Editing Alt Syllabus

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

UCLA 2017
ENGL 116B

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

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RP ~ YouTube Vids and Views

                      '''Critical Readings:''' I Cheated YouTube for 5 Months and Finally got Caught [[https://www.dailydot.com/business/youtube-buy-fake-views-deleted/]]

                      '''Creative Works:'''   "The Chase" Interactive Video [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KFsv8tGHkHY]]

SB Sultan  -
Critical Reading: Gaming the Literary: On Video Games and Literature[[http://www.nymgamer.com/?p=12515]]
Creative Work: 100 Funny Video Game Memes [[https://www.gamedesigning.org/video-game-memes/]]

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

AW - Human + AI Fiction
                      '''Critical Readings :''' Matt O'Brien, "Think AI Is Scary Already? This Software Writes its Own Horror Stories" [[http://time.com/5002404/mit-shelley-ai-bot-horror-stories/]]  AI + humans = really weird horror fiction.

                      '''Creative Works :''' MIT's Shelley AI generator [[http://shelley.ai/]] Read created stories here: [[http://stories.shelley.ai/]]



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 and Storytelling

                      '''Critical Readings:''' 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]
                      Twitter Fiction: A Shift in Author Function (Hilary Hyman) [http://discoverarchive.vanderbilt.edu/handle/1803/8205]
                      Wreading Essays (Charles Bernstein) [http://writing.upenn.edu/bernstein/syllabi/readings/Bernstein-Charles_Pedagogy-essays.pdf ]
                      Immediacy, Hypermediacy, Remediation (Jay Bolter & Richard Grusin) [https://monoskop.org/images/a/ae/Bolter_Jay_David_Grusin_Richard_Remediation_Understanding_New_Media_low_quality.pdf]
                      Notes towards a Deformed Humanities (Mark Sample) [http://www.samplereality.com/2012/05/02/notes-towards-a-deformed-humanities/ ]

                      
                      '''Creative Works:'''A Calendar of Tales by Neil Gaiman [http://www.acalendaroftales.com/uploads/files/COT_E_BOOK.pdf]
                      Various tweets by Gaiman and his followers, one example linked here [https://twitter.com/neilhimself/status/298477234786816000]
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/]


AW - Videogame Design
                      '''Critical Readings:''' Maria Garda, "Nostalgia in Retro Game Design" [[http://www.digra.org/wp-content/uploads/digital-library/paper_310.pdf]]
                      Bryant David Thomas "New Retro: An Exploration of Modern Video Games With A Retro Aesthetic" [[https://etd.ohiolink.edu/!etd.send_file?accession=miami1493401505332341&disposition=inline]]
                      '''Creative Works:''' Cuphead [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iMkCIdGikmk]] Actual game available on STEAM [[http://store.steampowered.com/app/268910/Cuphead/]]



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]]

AH - Translating Electronic Literature
         '''Critical Readings:''' Translating Electronic Literature [[https://periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/textodigital/article/view/.../0]]

         '''Creative Work:''' Amore de Clarice [[http://www.elevenkosmos.net/tallerFlash/amor2/]]


AW - ARGs
                      '''Critical Readings:''' Jeff Watson, "Games Beyond the ARG" [[https://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=cYo3DgAAQBAJ&oi=fnd&pg=PA187&dq=alternate+reality+games+arg&ots=49MH4sM4iI&sig=DrzosSa3M0ZC1cV7rxYArWtQ0MM#v=onepage&q=alternate%20reality%20games%20arg&f=false]]
                      Michael Anderson "The Optimist" Draws Fans Into Fictionalized Disney History" [[https://www.wired.com/2013/07/disney-the-optimist-arg/]]
                      "Inside The Optimist: Solving Disney’s alternate reality game – What We Know" [[http://www.insidethemagic.net/inside-the-optimist-solving-disneys-alternate-reality-game-what-we-know/]]
                      Bryan Bishop "How Disney Imagineering revealed the secrets of Tomorrowland two years ago" [[https://www.theverge.com/2013/8/20/4639110/the-optimist-disney-imagineerings-push-to-bring-alternate-reality]]


egk

         '''Critical Reading:'''Game Studies: Narrative, Games, and and Theory [http://gamestudies.org/0701/articles/simons]
         '''Creative Reading:''' Depression Quest [http://www.depressionquest.com/dqfinal.html], The Matter of the Great Dragon [http://landsofdream.net/dragon.html], The Temple of No [https://crowscrowscrows.itch.io/the-temple-of-no]

AG - Memes 
        "'Critical Reading:'" The Rise of Memes as an Art Form [http://artzealous.com/the-rise-of-memes-as-an-art-form/]
                                      How to Run a Successful Meme Page [https://www.digitaltrends.com/social-media/how-to-make-your-own-meme/]
         "'Creative Work:'" Fuck Jerry [https://www.instagram.com/fuckjerry/?hl=en]
                                    UCLA Memes for Sick AF Tweens [https://www.facebook.com/groups/163576114113950/]

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msl. - Interactive Film
        '''Critical Readings:''' I-Docs: The Evolving Practices of Interactive Documentary by Ben Moskowitz, Chapter 12: https://goo.gl/Di3HrE

        '''Creative Work:''' Arcade Fire, The Wilderness Downtown: http://www.thewildernessdowntown.com/ (An interactive film by Chris Milk) If the link doesn't work, watch here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrnn_ccnVPI,
People Walking (part 1), https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XOSTHbXDaTE 




<div id="Evil–Dead–Haunted–Zombie Media">dss</div> - [[#Evil–Dead–Haunted–Zombie Media]]


        '''Critical Readings:'''  Bruce Sterling, Dead Media Manifesto [[http://www.alamut.com/subj/artiface/deadMedia/dM_Manifesto.html]], Interview [[http://www.ctheory.net/articles.aspx?id=208]]

        Garnet Hertz and Jussi Parrika, “Zombie Media” [[http://mediaarchaeologylab.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/Zombie-media.pdf]]

        Matthew Fuller and Andrew Goffey, Evil Media, “Introduction” [[http://dss-edit.com/nupod/src/Fuller,%20Matthew;%20Goffey,%20Andrew%20-%20Evil%20Media.pdf]]

        Jeffery Sconce, Haunted Media, Chapter 1: “Mediums and Media” [[https://monoskop.org/images/2/20/Sconce_Jeffrey_Haunted_Media_ch_1.pdf]]

        Friedrich Kittler, “Dracula’s Legacy” [[https://anybody.memoryoftheworld.org/Friedrich%20Kittler/Literature,%20Media,%20Information%20Systems%20%28841%29/Literature,%20Media,%20Information%20Systems%20-%20Friedrich%20Kittler.pdf]]



        '''Creative Readings:''' Garnet Hertz, A Collection of Many Problems (In Memory of The Dead Media Handbook) [[http://www.conceptlab.com/problems/]]

        Dead Media Catalog [[http://www.deadmedia.org/notes/index-cat.html]]

        Julius Nelson, Artyping [[https://loriemersondotnet.files.wordpress.com/2014/01/artyping.pdf]]

        Lorenzo Thomas, Dracula [[http://eclipsearchive.org/projects/DRACULA/html/pictures/001.html]]