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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[[1]] Darkness - Chapter 1, Yedda Morrison [[2]]

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

                     Critical Readings: Digital Poets: Can Social Media Save Poetry (Natalie Zfat) [[3]]; Hello 'Poetry' [[4]]

                     Creative Works:    Top 10 Poetic Tweets (LW Lundquist) [[5]]; Instagram: @poemsporn_ [[6]]

LR - Textualities and Interactive Fiction

Critical Readings : Nick Montfort "Riddle Machines: The History and Nature of Interactive Fiction" [[7]]

Creative Works : Stevens & Montfort [[8]] Personal Fav: Field of Dreams

QG ~ Writing in Electronic Age

                     Critical Readings: The End of Books (Robert Coover) [[9]]

                     Creative Works:   Screen (Noah Wardrip-Fruin, Josh Carroll, Robert Coover, et. al.) [[10]]

a.k. – interactive fiction

                     Critical Readings: Toward a Theory of Interactive Fiction (Nick Monfort)  [[11]]

                     Creative Works:   Photopia by Adam Cadre (1998) ( [[12]]

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

                     Critical Readings: One + One = Zero – Vanishing Text in Electronic Literature (Marjorie C. Luesebrink) [[13]] 
                     Vanishing Letters in Text-based Digital Installations (Janez Strehovec) [[14]]
   
                     
                     Creative Work: Share a secret – One Time [[15]]

I.B. - Interactive Fiction

                     Critical Work: Hyperrhiz: New Media Cultures (JENNIFER S. ROUDABUSH) [[16]]
                     
                     Creative Works: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Douglas Adams and Steve Meretzky) [[17]] [[18]]

TC- Fan Fiction

                    Critical Readings: Fan fiction, fandoms, and literature: or, why it’s time to pay attention to fan fiction (Christina Yatrakis) [[19]]

                    Creative Work: HEATHENS (--LJ--)  [[20]]

JR - Remediation

          "Critical Reading:" Emoji Portrait Art [[21]]
          "Creative Work"     Emoji Ink [[22]]

SG - Serial Narrative through Social Media

                    Critical Reading: Seriality and Storytelling in Social Media (Ruth Page) [23]

                    Creative Works: Black Box (Jennifer Egan) [24] (Tweet Collection), [25] (PDF Format)
                    Dear David (Adam Ellis) [26] (Tweet Collection), [27] (Actual Twitter Account)

RT - Twitter Fiction

                     Critical Readings: The Great American Twitter Novel (Ian Crouch) [28]
                     Twitter Fiction: Social Networking and Microfiction in 140 Characters (Carla Raguseo) [29]
                     Neil Gaiman sets Twitter ablaze with fan collaboration (Laura Blackwell) [30]
                     Neil Gaiman + Twitter = Interactive Storytelling (Barb Dybwab) [31]
                     
                     Creative Works: THE RIGHT SORT from Sceptre Books on Twitter [32]
                     Twitter fiction: 21 authors try their hand at 140-character novels [33]
                     Hearts, Keys and Puppetry by Neil Gaiman and the Twitterverse [34]
                     13 Beautiful Pieces of Twitter Fiction Remind Us How Powerful Reading Can Be (Anne Charlton) [35]

BKS - Digital Academia

                     Critical Reading: Living in a Digital World: Rethinking Peer Review, Collaboration, and Open Access by Shiela Cavangh [36]

                    Creative Work: The Knotted Line [37]

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

                     Critical Readings: Towards a History of Electronic Literature [38]
                     Digital poet Jason Nelson urges others to forge new frontiers in electronic literature [39]
                     Has Twitter given birth to a new literary genre? [40]

                     Creative Work: InstagramELiterature [41]
                     Real Human Praise [42]

H.A. - Tweet

                     ""Critical Readings:"" A Literature Review On Twitter Data Analysis [43]
                   
                     ""Creative Work"": Lonely Tweets :'( [44]

LM - Snapchat

                     Critical Readings: The Oral Paradigm and Snapchat (Oren Soffer) [45]

                     Creative Works:    Snap Art (Dasha Battelle) [46]

HA - Typography/Fonts

                     Critical Readings: “Type:Rider” Is The Ultimate Video Game About Typography [47]

                     Creative Works: Type Rider | Part 1 | Let's Play Gameplay Walkthrough Playthrough [48]

BL-S - Vaporwave

                     Critical Readings: Do You Want Vaporwave, or Do You Want the Truth? [49]

                     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 [50]

RS- Materiality

                     Critical Readings: The Aesthetics of Materiality in Electronic Literature (Serge Bouchardon) [51]

                     Creative Works:    Richard With Hair Doing Things (Richard MacDougall) [52]

J.C. - Hypertext Fiction

                     Critical Readings: Reading Hypertext and the Experience of Literature (David S. Miall and Teresa Dobson) [53]

                     Creative Works: 24 Hours (Philippa J Burne) [54]
                     My Body - a Wunderkammer (Shelley Jackson) [55]
                     Shade (Andrew Plotkin) [56]

DK - Interfaces

                     Critical Readings: "Race In/For Cyberspace: Identity Tourism and Racial Passing on the Internet" Lisa Nakamura [57]

                     Creative Works: Between Page and Screen by Amarunth Borsuk [58]
                     Bad Nudes [59] 
                     Laurel Halo and Hatsune Miku [60]] and [[61]
                     Solitude by Martine Syms [62]
                     Dissolution of the Sovereign… by Elysia Crampton [63]
                     Glass press [64]

KU- Instagram

                     Critical Readings: What is Instagram and Why is it so Popular [65]
                     Instagram Influences Creative Work [66]
                     Creative Works: Instagram-Creative Workshop [67] The 20 Most Creative Instagram Pages [68]

CC

Spirit Surfing, Kevin Bewersdorf [69]
Screen. Image. Text., Orit Gat [70]
Jodi's Infrastructure, Alexander R. Galloway [71]

Live Simulations, Ian Cheng [72]
When all my friends are on at once [73]
Tripod Zoo by my dear friend Gabe Pine! [74]

J.K. -Interactive Fiction

Creative: "Choose Your Own Youtube Adventure!" [[75]] Critical: "On Visual Novels, One in Particular" [[76]]

SK - Commenting on Comments

                     Critical: Why Are YouTube Comments the Worst on the Internet [[77]] 
                     Creative: Rooster_86 [[78]]
                     We Didn't Start the Flame War [[79]]

LY- GIFS

                     Critical Readings: Fast, Cheap, and Good: Why Animated GIFs Engage Us [80]
                     How GIF Won the Internet [81]
                     Creative Works: The Story of Gif [82]
                     Being An English Major as told by 'The Office' [83]
                     Classical Art as Gifs [84]

j.l. – interactive fiction

                     Critical Readings: Electronic Literature its Emerging Forms (by Dr. Dene Grigar) [[85]]

                     Creative Works: r/nosleep ( [[86]]

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 
                     [87], On the Democratizing and De-Democratizing Logics of the Internet, or, toward a Critique of the New 
                     Technological Fetishism [88]

                     Creative Readings: Screen-Free Parenting Facebook Group [89], "Pure Living for Life" Off-the-Grid YouTube personality/info 
                     channel [90], Digital Detox Twitter page [91]

H.H. - Interactive fiction

        ""Critical Readings:"' Reading from paper versus screens: a critical review of the empirical literature (by Andrew Dillon) [[92]]
          
          ""Creative Readings:"" Twine Emoji game [[93]]