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                       Twitter Fiction: A New Creative Literary Landscape (Laila Al Sharaqi) [http://www.journals.aiac.org.au/index.php/alls/article/view/2357/2058]
 
                       Twitter Fiction: A New Creative Literary Landscape (Laila Al Sharaqi) [http://www.journals.aiac.org.au/index.php/alls/article/view/2357/2058]
 
                       Twitter Fiction: A Shift in Author Function (Hilary Hyman) [http://discoverarchive.vanderbilt.edu/handle/1803/8205]
 
                       Twitter Fiction: A Shift in Author Function (Hilary Hyman) [http://discoverarchive.vanderbilt.edu/handle/1803/8205]
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                      Margaret Atwood talks Twitter Fiction and near-genius hashtags (Isabelle Biedenharn) [http://ew.com/article/2015/05/20/margaret-atwood-twitter-fiction/]
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                      Twitter Fiction Reveals The Power of Very, Very Short Stories (Maddie Crum) [https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/05/07/twitter-fiction_n_7205686.html]
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Adventures in Twitter Fiction (Andrew Fitzgerald) [https://www.ted.com/talks/andrew_fitzgerald_adventures_in_twitter_fiction/transcript]
  
 
                        
 
                        

Revision as of 00:21, 31 October 2017

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]
                     Twitter Fiction: A New Creative Literary Landscape (Laila Al Sharaqi) [34]
                     Twitter Fiction: A Shift in Author Function (Hilary Hyman) [35]
                     Margaret Atwood talks Twitter Fiction and near-genius hashtags (Isabelle Biedenharn) [36]
                     Twitter Fiction Reveals The Power of Very, Very Short Stories (Maddie Crum) [37]

Adventures in Twitter Fiction (Andrew Fitzgerald) [38]


                     Creative Works: THE RIGHT SORT from Sceptre Books on Twitter [39]
                     Twitter fiction: 21 authors try their hand at 140-character novels [40]
                     Hearts, Keys and Puppetry by Neil Gaiman and the Twitterverse [41]
                     13 Beautiful Pieces of Twitter Fiction Remind Us How Powerful Reading Can Be (Anne Charlton) [42]
                     OUTSHINE [43]
                     Nanoism [44]
                     7x20 [45]

BKS - Digital Academia

                     Critical Reading: Living in a Digital World: Rethinking Peer Review, Collaboration, and Open Access by Shiela Cavangh [46]
                    Creative Work: The Knotted Line [47]

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

                     Critical Readings: Towards a History of Electronic Literature [48]
                     Digital poet Jason Nelson urges others to forge new frontiers in electronic literature [49]
                     Has Twitter given birth to a new literary genre? [50]
                     Creative Work: InstagramELiterature [51]
                     Real Human Praise [52]

H.A. - Tweet

                     ""Critical Readings:"" A Literature Review On Twitter Data Analysis [53]
                   
                     ""Creative Work"": Lonely Tweets :'( [54]

LM - Snapchat

                     Critical Readings: The Oral Paradigm and Snapchat (Oren Soffer) [55]
                     Creative Works:    Snap Art (Dasha Battelle) [56]

HA - Typography/Fonts

                     Critical Readings: “Type:Rider” Is The Ultimate Video Game About Typography [57]
                     Creative Works: Type Rider | Part 1 | Let's Play Gameplay Walkthrough Playthrough [58]

BL-S - Vaporwave

                     Critical Readings: Do You Want Vaporwave, or Do You Want the Truth? [59]
                     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 [60]

RS- Materiality

                     Critical Readings: The Aesthetics of Materiality in Electronic Literature (Serge Bouchardon) [61]
                     Creative Works:    Richard With Hair Doing Things (Richard MacDougall) [62]

J.C. - Hypertext Fiction

                     Critical Readings: Reading Hypertext and the Experience of Literature (David S. Miall and Teresa Dobson) [63]
                     Creative Works: 24 Hours (Philippa J Burne) [64]
                     My Body - a Wunderkammer (Shelley Jackson) [65]
                     Shade (Andrew Plotkin) [66]


AW - Videogame Design

                     Critical Readings: Maria Garda, "Nostalgia in Retro Game Design" [[67]]
                     Bryant David Thomas "New Retro: An Exploration of Modern Video Games With A Retro Aesthetic" [[68]]
                     Creative Works: Cuphead [[69]] Actual game available on STEAM [[70]]


DK - Interfaces

                     Critical Readings: "Race In/For Cyberspace: Identity Tourism and Racial Passing on the Internet" Lisa Nakamura [71]
                     Creative Works: Between Page and Screen by Amarunth Borsuk [72]
                     Bad Nudes [73] 
                     Laurel Halo and Hatsune Miku [74]] and [[75]
                     Solitude by Martine Syms [76]
                     Dissolution of the Sovereign… by Elysia Crampton [77]
                     Glass press [78]

KU- Instagram

                     Critical Readings: What is Instagram and Why is it so Popular [79]
                     Instagram Influences Creative Work [80]
                     Creative Works: Instagram-Creative Workshop [81] The 20 Most Creative Instagram Pages [82]

CC

Spirit Surfing, Kevin Bewersdorf [83]
Screen. Image. Text., Orit Gat [84]
Jodi's Infrastructure, Alexander R. Galloway [85]
Live Simulations, Ian Cheng [86]
When all my friends are on at once [87]
Tripod Zoo by my dear friend Gabe Pine! [88]


J.K. -Interactive Fiction

Creative: "Choose Your Own Youtube Adventure!" [[89]] Critical: "On Visual Novels, One in Particular" [[90]]

SK - Commenting on Comments

                     Critical: Why Are YouTube Comments the Worst on the Internet [[91]] 
                     Creative: Rooster_86 [[92]]
                     We Didn't Start the Flame War [[93]]

LY- GIFS

                     Critical Readings: Fast, Cheap, and Good: Why Animated GIFs Engage Us [94]
                     How GIF Won the Internet [95]
                     Creative Works: The Story of Gif [96]
                     Being An English Major as told by 'The Office' [97]
                     Classical Art as Gifs [98]

j.l. – interactive fiction

                     Critical Readings: Electronic Literature its Emerging Forms (by Dr. Dene Grigar) [[99]]
                     Creative Works: r/nosleep ( [[100]]

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 
                     [101], On the Democratizing and De-Democratizing Logics of the Internet, or, toward a Critique of the New 
                     Technological Fetishism [102]
                     Creative Readings: Screen-Free Parenting Facebook Group [103], "Pure Living for Life" Off-the-Grid YouTube personality/info 
                     channel [104], Digital Detox Twitter page [105], Camp Grounded: where adults go to 
                     unplug [106]

H.H. - Interactive fiction

        Critical Readings:Reading from paper versus screens: a critical review of the empirical literature (by Andrew Dillon) [[107]]
          
       
        Creative Readings:Twine Emoji game [[108]]

AH - Translating Electronic Literature

        Critical Readings: Translating Electronic Literature [[109]]
        Creative Work: Amore de Clarice [[110]]


AW - ARGs

                     Critical Readings: Jeff Watson, "Games Beyond the ARG" [[111]]
                     Michael Anderson "The Optimist" Draws Fans Into Fictionalized Disney History" [[112]]
                     "Inside The Optimist: Solving Disney’s alternate reality game – What We Know" [[113]]
                     Bryan Bishop "How Disney Imagineering revealed the secrets of Tomorrowland two years ago" [[114]]


egk

        Critical Reading:Game Studies: Narrative, Games, and and Theory [115]
        Creative Reading: Depression Quest [116], The Matter of the Great Dragon [117], The Temple of No [118]

AG - Memes

       "'Critical Reading:'" The Rise of Memes as an Art Form [119]
                                     How to Run a Successful Meme Page [120]
        "'Creative Work:'" Fuck Jerry [121]
                                   UCLA Memes for Sick AF Tweens [122]

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


dss
- #Evil–Dead–Haunted–Zombie Media


       Critical Readings:  Bruce Sterling, Dead Media Manifesto [[123]], Interview [[124]]
       Garnet Hertz and Jussi Parrika, “Zombie Media” [[125]]
       Matthew Fuller and Andrew Goffey, Evil Media, “Introduction” [[126]]
       Jeffery Sconce, Haunted Media, Chapter 1: “Mediums and Media” [[127]]
       Friedrich Kittler, “Dracula’s Legacy” [[128]]


       Creative Readings: Garnet Hertz, A Collection of Many Problems (In Memory of The Dead Media Handbook) [[129]]
       Dead Media Catalog [[130]]
       Julius Nelson, Artyping [[131]]
       Lorenzo Thomas, Dracula [[132]]