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ALT INTRO TO E-LIT SYLLABUS

UCLA 2017 ENGL 116B

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

RP ~ YouTube Vids and Views

                     Critical Readings: I Cheated YouTube for 5 Months and Finally got Caught [[1]]

                     Creative Works:   "The Chase" Interactive Video [[2]]

SB Sultan - Critical Reading: Gaming the Literary: On Video Games and Literature[[3]] Darkness - Chapter 1, Yedda Morrison [[4]]

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

                     Critical Readings: Digital Poets: Can Social Media Save Poetry (Natalie Zfat) [[5]]; Hello 'Poetry' [[6]]

                     Creative Works:    Top 10 Poetic Tweets (LW Lundquist) [[7]]; Instagram: @poemsporn_ [[8]]

LR - Textualities and Interactive Fiction

Critical Readings : Nick Montfort "Riddle Machines: The History and Nature of Interactive Fiction" [[9]]

Creative Works : Stevens & Montfort [[10]] Personal Fav: Field of Dreams

QG ~ Writing in Electronic Age

                     Critical Readings: The End of Books (Robert Coover) [[11]]

                     Creative Works:   Screen (Noah Wardrip-Fruin, Josh Carroll, Robert Coover, et. al.) [[12]]

a.k. – interactive fiction

                     Critical Readings: Toward a Theory of Interactive Fiction (Nick Monfort)  [[13]]

                     Creative Works:   Photopia by Adam Cadre (1998) ( [[14]]

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

                     Critical Readings: One + One = Zero – Vanishing Text in Electronic Literature (Marjorie C. Luesebrink) [[15]] 
                     Vanishing Letters in Text-based Digital Installations (Janez Strehovec) [[16]]
   
                     
                     Creative Work: Share a secret – One Time [[17]]

I.B. - Interactive Fiction

                     Critical Work: Hyperrhiz: New Media Cultures (JENNIFER S. ROUDABUSH) [[18]]
                     
                     Creative Works: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Douglas Adams and Steve Meretzky) [[19]] [[20]]

TC- Fan Fiction

                    Critical Readings: Fan fiction, fandoms, and literature: or, why it’s time to pay attention to fan fiction (Christina Yatrakis) [[21]]

                    Creative Work: HEATHENS (--LJ--)  [[22]]

JR - Remediation

          "Critical Reading:" Emoji Portrait Art [[23]]
          "Creative Work"     Emoji Ink [[24]]

SG - Serial Narrative through Social Media

                    Critical Reading: Seriality and Storytelling in Social Media (Ruth Page) [25]

                    Creative Works: Black Box (Jennifer Egan) [26] (Tweet Collection), [27] (PDF Format)
                    Dear David (Adam Ellis) [28] (Tweet Collection), [29] (Actual Twitter Account)

RT - Twitter Fiction

                     Critical Readings: The Great American Twitter Novel (Ian Crouch) [30]
                     Twitter Fiction: Social Networking and Microfiction in 140 Characters (Carla Raguseo) [31]
                     Neil Gaiman sets Twitter ablaze with fan collaboration (Laura Blackwell) [32]
                     Neil Gaiman + Twitter = Interactive Storytelling (Barb Dybwab) [33]
                     
                     Creative Works: THE RIGHT SORT from Sceptre Books on Twitter [34]
                     Twitter fiction: 21 authors try their hand at 140-character novels [35]
                     Hearts, Keys and Puppetry by Neil Gaiman and the Twitterverse [36]
                     13 Beautiful Pieces of Twitter Fiction Remind Us How Powerful Reading Can Be (Anne Charlton) [37]

BKS - Digital Academia

                     Critical Reading: Living in a Digital World: Rethinking Peer Review, Collaboration, and Open Access by Shiela Cavangh [38]

                    Creative Work: The Knotted Line [39]

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

                     Critical Readings: Towards a History of Electronic Literature [40]
                     Digital poet Jason Nelson urges others to forge new frontiers in electronic literature [41]
                     Has Twitter given birth to a new literary genre? [42]

                     Creative Work: InstagramELiterature [43]
                     Real Human Praise [44]

H.A. - Tweet

                     ""Critical Readings:"" A Literature Review On Twitter Data Analysis [45]
                   
                     ""Creative Work"": Lonely Tweets :'( [46]

LM - Snapchat

                     Critical Readings: The Oral Paradigm and Snapchat (Oren Soffer) [47]

                     Creative Works:    Snap Art (Dasha Battelle) [48]

HA - Typography/Fonts

                     Critical Readings: “Type:Rider” Is The Ultimate Video Game About Typography [49]

                     Creative Works: Type Rider | Part 1 | Let's Play Gameplay Walkthrough Playthrough [50]

BL-S - Vaporwave

                     Critical Readings: Do You Want Vaporwave, or Do You Want the Truth? [51]

                     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 [52]

RS- Materiality

                     Critical Readings: The Aesthetics of Materiality in Electronic Literature (Serge Bouchardon) [53]

                     Creative Works:    Richard With Hair Doing Things (Richard MacDougall) [54]

J.C. - Hypertext Fiction

                     Critical Readings: Reading Hypertext and the Experience of Literature (David S. Miall and Teresa Dobson) [55]

                     Creative Works: 24 Hours (Philippa J Burne) [56]
                     My Body - a Wunderkammer (Shelley Jackson) [57]
                     Shade (Andrew Plotkin) [58]

DK - Interfaces

                     Critical Readings: "Race In/For Cyberspace: Identity Tourism and Racial Passing on the Internet" Lisa Nakamura [59]

                     Creative Works: Between Page and Screen by Amarunth Borsuk [60]
                     Bad Nudes [61] 
                     Laurel Halo and Hatsune Miku [62]] and [[63]
                     Solitude by Martine Syms [64]
                     Dissolution of the Sovereign… by Elysia Crampton [65]
                     Glass press [66]

KU- Instagram

                     Critical Readings: What is Instagram and Why is it so Popular [67]
                     Instagram Influences Creative Work [68]
                     Creative Works: Instagram-Creative Workshop [69] The 20 Most Creative Instagram Pages [70]

CC

Spirit Surfing, Kevin Bewersdorf [71]
Screen. Image. Text., Orit Gat [72]
Jodi's Infrastructure, Alexander R. Galloway [73]

Live Simulations, Ian Cheng [74]
When all my friends are on at once [75]
Tripod Zoo by my dear friend Gabe Pine! [76]

J.K. -Interactive Fiction

Creative: "Choose Your Own Youtube Adventure!" [[77]] Critical: "On Visual Novels, One in Particular" [[78]]

SK - Commenting on Comments

                     Critical: Why Are YouTube Comments the Worst on the Internet [[79]] 
                     Creative: Rooster_86 [[80]]
                     We Didn't Start the Flame War [[81]]

LY- GIFS

                     Critical Readings: Fast, Cheap, and Good: Why Animated GIFs Engage Us [82]
                     How GIF Won the Internet [83]
                     Creative Works: The Story of Gif [84]
                     Being An English Major as told by 'The Office' [85]
                     Classical Art as Gifs [86]

j.l. – interactive fiction

                     Critical Readings: Electronic Literature its Emerging Forms (by Dr. Dene Grigar) [[87]]

                     Creative Works: r/nosleep ( [[88]]

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 
                     [89], On the Democratizing and De-Democratizing Logics of the Internet, or, toward a Critique of the New 
                     Technological Fetishism [90]

                     Creative Readings: Screen-Free Parenting Facebook Group [91], "Pure Living for Life" Off-the-Grid YouTube personality/info 
                     channel [92], Digital Detox Twitter page [93], Camp Grounded: where adults go to 
                     unplug [94]

H.H. - Interactive fiction

        Critical Readings:Reading from paper versus screens: a critical review of the empirical literature (by Andrew Dillon) [[95]]
          
       
        Creative Readings:Twine Emoji game [[96]]

AH - Translating Electronic Literature

        Critical Readings: Translating Electronic Literature [[97]]

        Creative Work: Amore de Clarice [[98]]

egk

        Critical Reading:Game Studies: Narrative, Games, and and Theory [99]
        Creative Reading: Depression Quest [100], The Matter of the Great Dragon [101], The Temple of No [102]