyrinth embodied in his [[book]], which in some way corresponds with the interactive fiction Hayles mentioned in her essay. The book is described with the word “chaotic” by Pen’s descendants, it is through Albert Stephen’s examination that they found out the book must be read in an unconventional way. The line that I found that summarizes a similarity between the labyrinth and electronic literature is that “in all fictional works, each time a man is confronted with several alternatives, he chooses one and eliminates the others; in the fiction of Ts’ui Pên, he chooses— simultaneously—all of them.” (Borges) Electronic literature, as Professor stated in class, leans more on the “thinkership” rather than “readership”, therefore offers more possibility for the readers’ own interpretation than conventional literature does. What fascinates me about electronic literature is not the content contained(for example in “The Library of Babel”, most of the readings are unable to translate), but the realization that human beings already contained all the answers to everything, yet the realization itself makes it impossible to grasp these answers.

==See also==
[[bandcamp]]

[[vinyl record]]

Alt Syllabus

2017-10-26T21:59:38Z

Witchybitchy:

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

UCLA 2017
ENGL 116B

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

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SB Sultan -
Critical Reading: Gaming the Literary: On Video Games and Literature[[http://www.nymgamer.com/?p=12515]]
Darkness - Chapter 1, Yedda Morrison [[http://littleredleaves.com/ebooks/darkness.pdf]]

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]] [[http://elit.umwblogs.org/2017/02/10/choose-your-own-youtube-adventure/]]

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 (Ian Crouch) [https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/great-american-twitter-novel]
Twitter Fiction: Social Networking and Microfiction in 140 Characters (Carla Raguseo) [http://www.tesl-ej.org/wordpress/issues/volume13/ej52/ej52int/?iframe=true&width=80%&height=80%]
Neil Gaiman sets Twitter ablaze with fan collaboration (Laura Blackwell) [https://www.pcworld.com/article/2030776/neil-gaiman-sets-twitter-ablaze-with-fan-collaboration.html]
Neil Gaiman + Twitter = Interactive Storytelling (Barb Dybwab) [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 (Anne Charlton) [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]

H.A. - Tweet

""Critical Readings:"" A Literature Review On Twitter Data Analysis [http://www.ijcee.org/vol8/931-IT015.pdf]

""Creative Work"": Lonely Tweets :'( [https://lonelytweets.com/]

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]

BL-S - Vaporwave

'''Critical Readings:''' Do You Want Vaporwave, or Do You Want the Truth? [http://capaciousjournal.com/issue/capacious_vol-1_no-1_2017.pdf#page=70]

'''Creative Works:''' ff015 - t e l e p a t h テレパシー能力者 and Silver Richards - 夜遊び tape by freak friendly diy [https://freakfriendlydiy.bandcamp.com/album/ff015-t-e-l-e-p-a-t-h-and-silver-richards-tape]

RS- Materiality

'''Critical Readings:''' The Aesthetics of Materiality in Electronic Literature (Serge Bouchardon) [http://www.utc.fr/~bouchard/articles/Bouchardon-Bergen-materiality-2008.pdf]

'''Creative Works:''' Richard With Hair Doing Things (Richard MacDougall) [https://www.instagram.com/richardwithhairdoingthings/]

J.C. - Hypertext Fiction

'''Critical Readings:''' Reading Hypertext and the Experience of Literature (David S. Miall and Teresa Dobson) [https://journals.tdl.org/jodi/index.php/jodi/article/view/35/37]

'''Creative Works:''' 24 Hours (Philippa J Burne) [http://www.glasswings.com.au/GlassWings/modern/24hours/]
My Body - a Wunderkammer (Shelley Jackson) [http://collection.eliterature.org/1/works/jackson__my_body_a_wunderkammer.html]
Shade (Andrew Plotkin) [http://www.eblong.com/zarf/zweb/shade/]

DK - Interfaces

'''Critical Readings:''' "Race In/For Cyberspace: Identity Tourism and Racial Passing on the Internet" Lisa Nakamura [https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/3531/da9329d2b7158bd697e1aa8ef073f78de6fb.pdf]

'''Creative Works:''' Between Page and Screen by Amarunth Borsuk [http://www.betweenpageandscreen.com]
Bad Nudes [http://badnudes.com]
Laurel Halo and Hatsune Miku [http://www.aft3r.us/still-be-here/]] and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aap4eLlt2WI]
Solitude by Martine Syms [https://www.canopycanopycanopy.com/contents/solitude/#title-page]
Dissolution of the Sovereign… by Elysia Crampton [https://soundcloud.com/eande/dissolution-of-the-sovereign-a-time-slide-or-a-non-abled-offenders-exercise-in-jurisprudence]
Glass press [http://www.glasspressofthefuture.com/about]

KU- Instagram
'''Critical Readings:''' What is Instagram and Why is it so Popular [https://ischool.syr.edu/infospace/2011/12/15/what-is-instagram-and-why-is-it-so-popular/]
Instagram Influences Creative Work [https://www.warc.com/NewsAndOpinion/News/35288?]
'''Creative Works:''' Instagram-Creative Workshop [https://www.instagram.com/creative_work_shop/] The 20 Most Creative Instagram Pages [http://www.lifehack.org/articles/productivity/the-20-most-creative-instagram-accounts-that-will-inspire-you.html]

CC

Spirit Surfing, Kevin Bewersdorf [http://veryinteractive.net/content/4-library/1-spirit-surfing/bewersdorf-spiritsurfing.pdf]
Screen. Image. Text., Orit Gat [http://rhizome.org/editorial/2012/may/16/screen-image-text/]
Jodi's Infrastructure, Alexander R. Galloway [http://www.e-flux.com/journal/74/59810/jodi-s-infrastructure/]

Live Simulations, Ian Cheng [http://iancheng.com/#simulations]
When all my friends are on at once [http://allmyfriendsatonce.com/]
Tripod Zoo by my dear friend Gabe Pine! [http://gabepine.com/]

J.K. -Interactive Fiction

Creative: "Choose Your Own Youtube Adventure!" [[http://elit.umwblogs.org/2014/02/01/on-visual-novels-one-in-particular/]]
Critical: "On Visual Novels, One in Particular" [[http://elit.umwblogs.org/2017/02/10/choose-your-own-youtube-adventure/]]

SK - Commenting on Comments

'''Critical''': Why Are YouTube Comments the Worst on the Internet [[https://www.newstatesman.com/science-tech/internet/2016/10/why-are-youtube-comments-worst-internet]]
'''Creative''': Rooster_86 [[https://www.reddit.com/r/HighQualityGifs/comments/77d9ou/the_predictable_threads_are_driving_me_insane/#bottom-comments]]
We Didn't Start the Flame War [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_QyYaPWasos]]
LY- GIFS
'''Critical Readings:''' Fast, Cheap, and Good: Why Animated GIFs Engage Us [http://delivery.acm.org/10.1145/2860000/2858532/p575-bakhshi.pdf?ip=131.179.61.143&id=2858532&acc=ACTIVE%20SERVICE&key=CA367851C7E3CE77%2E79535EF926D6BC05%2E4D4702B0C3E38B35%2E4D4702B0C3E38B35&CFID=999019442&CFTOKEN=72613616&__acm__=1509047554_4015bb14b1cc2a3313309d563bcf7be5]
How GIF Won the Internet [http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20170825-how-the-gif-won-the-internet]
'''Creative Works:''' The Story of Gif [http://thestoryofgif.com/]
Being An English Major as told by 'The Office' [https://www.theodysseyonline.com/english-major-told-office-gifs]
Classical Art as Gifs [https://www.boredpanda.com/classic-painting-gifs-kiszkiloszki/]
j.l. – interactive fiction
'''Critical Readings:''' Electronic Literature its Emerging Forms (by Dr. Dene Grigar) [[http://dtc-wsuv.org/elit/elit-loc/denes-curatorial-statement]]

'''Creative Works:''' r/nosleep ( [[https://www.reddit.com/r/nosleep/comments/78td1x/the_part_of_the_deep_web_that_we_arent_supposed/]]

SS - Critiques of The Internet via the Internet (or, Supreme Hypocrisy)

'''Critical Readings''': A conceptual and methodological critique of internet addiction research: Towards a model of compensatory internet use
[http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0747563213004093], On the Democratizing and De-Democratizing Logics of the Internet, or, toward a Critique of the New
Technological Fetishism [http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/026327640201900110]

'''Creative Readings''': Screen-Free Parenting Facebook Group [https://www.facebook.com/screenfreeparenting/], "Pure Living for Life" Off-the-Grid YouTube personality/info
channel [https://www.youtube.com/channel/UChhBsM9K_Bc9a_YTK7UUlnQ/videos], Digital Detox Twitter page [https://twitter.com/_DigitalDetox], Camp Grounded: where adults go to
unplug [http://campgrounded.org/]

H.H. - Interactive fiction
""Critical Readings:"' Reading from paper versus screens: a critical review of the empirical literature (by Andrew Dillon) [[https://www.ischool.utexas.edu/~adillon/Journals/Reading.htm]]

""Creative Readings:"" Twine Emoji game [[http://rilarhiv.ru/online/emoji_game/o_O.html]]

Alt Syllabus

2017-10-26T21:50:57Z

Witchybitchy:

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

UCLA 2017
ENGL 116B

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

----
SB Sultan -
Critical Reading: Gaming the Literary: On Video Games and Literature[[http://www.nymgamer.com/?p=12515]]
Darkness - Chapter 1, Yedda Morrison [[http://littleredleaves.com/ebooks/darkness.pdf]]

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]] [[http://elit.umwblogs.org/2017/02/10/choose-your-own-youtube-adventure/]]

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 (Ian Crouch) [https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/great-american-twitter-novel]
Twitter Fiction: Social Networking and Microfiction in 140 Characters (Carla Raguseo) [http://www.tesl-ej.org/wordpress/issues/volume13/ej52/ej52int/?iframe=true&width=80%&height=80%]
Neil Gaiman sets Twitter ablaze with fan collaboration (Laura Blackwell) [https://www.pcworld.com/article/2030776/neil-gaiman-sets-twitter-ablaze-with-fan-collaboration.html]
Neil Gaiman + Twitter = Interactive Storytelling (Barb Dybwab) [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 (Anne Charlton) [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]

H.A. - Tweet

""Critical Readings:"" A Literature Review On Twitter Data Analysis [http://www.ijcee.org/vol8/931-IT015.pdf]

""Creative Work"": Lonely Tweets :'( [https://lonelytweets.com/]

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]

BL-S - Vaporwave

'''Critical Readings:''' Do You Want Vaporwave, or Do You Want the Truth? [http://capaciousjournal.com/issue/capacious_vol-1_no-1_2017.pdf#page=70]

'''Creative Works:''' ff015 - t e l e p a t h テレパシー能力者 and Silver Richards - 夜遊び tape by freak friendly diy [https://freakfriendlydiy.bandcamp.com/album/ff015-t-e-l-e-p-a-t-h-and-silver-richards-tape]

RS- Materiality

'''Critical Readings:''' The Aesthetics of Materiality in Electronic Literature (Serge Bouchardon) [http://www.utc.fr/~bouchard/articles/Bouchardon-Bergen-materiality-2008.pdf]

'''Creative Works:''' Richard With Hair Doing Things (Richard MacDougall) [https://www.instagram.com/richardwithhairdoingthings/]

J.C. - Hypertext Fiction

'''Critical Readings:''' Reading Hypertext and the Experience of Literature (David S. Miall and Teresa Dobson) [https://journals.tdl.org/jodi/index.php/jodi/article/view/35/37]

'''Creative Works:''' 24 Hours (Philippa J Burne) [http://www.glasswings.com.au/GlassWings/modern/24hours/]
My Body - a Wunderkammer (Shelley Jackson) [http://collection.eliterature.org/1/works/jackson__my_body_a_wunderkammer.html]
Shade (Andrew Plotkin) [http://www.eblong.com/zarf/zweb/shade/]

DK - Interfaces

'''Critical Readings:''' "Race In/For Cyberspace: Identity Tourism and Racial Passing on the Internet" Lisa Nakamura [https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/3531/da9329d2b7158bd697e1aa8ef073f78de6fb.pdf]

'''Creative Works:''' Between Page and Screen by Amarunth Borsuk [http://www.betweenpageandscreen.com]
Bad Nudes [http://badnudes.com]
Laurel Halo and Hatsune Miku [http://www.aft3r.us/still-be-here/]] and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aap4eLlt2WI]
Solitude by Martine Syms [https://www.canopycanopycanopy.com/contents/solitude/#title-page]
Dissolution of the Sovereign… by Elysia Crampton [https://soundcloud.com/eande/dissolution-of-the-sovereign-a-time-slide-or-a-non-abled-offenders-exercise-in-jurisprudence]
Glass press [http://www.glasspressofthefuture.com/about]

KU- Instagram
'''Critical Readings:''' What is Instagram and Why is it so Popular [https://ischool.syr.edu/infospace/2011/12/15/what-is-instagram-and-why-is-it-so-popular/]
Instagram Influences Creative Work [https://www.warc.com/NewsAndOpinion/News/35288?]
'''Creative Works:''' Instagram-Creative Workshop [https://www.instagram.com/creative_work_shop/] The 20 Most Creative Instagram Pages [http://www.lifehack.org/articles/productivity/the-20-most-creative-instagram-accounts-that-will-inspire-you.html]

CC

Spirit Surfing, Kevin Bewersdorf [http://veryinteractive.net/content/4-library/1-spirit-surfing/bewersdorf-spiritsurfing.pdf]
Screen. Image. Text., Orit Gat [http://rhizome.org/editorial/2012/may/16/screen-image-text/]
Jodi's Infrastructure, Alexander R. Galloway [http://www.e-flux.com/journal/74/59810/jodi-s-infrastructure/]

Live Simulations, Ian Cheng [http://iancheng.com/#simulations]
When all my friends are on at once [http://allmyfriendsatonce.com/]
Tripod Zoo by my dear friend Gabe Pine! [http://gabepine.com/]

J.K. -Interactive Fiction

Creative: "Choose Your Own Youtube Adventure!" [[http://elit.umwblogs.org/2014/02/01/on-visual-novels-one-in-particular/]]
Critical: "On Visual Novels, One in Particular" [[http://elit.umwblogs.org/2017/02/10/choose-your-own-youtube-adventure/]]

SK - Commenting on Comments

'''Critical''': Why Are YouTube Comments the Worst on the Internet [[https://www.newstatesman.com/science-tech/internet/2016/10/why-are-youtube-comments-worst-internet]]
'''Creative''': Rooster_86 [[https://www.reddit.com/r/HighQualityGifs/comments/77d9ou/the_predictable_threads_are_driving_me_insane/#bottom-comments]]

LY- GIFS
'''Critical Readings:''' Fast, Cheap, and Good: Why Animated GIFs Engage Us [http://delivery.acm.org/10.1145/2860000/2858532/p575-bakhshi.pdf?ip=131.179.61.143&id=2858532&acc=ACTIVE%20SERVICE&key=CA367851C7E3CE77%2E79535EF926D6BC05%2E4D4702B0C3E38B35%2E4D4702B0C3E38B35&CFID=999019442&CFTOKEN=72613616&__acm__=1509047554_4015bb14b1cc2a3313309d563bcf7be5]
How GIF Won the Internet [http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20170825-how-the-gif-won-the-internet]
'''Creative Works:''' The Story of Gif [http://thestoryofgif.com/]
Being An English Major as told by 'The Office' [https://www.theodysseyonline.com/english-major-told-office-gifs]
Classical Art as Gifs [https://www.boredpanda.com/classic-painting-gifs-kiszkiloszki/]
j.l. – interactive fiction
'''Critical Readings:''' Electronic Literature its Emerging Forms (by Dr. Dene Grigar) [[http://dtc-wsuv.org/elit/elit-loc/denes-curatorial-statement]]

'''Creative Works:''' r/nosleep ( [[https://www.reddit.com/r/nosleep/comments/78td1x/the_part_of_the_deep_web_that_we_arent_supposed/]]

SS - Critiques of The Internet via the Internet (or, Supreme Hypocrisy)

'''Critical Readings''': A conceptual and methodological critique of internet addiction research: Towards a model of compensatory internet use
[http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0747563213004093], On the Democratizing and De-Democratizing Logics of the Internet, or, toward a Critique of the New
Technological Fetishism [http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/026327640201900110]

'''Creative Readings''': Screen-Free Parenting Facebook Group [https://www.facebook.com/screenfreeparenting/], "Pure Living for Life" Off-the-Grid YouTube personality/info
channel [https://www.youtube.com/channel/UChhBsM9K_Bc9a_YTK7UUlnQ/videos], Digital Detox Twitter page [https://twitter.com/_DigitalDetox]

Alt Syllabus

2017-10-26T21:50:15Z

Witchybitchy:

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

UCLA 2017
ENGL 116B

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

----
SB Sultan -
Critical Reading: Gaming the Literary: On Video Games and Literature[[http://www.nymgamer.com/?p=12515]]
Darkness - Chapter 1, Yedda Morrison [[http://littleredleaves.com/ebooks/darkness.pdf]]

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]] [[http://elit.umwblogs.org/2017/02/10/choose-your-own-youtube-adventure/]]

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 (Ian Crouch) [https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/great-american-twitter-novel]
Twitter Fiction: Social Networking and Microfiction in 140 Characters (Carla Raguseo) [http://www.tesl-ej.org/wordpress/issues/volume13/ej52/ej52int/?iframe=true&width=80%&height=80%]
Neil Gaiman sets Twitter ablaze with fan collaboration (Laura Blackwell) [https://www.pcworld.com/article/2030776/neil-gaiman-sets-twitter-ablaze-with-fan-collaboration.html]
Neil Gaiman + Twitter = Interactive Storytelling (Barb Dybwab) [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 (Anne Charlton) [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]

H.A. - Tweet

""Critical Readings:"" A Literature Review On Twitter Data Analysis [http://www.ijcee.org/vol8/931-IT015.pdf]

""Creative Work"": Lonely Tweets :'( [https://lonelytweets.com/]

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]

BL-S - Vaporwave

'''Critical Readings:''' Do You Want Vaporwave, or Do You Want the Truth? [http://capaciousjournal.com/issue/capacious_vol-1_no-1_2017.pdf#page=70]

'''Creative Works:''' ff015 - t e l e p a t h テレパシー能力者 and Silver Richards - 夜遊び tape by freak friendly diy [https://freakfriendlydiy.bandcamp.com/album/ff015-t-e-l-e-p-a-t-h-and-silver-richards-tape]

RS- Materiality

'''Critical Readings:''' The Aesthetics of Materiality in Electronic Literature (Serge Bouchardon) [http://www.utc.fr/~bouchard/articles/Bouchardon-Bergen-materiality-2008.pdf]

'''Creative Works:''' Richard With Hair Doing Things (Richard MacDougall) [https://www.instagram.com/richardwithhairdoingthings/]

J.C. - Hypertext Fiction

'''Critical Readings:''' Reading Hypertext and the Experience of Literature (David S. Miall and Teresa Dobson) [https://journals.tdl.org/jodi/index.php/jodi/article/view/35/37]

'''Creative Works:''' 24 Hours (Philippa J Burne) [http://www.glasswings.com.au/GlassWings/modern/24hours/]
My Body - a Wunderkammer (Shelley Jackson) [http://collection.eliterature.org/1/works/jackson__my_body_a_wunderkammer.html]
Shade (Andrew Plotkin) [http://www.eblong.com/zarf/zweb/shade/]

DK - Interfaces

'''Critical Readings:''' "Race In/For Cyberspace: Identity Tourism and Racial Passing on the Internet" Lisa Nakamura [https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/3531/da9329d2b7158bd697e1aa8ef073f78de6fb.pdf]

'''Creative Works:''' Between Page and Screen by Amarunth Borsuk [http://www.betweenpageandscreen.com]
Bad Nudes [http://badnudes.com]
Laurel Halo and Hatsune Miku [http://www.aft3r.us/still-be-here/]] and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aap4eLlt2WI]
Solitude by Martine Syms [https://www.canopycanopycanopy.com/contents/solitude/#title-page]
Dissolution of the Sovereign… by Elysia Crampton [https://soundcloud.com/eande/dissolution-of-the-sovereign-a-time-slide-or-a-non-abled-offenders-exercise-in-jurisprudence]
Glass press [http://www.glasspressofthefuture.com/about]

KU- Instagram
'''Critical Readings:''' What is Instagram and Why is it so Popular [https://ischool.syr.edu/infospace/2011/12/15/what-is-instagram-and-why-is-it-so-popular/]
Instagram Influences Creative Work [https://www.warc.com/NewsAndOpinion/News/35288?]
'''Creative Works:''' Instagram-Creative Workshop [https://www.instagram.com/creative_work_shop/] The 20 Most Creative Instagram Pages [http://www.lifehack.org/articles/productivity/the-20-most-creative-instagram-accounts-that-will-inspire-you.html]

CC

Spirit Surfing, Kevin Bewersdorf [http://veryinteractive.net/content/4-library/1-spirit-surfing/bewersdorf-spiritsurfing.pdf]
Screen. Image. Text., Orit Gat [http://rhizome.org/editorial/2012/may/16/screen-image-text/]
Jodi's Infrastructure, Alexander R. Galloway [http://www.e-flux.com/journal/74/59810/jodi-s-infrastructure/]

Live Simulations, Ian Cheng [http://iancheng.com/#simulations]
When all my friends are on at once [http://allmyfriendsatonce.com/]
Tripod Zoo by my dear friend Gabe Pine! [http://gabepine.com/]

J.K. -Interactive Fiction

Creative: "Choose Your Own Youtube Adventure!" [[http://elit.umwblogs.org/2014/02/01/on-visual-novels-one-in-particular/]]
Critical: "On Visual Novels, One in Particular" [[http://elit.umwblogs.org/2017/02/10/choose-your-own-youtube-adventure/]]

SK - Commenting on Comments

'''Critical''': Why Are YouTube Comments the Worst on the Internet [[https://www.newstatesman.com/science-tech/internet/2016/10/why-are-youtube-comments-worst-internet]]
'''Creative''': Rooster_86 [[https://www.reddit.com/r/HighQualityGifs/comments/77d9ou/the_predictable_threads_are_driving_me_insane/#bottom-comments]]

LY- GIFS
'''Critical Readings:''' Fast, Cheap, and Good: Why Animated GIFs Engage Us [http://delivery.acm.org/10.1145/2860000/2858532/p575-bakhshi.pdf?ip=131.179.61.143&id=2858532&acc=ACTIVE%20SERVICE&key=CA367851C7E3CE77%2E79535EF926D6BC05%2E4D4702B0C3E38B35%2E4D4702B0C3E38B35&CFID=999019442&CFTOKEN=72613616&__acm__=1509047554_4015bb14b1cc2a3313309d563bcf7be5]
How GIF Won the Internet [http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20170825-how-the-gif-won-the-internet]
'''Creative Works:''' The Story of Gif [http://thestoryofgif.com/]
Being An English Major as told by 'The Office' [https://www.theodysseyonline.com/english-major-told-office-gifs]
Classical Art as Gifs [https://www.boredpanda.com/classic-painting-gifs-kiszkiloszki/]
j.l. – interactive fiction
'''Critical Readings:''' Electronic Literature its Emerging Forms (by Dr. Dene Grigar) [[http://dtc-wsuv.org/elit/elit-loc/denes-curatorial-statement]]

'''Creative Works:''' r/nosleep ( [[https://www.reddit.com/r/nosleep/comments/78td1x/the_part_of_the_deep_web_that_we_arent_supposed/]]

SS - Critiques of The Internet via the Internet (or, Supreme Hypocrisy)

'''Critical Readings''': A conceptual and methodological critique of internet addiction research: Towards a model of compensatory internet use
[http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0747563213004093], On the Democratizing and De-Democratizing Logics of the Internet, or, toward a Critique of the New Technological Fetishism [http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/026327640201900110]

'''Creative Readings''': Screen-Free Parenting Facebook Group [https://www.facebook.com/screenfreeparenting/], "Pure Living for Life" Off-the-Grid YouTube personality/info channel [https://www.youtube.com/channel/UChhBsM9K_Bc9a_YTK7UUlnQ/videos], Digital Detox Twitter page [https://twitter.com/_DigitalDetox]

Alt Syllabus

2017-10-26T21:49:09Z

Witchybitchy:

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

UCLA 2017
ENGL 116B

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

----
SB Sultan -
Critical Reading: Gaming the Literary: On Video Games and Literature[[http://www.nymgamer.com/?p=12515]]
Darkness - Chapter 1, Yedda Morrison [[http://littleredleaves.com/ebooks/darkness.pdf]]

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]] [[http://elit.umwblogs.org/2017/02/10/choose-your-own-youtube-adventure/]]

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 (Ian Crouch) [https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/great-american-twitter-novel]
Twitter Fiction: Social Networking and Microfiction in 140 Characters (Carla Raguseo) [http://www.tesl-ej.org/wordpress/issues/volume13/ej52/ej52int/?iframe=true&width=80%&height=80%]
Neil Gaiman sets Twitter ablaze with fan collaboration (Laura Blackwell) [https://www.pcworld.com/article/2030776/neil-gaiman-sets-twitter-ablaze-with-fan-collaboration.html]
Neil Gaiman + Twitter = Interactive Storytelling (Barb Dybwab) [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 (Anne Charlton) [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]

H.A. - Tweet

""Critical Readings:"" A Literature Review On Twitter Data Analysis [http://www.ijcee.org/vol8/931-IT015.pdf]

""Creative Work"": Lonely Tweets :'( [https://lonelytweets.com/]

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]

BL-S - Vaporwave

'''Critical Readings:''' Do You Want Vaporwave, or Do You Want the Truth? [http://capaciousjournal.com/issue/capacious_vol-1_no-1_2017.pdf#page=70]

'''Creative Works:''' ff015 - t e l e p a t h テレパシー能力者 and Silver Richards - 夜遊び tape by freak friendly diy [https://freakfriendlydiy.bandcamp.com/album/ff015-t-e-l-e-p-a-t-h-and-silver-richards-tape]

RS- Materiality

'''Critical Readings:''' The Aesthetics of Materiality in Electronic Literature (Serge Bouchardon) [http://www.utc.fr/~bouchard/articles/Bouchardon-Bergen-materiality-2008.pdf]

'''Creative Works:''' Richard With Hair Doing Things (Richard MacDougall) [https://www.instagram.com/richardwithhairdoingthings/]

J.C. - Hypertext Fiction

'''Critical Readings:''' Reading Hypertext and the Experience of Literature (David S. Miall and Teresa Dobson) [https://journals.tdl.org/jodi/index.php/jodi/article/view/35/37]

'''Creative Works:''' 24 Hours (Philippa J Burne) [http://www.glasswings.com.au/GlassWings/modern/24hours/]
My Body - a Wunderkammer (Shelley Jackson) [http://collection.eliterature.org/1/works/jackson__my_body_a_wunderkammer.html]
Shade (Andrew Plotkin) [http://www.eblong.com/zarf/zweb/shade/]

DK - Interfaces

'''Critical Readings:''' "Race In/For Cyberspace: Identity Tourism and Racial Passing on the Internet" Lisa Nakamura [https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/3531/da9329d2b7158bd697e1aa8ef073f78de6fb.pdf]

'''Creative Works:''' Between Page and Screen by Amarunth Borsuk [http://www.betweenpageandscreen.com]
Bad Nudes [http://badnudes.com]
Laurel Halo and Hatsune Miku [http://www.aft3r.us/still-be-here/]] and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aap4eLlt2WI]
Solitude by Martine Syms [https://www.canopycanopycanopy.com/contents/solitude/#title-page]
Dissolution of the Sovereign… by Elysia Crampton [https://soundcloud.com/eande/dissolution-of-the-sovereign-a-time-slide-or-a-non-abled-offenders-exercise-in-jurisprudence]
Glass press [http://www.glasspressofthefuture.com/about]

KU- Instagram
'''Critical Readings:''' What is Instagram and Why is it so Popular [https://ischool.syr.edu/infospace/2011/12/15/what-is-instagram-and-why-is-it-so-popular/]
Instagram Influences Creative Work [https://www.warc.com/NewsAndOpinion/News/35288?]
'''Creative Works:''' Instagram-Creative Workshop [https://www.instagram.com/creative_work_shop/] The 20 Most Creative Instagram Pages [http://www.lifehack.org/articles/productivity/the-20-most-creative-instagram-accounts-that-will-inspire-you.html]

CC

Spirit Surfing, Kevin Bewersdorf [http://veryinteractive.net/content/4-library/1-spirit-surfing/bewersdorf-spiritsurfing.pdf]
Screen. Image. Text., Orit Gat [http://rhizome.org/editorial/2012/may/16/screen-image-text/]
Jodi's Infrastructure, Alexander R. Galloway [http://www.e-flux.com/journal/74/59810/jodi-s-infrastructure/]

Live Simulations, Ian Cheng [http://iancheng.com/#simulations]
When all my friends are on at once [http://allmyfriendsatonce.com/]
Tripod Zoo by my dear friend Gabe Pine! [http://gabepine.com/]

J.K. -Interactive Fiction

Creative: "Choose Your Own Youtube Adventure!" [[http://elit.umwblogs.org/2014/02/01/on-visual-novels-one-in-particular/]]
Critical: "On Visual Novels, One in Particular" [[http://elit.umwblogs.org/2017/02/10/choose-your-own-youtube-adventure/]]

SK - Commenting on Comments

'''Critical''': Why Are YouTube Comments the Worst on the Internet [[https://www.newstatesman.com/science-tech/internet/2016/10/why-are-youtube-comments-worst-internet]]
'''Creative''': Rooster_86 [[https://www.reddit.com/r/HighQualityGifs/comments/77d9ou/the_predictable_threads_are_driving_me_insane/#bottom-comments]]

LY- GIFS
'''Critical Readings:''' Fast, Cheap, and Good: Why Animated GIFs Engage Us [http://delivery.acm.org/10.1145/2860000/2858532/p575-bakhshi.pdf?ip=131.179.61.143&id=2858532&acc=ACTIVE%20SERVICE&key=CA367851C7E3CE77%2E79535EF926D6BC05%2E4D4702B0C3E38B35%2E4D4702B0C3E38B35&CFID=999019442&CFTOKEN=72613616&__acm__=1509047554_4015bb14b1cc2a3313309d563bcf7be5]
How GIF Won the Internet [http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20170825-how-the-gif-won-the-internet]
'''Creative Works:''' The Story of Gif [http://thestoryofgif.com/]
Being An English Major as told by 'The Office' [https://www.theodysseyonline.com/english-major-told-office-gifs]
Classical Art as Gifs [https://www.boredpanda.com/classic-painting-gifs-kiszkiloszki/]
j.l. – interactive fiction
'''Critical Readings:''' Electronic Literature its Emerging Forms (by Dr. Dene Grigar) [[http://dtc-wsuv.org/elit/elit-loc/denes-curatorial-statement]]

'''Creative Works:''' r/nosleep ( [[https://www.reddit.com/r/nosleep/comments/78td1x/the_part_of_the_deep_web_that_we_arent_supposed/]]

SS - Critiques of The Internet via the Internet (or, Supreme Hypocrisy)

== '''Critical Readings''': A conceptual and methodological critique of internet addiction research: Towards a model of compensatory internet use [http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0747563213004093], On the Democratizing and De-Democratizing Logics of the Internet, or, toward a Critique of the New Technological Fetishism [http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/026327640201900110] ==

== '''Creative Readings''': Screen-Free Parenting Facebook Group [https://www.facebook.com/screenfreeparenting/], "Pure Living for Life" Off-the-Grid YouTube personality/info channel [https://www.youtube.com/channel/UChhBsM9K_Bc9a_YTK7UUlnQ/videos], Digital Detox Twitter page [https://twitter.com/_DigitalDetox] ==

Alt Syllabus

2017-10-26T21:48:19Z

Witchybitchy:

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

UCLA 2017
ENGL 116B

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

----
SB Sultan -
Critical Reading: Gaming the Literary: On Video Games and Literature[[http://www.nymgamer.com/?p=12515]]
Darkness - Chapter 1, Yedda Morrison [[http://littleredleaves.com/ebooks/darkness.pdf]]

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]] [[http://elit.umwblogs.org/2017/02/10/choose-your-own-youtube-adventure/]]

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 (Ian Crouch) [https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/great-american-twitter-novel]
Twitter Fiction: Social Networking and Microfiction in 140 Characters (Carla Raguseo) [http://www.tesl-ej.org/wordpress/issues/volume13/ej52/ej52int/?iframe=true&width=80%&height=80%]
Neil Gaiman sets Twitter ablaze with fan collaboration (Laura Blackwell) [https://www.pcworld.com/article/2030776/neil-gaiman-sets-twitter-ablaze-with-fan-collaboration.html]
Neil Gaiman + Twitter = Interactive Storytelling (Barb Dybwab) [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 (Anne Charlton) [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]

H.A. - Tweet

""Critical Readings:"" A Literature Review On Twitter Data Analysis [http://www.ijcee.org/vol8/931-IT015.pdf]

""Creative Work"": Lonely Tweets :'( [https://lonelytweets.com/]

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]

BL-S - Vaporwave

'''Critical Readings:''' Do You Want Vaporwave, or Do You Want the Truth? [http://capaciousjournal.com/issue/capacious_vol-1_no-1_2017.pdf#page=70]

'''Creative Works:''' ff015 - t e l e p a t h テレパシー能力者 and Silver Richards - 夜遊び tape by freak friendly diy [https://freakfriendlydiy.bandcamp.com/album/ff015-t-e-l-e-p-a-t-h-and-silver-richards-tape]

RS- Materiality

'''Critical Readings:''' The Aesthetics of Materiality in Electronic Literature (Serge Bouchardon) [http://www.utc.fr/~bouchard/articles/Bouchardon-Bergen-materiality-2008.pdf]

'''Creative Works:''' Richard With Hair Doing Things (Richard MacDougall) [https://www.instagram.com/richardwithhairdoingthings/]

J.C. - Hypertext Fiction

'''Critical Readings:''' Reading Hypertext and the Experience of Literature (David S. Miall and Teresa Dobson) [https://journals.tdl.org/jodi/index.php/jodi/article/view/35/37]

'''Creative Works:''' 24 Hours (Philippa J Burne) [http://www.glasswings.com.au/GlassWings/modern/24hours/]
My Body - a Wunderkammer (Shelley Jackson) [http://collection.eliterature.org/1/works/jackson__my_body_a_wunderkammer.html]
Shade (Andrew Plotkin) [http://www.eblong.com/zarf/zweb/shade/]

DK - Interfaces

'''Critical Readings:''' "Race In/For Cyberspace: Identity Tourism and Racial Passing on the Internet" Lisa Nakamura [https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/3531/da9329d2b7158bd697e1aa8ef073f78de6fb.pdf]

'''Creative Works:''' Between Page and Screen by Amarunth Borsuk [http://www.betweenpageandscreen.com]
Bad Nudes [http://badnudes.com]
Laurel Halo and Hatsune Miku [http://www.aft3r.us/still-be-here/]] and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aap4eLlt2WI]
Solitude by Martine Syms [https://www.canopycanopycanopy.com/contents/solitude/#title-page]
Dissolution of the Sovereign… by Elysia Crampton [https://soundcloud.com/eande/dissolution-of-the-sovereign-a-time-slide-or-a-non-abled-offenders-exercise-in-jurisprudence]
Glass press [http://www.glasspressofthefuture.com/about]

KU- Instagram
'''Critical Readings:''' What is Instagram and Why is it so Popular [https://ischool.syr.edu/infospace/2011/12/15/what-is-instagram-and-why-is-it-so-popular/]
Instagram Influences Creative Work [https://www.warc.com/NewsAndOpinion/News/35288?]
'''Creative Works:''' Instagram-Creative Workshop [https://www.instagram.com/creative_work_shop/] The 20 Most Creative Instagram Pages [http://www.lifehack.org/articles/productivity/the-20-most-creative-instagram-accounts-that-will-inspire-you.html]

CC

Spirit Surfing, Kevin Bewersdorf [http://veryinteractive.net/content/4-library/1-spirit-surfing/bewersdorf-spiritsurfing.pdf]
Screen. Image. Text., Orit Gat [http://rhizome.org/editorial/2012/may/16/screen-image-text/]
Jodi's Infrastructure, Alexander R. Galloway [http://www.e-flux.com/journal/74/59810/jodi-s-infrastructure/]

Live Simulations, Ian Cheng [http://iancheng.com/#simulations]
When all my friends are on at once [http://allmyfriendsatonce.com/]
Tripod Zoo by my dear friend Gabe Pine! [http://gabepine.com/]

J.K. -Interactive Fiction

Creative: "Choose Your Own Youtube Adventure!" [[http://elit.umwblogs.org/2014/02/01/on-visual-novels-one-in-particular/]]
Critical: "On Visual Novels, One in Particular" [[http://elit.umwblogs.org/2017/02/10/choose-your-own-youtube-adventure/]]

SK - Commenting on Comments

'''Critical''': Why Are YouTube Comments the Worst on the Internet [[https://www.newstatesman.com/science-tech/internet/2016/10/why-are-youtube-comments-worst-internet]]
'''Creative''': Rooster_86 [[https://www.reddit.com/r/HighQualityGifs/comments/77d9ou/the_predictable_threads_are_driving_me_insane/#bottom-comments]]

LY- GIFS
'''Critical Readings:''' Fast, Cheap, and Good: Why Animated GIFs Engage Us [http://delivery.acm.org/10.1145/2860000/2858532/p575-bakhshi.pdf?ip=131.179.61.143&id=2858532&acc=ACTIVE%20SERVICE&key=CA367851C7E3CE77%2E79535EF926D6BC05%2E4D4702B0C3E38B35%2E4D4702B0C3E38B35&CFID=999019442&CFTOKEN=72613616&__acm__=1509047554_4015bb14b1cc2a3313309d563bcf7be5]
How GIF Won the Internet [http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20170825-how-the-gif-won-the-internet]
'''Creative Works:''' The Story of Gif [http://thestoryofgif.com/]
Being An English Major as told by 'The Office' [https://www.theodysseyonline.com/english-major-told-office-gifs]
Classical Art as Gifs [https://www.boredpanda.com/classic-painting-gifs-kiszkiloszki/]
j.l. – interactive fiction
'''Critical Readings:''' Electronic Literature its Emerging Forms (by Dr. Dene Grigar) [[http://dtc-wsuv.org/elit/elit-loc/denes-curatorial-statement]]

'''Creative Works:''' r/nosleep ( [[https://www.reddit.com/r/nosleep/comments/78td1x/the_part_of_the_deep_web_that_we_arent_supposed/]]

SS - Critiques of The Internet via the Internet (or, Supreme Hypocrisy)

== '''Critical Readings''': A conceptual and methodological critique of internet addiction research: Towards a model of compensatory internet use [http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0747563213004093], On the Democratizing and De-Democratizing Logics of the Internet, or, toward a Critique of the New Technological Fetishism [http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/026327640201900110]
'''Creative Readings''': Screen-Free Parenting Facebook Group [https://www.facebook.com/screenfreeparenting/], "Pure Living for Life" Off-the-Grid YouTube personality/info channel [https://www.youtube.com/channel/UChhBsM9K_Bc9a_YTK7UUlnQ/videos], Digital Detox Twitter page [https://twitter.com/_DigitalDetox]==

Development

2017-10-24T21:09:24Z

Witchybitchy:

Exploration of the Library of Babel and its vast amounts of gibberish solidified my interpretation of N. Katherine Hayle's introduction to "A Context for Electronic Literature." The scenario's Brother Paul was outraged at the spread of print literature because the value of writing would be compromised and any common person could create "commonplace scribbling." At first glance this seemed rather elitist, and my initial response upon completion of the passage was to think of all the amazing works of literature that have come from the common man. I immediately dismissed Brother Paul's outrage, but upon browsing the Library of Babel I began to see his point. If we just let any [[random work]] created on the internet be deemed literature, might not the quality of literature as we know it be lowered just as Brother Paul feared. It was only after reading lines of gibberish from the Library of Babel that I felt Brother Paul's fears regarding the development and [[progression]] of literature, whether in written, print, or electronic forms. However, Hayle's story was also what prevented me from dismissing the Library of Babel altogether. While it is true that mounds of gibberish can be created from allowing programs to create "literature," it is also highly possible for works just as, if not more, amazing that [[current]] works to stem from electronic literature as well. Such was the case for print literature; thus, I have great expectations for the [[future]] and development of e-lit.

==See also==
*[[creative]]
*[[meaning]]

Neutrality

2017-10-24T21:08:10Z

Witchybitchy:

"If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor." - Desmond Tutu

Quite ironically, the word neutrality brings up a lot of inner turmoil within me, no matter how intensely or dejectedly I may be thinking about whatever it is I'm focusing on when I encounter the word. One of my favorite quotes of all time, shared above, utilizes the word while making social commentary about life. And given that it's one of the quotes I hold quite close to me, I've come to attach quite a bit of meaning to the word.

Neutrality implies impartiality, a lack of decisive opinions on something, and a lack of support for any sides of an argument. At first glance, this may seem like quite a peaceful concept, given that not partaking in something means that there's no responsibility regardless of whether it's a good thing or a bad thing. However, the implications for such a state such as neutrality mean a lot more when applying them to life. People struggle to remain neutral on matters. No matter what it may be, from pockets on women's clothing to racism in the workforce, there's always strong opinions for the multitudes of opinions that stem from such issues. This is because neutrality is idealistically detached from reality.

It is meant to be seen as a safe concept given that it implies no ties to anything, yet its very existence is based on the idea of privilege. To be neutral on an issue one has to be able to be both unaffected by it and uninvolved, something that usually becomes especially tedious when focusing on social issues. People who are affected do not have the privilege of staying uninvolved or not care. That was the case with Adrian Piper, who had to develop calling cards in order to get her opinion across on issues that affected her. And of course, the fact that they affected her were ultimately out of her control, given that she could not just ignore the injustices she faced as both half-black and a woman.

The problem wasn't that she cared too much, it was that she couldn't not care. Many of the issues brought forth were direct attacks on her and inherently ignorant in nature, which made it nearly impossible for her to deem them socially acceptable. But of course, many white or male individuals, or both, were clearly unaffected and unconcerned. This wasn't because they had thicker skin... it was because they had the privilege of not being directly affected by it. After all, the ignorant statements Piper overheard or directly received about black individuals and women didn't concern them and didn't harm them in any way.

Because of all of this, I've grown to dislike neutrality, at least when referring to people's mentalities and its many variations in relation to life. Perhaps it's a bit excessive to dislike a word based on association, but the nature of the word is dismissive and unnecessary, much like those who choose to remain neutral on issues just because they can. It's quite tragic that there are people who can be in power and somehow believe that they can remain neutral on social issues to save face, or because they simply don't care. Because they don't have to care, that's a choice they have.

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Dear President,
If you don't care, then you don't care. And that's it. If I don't care,
I'm risking my very life and the freedoms granted to me, and most I hold
dear, by those who bravely and tirelessly fought for them long before me.
Who fought tooth and nail. Through sweat and tears. With their very lives.
I regret any discomfort this fact may cause you, just as I am sure you
regret the discomfort your neutrality and ignorance is causing me.
P.S. There are no good nazis.

==See also==
*[[disheartening]]
*[[truth]]

Beautiful

2017-10-24T04:53:18Z

Witchybitchy: Created page with "You're beautiful. I love you. Be my boyfriend. A life together. I love you. I forgive you. You're not '''fat''' honey. I bet you make babies smile. I like your style. You have..."

You're beautiful. I love you. Be my boyfriend. A life together. I love you. I forgive you. You're not '''fat''' honey. I bet you make babies smile. I like your style. You have the best laugh. I appreciate you. I'm so proud of us. I want to '''fuck''' you. I want to make love to you.

I admire your military career. '''I''' like the way you dress. Your enemies must '''hate''' you for being so perfect. But I don't. I love you. You smile so bright. I feel like my best sef around '''you'''. You're awesome. Marry me. Children, travelling. Disneyland.

I would never leave you. I'll always love you. 10 years. You're my darling. I love you. '''I'm''' yours. You look like a summer's eve. I trust you with my life. I like '''leaving''' the house after you so I can look at your butt. You're my hero. You're a wonderful parent. I love you. I love you. I love '''you'''.

Congraulations! You've won! Congraulations! You've won! Congraulations! You've won! Congraulations! You've won! Congraulations! You've won! Congraulations! You've won! Congraulations! You've won! Congraulations! You've won! Congraulations! You've won! Congraulations! You've won!

Consoles

2017-10-24T04:36:06Z

Witchybitchy:

A video game console is an electronic, digital or computer device that outputs a video signal or visual image to display a video game that one or more people can play. After being exposed to and enthralled by Alejandro Miguel Justino Crawford's ''Diana Hamilton's Dreams,'' I was reminded of a 2017 South African video game, ''n Verlore Verstand,'' that is accessible on several different consoles such as Xbox One, Playstation 4, and PC. Developed by Skobbejak Games, '''n Verlore Verstand'' is Afrikaans for "a lost mind," and this sense of unhinged madness is the very essence of the game. As ''Diana Hamilton's Dreams'' attempts to unlock the subconscious and 'approach the truth of dreams...through the navigation and connection and layering of sounds and stories that, half-recognized, slip away when we try to tie them down...' (Kill Screen), ''n Verlore Verstand'' similarly seeks to journey through an uncanny, subterranean consciousness, one that falls outside of our immediate focal awareness. While gameplay varies across the different levels/worlds, from walking through barren and desolate fields to navigating murky and dungeon-like labyrinthine corridors, the fundamental theme is this realm of the unknown. Here, the player must navigate through networks of broken and distant memories in order to unlock the [[truth]].
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''Diana Hamilton's Dreams'' is not just a collection of poems in the form of a game, but is itself a poem as ''n Verlore Verstand'' functions as its own set of [[beautiful]] images and sounds. Both games have a type of 'literary aspect' and essentially fracture all preexisting knowledge of what constitutes 'literature' in general. Video games such as these access something about us that words on a page cannot do, perhaps due to their overload of sensory information, cognitively demanding environments, and other reasons I am still trying to figure out...

History

2017-10-17T03:25:25Z

Witchybitchy: Created page with "Japan is an island by the sea filled with volcanoes and it's ♪♫ beautiful ♫♪. In the year negative a billion, Japan might not have been here. In the year negative for..."

Japan is an island by the sea filled with volcanoes and it's ♪♫ beautiful ♫♪.

In the year negative a billion, Japan might not have been here. In the year negative forty thousand, it was here, and you could walk to it, and some people walked to it. Then it got warmer, some icebergs melted, it became an island, and now there's lots of ♫ trees ♫. Because it's warmer.

So now there's people on the island; they're basically sort of hanging out in between the mountains eating nuts off trees and using the latest technology. Like stones, and bowls.

Ding dong, it's the outside world, and they have technology from the future. Like really good metal, and ♪ crazy rice farms ♪. Now you can make a lot of rice really really quickly. That means if you own the farm, then you own a lot of food, which is something everybody needs to survvvvive. So that makes you king.

Rice farming and rice kingdoms spread all across the land, all the way to here. The most important kingdoms were here (Hi), here (Chikushi), here (Izumo), here (Kibi), here (Yamato), here (Koshi), and here (Kenu). But this one (Yamato) was the most most important, ruled by a heavenly superperson, or emperor for short.

Knock knock, get the door, it's religion. The new prince wants everyone to try this hot new religion 🎺🎺🎺 (Buddhism) from Baekje.
"Please try this religion," he said.
"No," said everybody.
"Try iiiiit," he said.
"no," said everybody again, quieter this time.
And so the religion was put into place and all the rules that came with it.

Then, the government was taken over by another clique (Taika). And they made some reforms , like making the government govern more, and making the government more like China's government, which is a government that governs more.
"Hi China," they said.
"Hi dipshit (wa, dwarf)," said China.
"Can you call us something else, other than dipshit?" said Japan.
"Like what?" said China.
♫♪"How about sunrise laaand?"♪♫ said Japan.
And they stole China's alphabet and wrote a book. About themselves! And then they made lots of poetry and art and another book about themselves.

Then they stopped moving the capital every time the emperor died and kept it in one place for a while, right here (Kyoto, Heian Palace). And they conquered the north finally, get that squared away.

A rich hipster named Kūkai is bored with modern Buddhism and visits China, learns a better version which is more ♫♪ spiritual ♪♫, comes back, reinvents the alphabet, and causes art and literature to be ♫♪ great ♪♫ for a long time. And the royal palace turned into such a dreamworld of art that they really didn't give a shit about running the country.

So if you live outside the palace, how are you supposed to protect your shit, from criminals? ♫♪ Hire a samurai. ♪♫ Everyone started hiring samurai. Rich important people hired samurai. Poor people who could not afford to hire samurai did not hire samurai. The samurai became organized and powerful, more powerful than the government. So they made their own military government, right here. They let the emperor still be emperor, but the shogun was actually in control.

Breaking news, the Mongols have invaded China.
"W̛e҉'ve i͟nv̕aded ̵Chi͠na̸," said the Mongols, "Pl͘e̶a̷se̵ ͝res͢p̛ȩc̷t u͢s҉,͜ or͜ el̕se w͞e ͟m̛igh͟t ͠i͝nvade͡ ̕y͜o̕u̕ ͡a͡s̕ ̡well̀.̢"
"Okay," said Japan.
So the Mongols came over, ready for war, and died in a tornadotyphoon. But they tried again, and had a nice time fighting with the Japanese, but then died in a tornadotyphoon.

Then the emperor overthrows the shogunate, then the shogunate overthrows him back and moves to Kyoto, and makes a new shogunate. And the emperor can still dress like an emperor if he wants, that's fine.

♫♪ Now there's more art. ♪♫
Like painting with less colors, collaborative poetry, plays, monkey fun, tea parties, gardening, architecture, flowers.

It's time for who's going to be the next shogun. Usually it's the shogun's kid, but the shogun doesn't have a kid. So he tries to get his brother to quit being a monk and be the next shogun. He says okay. But then the shogun has a kid. So now who's it gonna be? Vote now on your phones. And everyone voted so hard that the palace caught on fire and burned down. The shogun actually didn't care, he was off somewhere doing poetry. And the whole country broke into pieces. Everyone is fighting with each other for local power, and it's anybody's game.

Knock knock, it's Europe. No, they're not here to take over, they just wanna sell some shit. Like clocks, and guns, and ♫♪ Jesus ♪♫. So that's cool. But everyone's still fighting each other for control. Now with guns! And wouldn't it be nice to control the capital, which right now is puppets, with no one controlling them? This clan (Imagawa) is ready to make a run for it, but first they have to trample this smaller clan (Oda) which is in the way. Surprise, smaller clan wins! And the leader of that clan (Oda Nobunaga) steals the idea of invading the capital, and invades the capital. And it goes very well.

He's about halfway through conquering Japan when someone who works for him kills him, then someone else who works for him (Toyotomi Hideyoshi) kills them, and that guy finishes conquering Japan. And then he confiscated everybody's swords. And he made some rules.
"Ąnd͟ n͟ow I'̛m̶ goińg̡ to ͘inva͞d̨e ͝Kor͟e͡a,̵ an͝d͢ ̶the̴n h͜op̷ef̕ull͏y ̵Chin͢a̛," he said, and failed, and also died.
But before he died, he told these five guys to take care of his five year old son until he's old enough to be the next ruler of Japan. And the five guys said yeah right, it's not gonna be this kid, it's gonna be one of us. 'Cause we're grownups. And it's probably gonna be this guy (Tokugawa Ieyasu) who happens to be way more rich and powerful than the others.

A lot of people support him, but a lot of people (Ishida Mitsunari) support not supporting him. They have a fight, and he wins. And starts a new government, right here. ♫♪ Edo ♫♪ And he still lets the emperor dress like an emperor, and have very nice things. But don't get confused, this (Tokugawa family) is the new government. And they are very strict, so strict they close the country. No one can leave, and no one can come in. Except for the Dutch, if they wanna buy and sell shit, but they have to do it right here (Dejima).

Now that the entire country was not at war with itself, the population increased a lot. Business increased, schools were built, roads were built, everyone learned to read, books were published. There was poetry (haiku), plays (kabuki), sexytimes, puppet shows (bunraku), and Dutch studies. People started to study European science from books they bought from the Dutch. We're talking geography, skeletons, physics, chemistry, astronomy, and maybe even electricity.

Over time, the economic and cultural prosperity began to gradually slow do-
*impending doom music*
Knock knock. It's the United States. With huge boats. With guns. Gunboats.
"O͜pe͡ņ,̨ t͡he͏ ͘c̷o̷ưntry. ͠S̛t͜o̡p̛,̵ ҉ha͠v̀in͜g̷ i͝t̀ ͝be̴ ́clo͞sed.̢" said the United States.
*music ends*
There was really nothing they could do, so they signed a contract that lets United States, Britain, and Russia visit Japan anytime they want.

Chōshu and Satsuma hated this. "That sucks!" they said. "This sucks!!!"
And with almost very little outside help, (from Britain) they overthrew the shogunate. And somehow made the emperor the emperor again, and moved him to Edo, which they renamed eastern capital (Tokyo). They made a new government, which was a lot more Western. And they made a new constitution, which was.. pretty Western. And a military that was... pretty Western (large).

And do you know what else is Western? That's right, it's conquering stuff. So what can we conquer? Korea! They conquer Korea, taking it from its previous owner, China, and then go a little bit further (Liaodong Peninsula).
And Russia rushes in out of nowhere and says, "Stop no you can't do that we were gonna build a railroad through here to try to get some warm water." And Russia builds their railroad, supervised by a shitton of soldiers. Then, when the railroad was done, they downgraded to a fuckton. Did I say downgrade? I meant upgrade.
And Japan says, "Can you maybe chill?"
And Russia says, "How 'bout maybe you chill?"

Japan is kind of scared of Russia. You'll never guess who's also kind of scared of Russia. Great Britain! So Japan and Great Britain make an alliance together so they can be a little less scared of Russia. Feeling confident, Japan goes to war against Russia, but just for a moment, and then they both get tired and stop.

♫♪ It's time for World War I ♪♫
The world is about to have a war. Because it's the 1900s, and weapons are getting crazy, and all these empires are excited to try them out on each other. Meanwhile, Japan has been enjoying conquering stuff and wants m̵͡͝͝o͏̨̨̢͢o͏͏̵̧̕ơ̢̢͜͜o͠͏͢ó͘o̶̢̧ó̷͝͠o͝͡o̧͘r̨̢̕ȩ̸ and the next thing on their list is this part of China (Qingdao) and lots of tiny islands.

All that stuff belongs to Germany, which just had war declared on by Britain, because Britain was friends with Belgium, who was being trespassed by Germany in order to get to France to kick France's ass because France was friends with Russia who was getting ready to kick Austria's ass because Austria was getting ready to kick Serbia's ass because someone from Serbia shot the leader of Austria's ass. Err, actually, he shot him in the head. And Britain is currently friends with Japan. So you know what that means, duhhh.

♫♪ Japan should take the islands. ♪♫ Which they wanted to do anyway. So they sort of called Britain on the tele(gram) to sort of let them know, and then they did it! And they also helped Britain here and there with some errands and stuff. *bell rings*

Now the war is over, and congratulations Japan, you technically fought in the war which means you get to sit at the negotiating table (Paris Peace Conference), with the big dudes, where they decided who owns what. And yes, Japan gets to keep all that shit they stole from Germany. And you also get to join the post-war mega alliance ♫♪ the League of Nations ♪♫ whose mission statement is to try not to take over the world.

The Great Depression is bad, and Japan's economy is now crappy. But the military is doing just fine, and it invades Manchuria. And the League of Nations is like ♪"No don't do that if you're in the League of Nations you're not supposed to try to take over the world."♪
And Japan said, ♫♪ How bout I do, anyway? ♪♫ And Japan invaded more and more and more of China, and was planning to invade the entire East.

You've got mail.
It's from Germany, the new leader of Germany, he has a cool mustache and is trying to take over the world and needs friends. This also got forwarded to Italy. They all decided to be friends because they had so much in common.

♫♪ It's time for World War II ♪♫
Germany is invading the neighbors, then they invade the neighbors' neighbors, then, the neighbor's neighbors' neighbors, who happen to be Britain, said "Holy shiiit" and the United States started helping Britain because they are ♫♪ good friends ♪♫ and started not helping Japan because ♫♪" Their friends and our friends are not friends. Plus they're planning on invaaading the entire ocean."♪♫

The United States is also working on a large, very huge bomb. Bigger than any other bomb, ever. Just in case (Germany). But they still haven't joined the war, war looks bad on TV, and the United States is really starting to care about their image.

But then Japan spits on them, in Hawai'i, and challenges them to war. And they say yes! And then Germany, as a symbol of friendship, declares war on the United States also. And they help the gang chase Germany back into Germany. And they also chase Japan back into Japan. And they haven't used the bomb yet, and are curious to see if it works, so they drop it on Japan.

They actually drop two.

(You win.)
The United States installed a new government, inspired by the United States government, with just the right ingredients for a ♫♪ post-war economic miracle ♪♫ and Japan starts making TVs, VCRs, automobiles, and camcorders as fast as they can. And also better than everybody else. They get rich, and the economy goes wild. But then the miracle wears off, but everything's still pretty cool I guess. ♪♫ Bye. ♫♪

Required

2017-10-17T03:23:33Z

Witchybitchy:

I am glad to have registered in this class during my final year at [[UCLA]]. Finally, a classroom without a pretentious vibe; students are genuinely intrigued and open to being creative. We are somewhat developing the class as we go, and being introduced to a new type of literature that I have never had previous interest in. I did not even know that the term "electronic literature" existed. Yes, Hayles give us an introduction to what type of pieces are considered electronic literature, but as it was mentioned in class: should this genre even be considered literature?
This type of question reminds me of the Modern Art course that I took many years ago, because that was also an introduction course full of students who had not studied Modern Art before. How were we supposed to determine what was art or not? Because an esteemed artist claimed it to be? Because it was trending? Because [[history]] said so?
Honestly, no one has the right to tell you what is and what is not art. If there is a connection between you and the piece, and you appreciate it solely for its beauty, emotional connection, creativity, or skill, then it certainly is art. Same goes with electronic literature – no one should be able to eliminate this genre. Regardless, this movement is unavoidable since we are extremely dependent on [[technology]].

Authority

2017-10-10T01:35:46Z

Witchybitchy: Created page with "Authority is often debated in the academia of English as it relates to an author's credibility and allowance to speak on a particular subject. However, according to Troemel, a..."

Authority is often debated in the academia of English as it relates to an author's credibility and allowance to speak on a particular subject. However, according to Troemel, art as it exists on social media loses authorship - but does it lose authority? For example the following image once popularly circulated the internet, captioned as a standard of "Perfect Woman in the 1950s," often accompanied by a tag line to the tune of "Let's get back to THIS!" [http://wafflesatnoon.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/time-1955.jpg] However, the source of this image later came to light as a modern (2011) pornstar posing for a retro-inspired photoshoot. Artists online, fearful of losing credit for their work, often watermark their posts or tag them with directions to their followers to provide source-credit when reposting elsewhere. A commonly loathed frame is "Credit to the original artist!" which fails to actually ''give'' credit to the unknown artist. The concern raised by these observations of questionable authority over a work of internet-based art is that no one really knows ''who'' has authority. Is it "fake news"? One troll in a comment section may say so, and immediately destroy the authority of everyone before them. In an anonymous platform, every commenter carries the same level of authority. Social media, minus verified users and public celebrities, has effectually created a classist society. Similar to the communist Soviet Union, and thanks to trolls and hackers, no one can be sure of who to trust as authority on the internet, and we must simply accept that as a Term of Use.

Developed

2017-10-10T01:11:21Z

Witchybitchy:

The readings that stood out to me the most for the week were the first two: “The Library of Babel” and “Electronic Literature: What Is It?”. “Electronic Literature: What Is It?” was written very well, but it was odd reading about a subject that is so subjective in such an objective matter. Not to discredit Hayles in any way, but I think that perhaps the way she describes electronic literature comes off as a bit "cold." It's hard to specify what exactly I mean by this, but one way I can describe it is that, if I had read what she wrote having had no experience at all with E-lit, I'm not sure I would be as interested as I am having had the introduction presented by Prof. Snelson. No doubt, Hayles knows what she is talking about; but her position as an ultimate [[authority]] is a bit off-putting. As for “The Library of Babel”, well, to be frank; it blew my mind. It's crazy to me just how many possible combinations of words are out there, and that theoretically, anything that can or will be said might be found in the The Library of Babel. What also struck me is the librarians. They made me realize just how desperate human beings can become striving to discover [[meaning]], reason, and purpose in our lives. It is perhaps impossible for our minds to try and accept that anything might be without all three of those properties.

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2017-10-05T05:12:35Z

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"I" is a first-person singular pronoun meant to refer to oneself, typically the individual that is speaking. However, "I" has been used in myriad ways by cultural pioneers wishing to use it to convey a different meaning. The word "I" is an English translation of the singular first-person, which is also present and widely used in virtually every extant language, according to greasy male japanophiles on reddit. It has nearly infinite definitions as its meaning is mutable dependant on the context in which it is used. Each unique person who utters a translatio of the word "I" has created a new definition, and as humans are never stagnant creatures, so neither is the definintio of the word "I." The word "I" featured prominently as a heretical word in Ayn Rand's ''Anthem'', in which a highly collectivist society has replaced "I" with the plural "we," and the main character must grapple with his understanding of what he terms "Ego," a latin word meaning "I."

== Uses ==

“It was times like these when I thought my father, who hated guns and had never been to any wars, was the bravest man who ever lived.” - To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

“I cannot but conclude that the Bulk of your Natives, to be the most pernicious Race of little odious Vermin that Nature ever suffered to crawl upon the Surface of the Earth.” - Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift

“I could not unlove him now, merely because I found that he had ceased to notice me.” - Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë

“And I like large parties. They’re so intimate. At small parties there isn’t any privacy.” - The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

셋샤 (拙者)

Ich liebe dich. - 나는 너를 사랑한다.

Rufen Sie mich an. - 저에게 전화하세요. (anrufen(전화하다)은 4격 지배동사. 한국어와 독일어의 격을 비슷하게 맞춰서 번역하자면 '저를 전화로 불러 주세요.')

Gib mir das Buch. - 그 책 나에게 줘.

Du hilfst ihm. - 너는 그를 돕는다. (helfen(돕다)은 3격 지배동사. 역시 격을 비슷하게 맞춰 번역하면 '너는 그에게 도움을 준다.')

Er arbeitet statt meiner.

Je m'appelle La Salope.

== The Greasy Men ==

02-07-2004, 02:40 AM
a related issue:
Does anybody here know Japanese? (I sure don't!) . But I once heard that in Japanese it is considered impolite to use the word "I". Instead of saying "I drove the car", Japanese uses the passive "the car was driven by me"

This was in some article I once read about the difficulties American businessmen had with Japanese culture. The point was that the Japanese value polite cooperation, not competition-while Amercans are the opposite. Even their language stresses the un-importance of the individual as a passive observer, not active do-er.

But even if it is true, it doesnt account for the Jap's long history of ferocity in combat from the Samurai through WWII. So I doubt if human nature is much affected by any specific language,where use of the first person may or may not be considered "egotism"
excaudate
02-07-2004, 02:53 AM
linguists*

anyway i thinkt he sapir-whorf thesis said something about humn nature and language. this is more of a bump than anything.
gluteus maximus
02-07-2004, 02:59 AM
Japanese has several forms of the first person pronoun; watashi (standard 'I'), watakutashi (formal 'I'), atashi (feminine 'I'), boku (masculine 'I'), ore (vulgar 'I'), and temae (humble 'I'), but in spoken Japanese, it is common to omit pronouns, except when necessary for clarity.

More info... (http://www.cic.sfu.ca/tqj/GettingRight/pronouns.html)

Be careful about applying psychological/sociological/cultural assumptions to differences in language. Sometimes, that's just how we/they say it.

It's common in Japanese to omit the subject of a sentence, whether it's a proper name, pronoun, or common noun, if the subject is obvious to the listener.
gluteus maximus
02-07-2004, 04:38 AM
As for the OP's question...

I've been Googling, but so far haven't come across any references to human languages without first-person pronouns.

If there is/were such a language, though, how does/would a speaker refer to itself?

One way would be, uh, 'Gollum-speak', perhaps, but one could argue that 'my Precious' is really a first-person pronoun.

One could always use 'one' in place of the missing 'I'... rather vague, though.

The speaker could merely use their own name instead of a first-person pronoun.

English: I want to hold your hand.
Japanese: Want to hold hands.
Gollum-speak: My Precious wants to hold its handsesesessss.
Vaguelish: One wants to hold another one's hand.
NoEgolese: gluteus maximus wants to hold (Name's) hand.

Of course, in translation, we'd adjust everything to make sense from our own linguistic point of view, so we'd probably just insert 'I', where necessary.
xejkh
02-07-2004, 10:31 AM
a related issue:
Does anybody here know Japanese? (I sure don't!) . But I once heard that in Japanese it is considered impolite to use the word "I". Instead of saying "I drove the car", Japanese uses the passive "the car was driven by me"

Never heard of Japanese using the passive for the sake of politeness. (I studied Japanese) If there was the need to be polite the Japanese would use either the "humble" forms of verbs and nouns, when referring to themselves and their actions (eg mairu instead of kuru, come), or the honorific for the actions of other people (eg irassharu for iku go, kuru come, iru be).
coffeecat
02-07-2004, 11:07 AM
What do you use ore for? I'm imagining something like, "Hey dude! Ivulgar may be a ho, but yourvulgar mama's a bigger ho!"
gluteus maximus
02-07-2004, 11:21 AM
Well, that's not too far off, semantically.

I guess I should have typed 'rough' or 'rude' or 'unrefined' instead of 'vulgar', since 'vulgar' in English is a bit different than 'vulgar' in Japanese.

Let's put it this way; ore is used between men in manly situations...

A Japanese man isn't likely to say ore when speaking to a woman, but he'll say ore when he wants to appear tough when speaking to a man.
emekthian
02-07-2004, 11:35 AM
Do you count constructed languages? If so, see Elkaril (http://www.zompist.com/elkaril.htm#Assignment).

There are probably real-world languages without "I", but I can't think of any.
Johanna
02-07-2004, 05:09 PM
In Korean, somehow they leave out both the subject pronoun and the object pronoun, and just say the verb alone.

For example, to say "I love you," Koreans would just say Sarang haeyo. This is nothing but the verb 'love' in the active present tense, meaning (somebody) loves (somebody). Korean verbs, like Japanese verbs, are not conjugated for person or number. How the Koreans are supposed to understand that Sarang haeyo means specifically 'I love you" instead of "Fibber McGee loves Molly" is a mystery to me.

Korean does have first and second person pronouns, but for some reason they prefer not to use them. You could put them into the example sentence to make it say explicitly "I love you" : Nae-ga no-rul sarang haeyo. In which na means 'I' and no means 'you'. Although this sentence is correct according to the rules of Korean grammar, for some reason they don't talk like this.

In Malay they have lots of different personal pronouns for the 1st and 2nd person, but they don't use them as much. Instead, they substitute words that tell the position or relationship of the speaker and the addressee. For example, a child speaking to a parent will substitute his name for 'I' and "Mom" or "Dad" for 'you'. A parent speaking to a child will say "Mom" or "Dad" instead of "I" and use the child's name instead of "you." A student speaking to a professor will say "student" instead of "I" and "Professor" instead of "you." And so on. Since the verbs are not inflected for person or number, it works the same either way.
ShibbOleth
02-07-2004, 05:31 PM
In spoken Thai the first person is often omitted. And they don't really use auxillary verbs much, anyway (in spoken form). So "I am going shopping" just becomes "going shopping". "I am hungry" is just "hungry". But it's not something you can't do in the language, it's just not really spoken that way since it's apparent it's the speaker who is going shopping or who is hungry. If it were a question, "Are you hungry?" there is a question word added so that there is no doubt, sort of like "Hungry, no?"
Broomstick
02-07-2004, 06:57 PM
Samuel R. Delany in the novel Babel-17 used an artificial language with no first-person as an important plot device (the language being "Babel-17"). But I've never heard of an actual language, natural or artificial, entirely omitting the first person
robo99
02-08-2004, 12:28 AM
In spoken Thai the first person is often omitted. And they don't really use auxillary verbs much, anyway (in spoken form). So "I am going shopping" just becomes "going shopping". "I am hungry" is just "hungry". But it's not something you can't do in the language, it's just not really spoken that way since it's apparent it's the speaker who is going shopping or who is hungry. If it were a question, "Are you hungry?" there is a question word added so that there is no doubt, sort of like "Hungry, no?"

Well English is kinda like this now. People will say "I'm going shopping" but the "I'm" part can nearly disappear depending on how it's said so that you really only hear "going shopping". There's only a little vowel inflection before "going".
jovan
02-08-2004, 03:17 AM
Never heard of Japanese using the passive for the sake of politeness.
The passive form is used more often in polite speech. For instance, "Mr. Tanaka came" can be said:
Tanaka-san ni koraremashita.
Here, "koraremashita" is the passive form of "kuru" (to come). It's more polite than simply:
Tanaka-san ga kimashita.

The various personal pronouns in Japanese are like clothes. You wear different ones for different occasions. I disagree that "ore" wouldn't be used by someone talking to a woman - I hear (and use) it all the time. It is, however, rough and masculine. You use "ore" when you want to avoid either the boyish undertones of "boku", the relative formality of "watashi", or when you don't want to pass for an old fart with "washi". It certainly doesn't need to be vulgar like coffecat's example.

One of the most classic examples of personal pronouns in Japanese is the title of Soseki Natsume's masterpiece: "Wagahai wa neko dearu". In English this is, and can only be, translated as: "I am a cat". This translation completely fails to convey the ridiculously pompous undertones of "wagahai".

In languages like Japanese, the very concept of "person" does not make as much sense as in English. In English's basic SVO structure, the relationship of the subject to the speaker is very important. However, the structure of Japanese is theme-complement-verb. (At least according to followers of Akira Mikami.) Subject is relegated to mere complement and is not of central importance. As such, the concept of "person" is not very important, or useful when talking about Japanese grammar.

One of my Japanese teachers remarked that in French, it's not uncommon for people to specify three times the subject in a sentence. "Moi je mange du sushi." "I eat sushi." "I" is specified by the pronoun "je", emphasized by the addition of "moi" and further indicated by the conjugation of the verb "manger". In Japanese, you'd just say "sushi wo taberu."

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