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ALT INTRO TO E-LIT SYLLABUS

UCLA 2017 ENGL 116B

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

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

                     Critical Readings: Digital Poets: Can Social Media Save Poetry (Natalie Zfat) [[1]]; Hello 'Poetry' [[2]]

                     Creative Works:    Top 10 Poetic Tweets (LW Lundquist) [[3]]; Instagram: @poemsporn_ [[4]]

LR - Textualities and Interactive Fiction

Critical Readings : Nick Montfort "Riddle Machines: The History and Nature of Interactive Fiction" [[5]]

Creative Works : Stevens & Montfort [[6]] Personal Fav: Field of Dreams

QG ~ Writing in Electronic Age

                     Critical Readings: The End of Books (Robert Coover) [[7]]

                     Creative Works:   Screen (Noah Wardrip-Fruin, Josh Carroll, Robert Coover, et. al.) [[8]]

a.k. – interactive fiction

                     Critical Readings: Toward a Theory of Interactive Fiction (Nick Monfort)  [[9]]

                     Creative Works:   Photopia by Adam Cadre (1998) ( [[10]]

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

                     Critical Readings: One + One = Zero – Vanishing Text in Electronic Literature (Marjorie C. Luesebrink) [[11]] 
                     Vanishing Letters in Text-based Digital Installations (Janez Strehovec) [[12]]
   
                     
                     Creative Work: Share a secret – One Time [[13]]

I.B. - Interactive Fiction

                     Critical Work: Hyperrhiz: New Media Cultures (JENNIFER S. ROUDABUSH) [[14]]
                     
                     Creative Works: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Douglas Adams and Steve Meretzky) [[15]]

TC- Fan Fiction

                    Critical Readings: Fan fiction, fandoms, and literature: or, why it’s time to pay attention to fan fiction (Christina Yatrakis) [[16]]

                    Creative Work: HEATHENS (--LJ--)  [[17]]

JR - Remediation

          "Critical Reading:" Emoji Portrait Art [[18]]
          "Creative Work"     Emoji Ink [[19]]

SG - Serial Narrative through Social Media

                    Critical Reading: Seriality and Storytelling in Social Media (Ruth Page) [20]

                    Creative Works: Black Box (Jennifer Egan) [21] (Tweet Collection), [22] (PDF Format)
                    Dear David (Adam Ellis) [23] (Tweet Collection), [24] (Actual Twitter Account)

RT - Twitter Fiction

                     Critical Readings: The Great American Twitter Novel [25]
                     Twitter Fiction: Social Networking and Microfiction in 140 Characters [26]
                     Neil Gaiman sets Twitter ablaze with fan collaboration [27]
                     Neil Gaiman + Twitter = Interactive Storytelling [28]
                     
                     Creative Works: THE RIGHT SORT from Sceptre Books on Twitter [29]
                     Twitter fiction: 21 authors try their hand at 140-character novels [30]
                     Hearts, Keys and Puppetry by Neil Gaiman and the Twitterverse [31]
                     13 Beautiful Pieces of Twitter Fiction Remind Us How Powerful Reading Can Be [32]

BKS - Digital Academia

                     Critical Reading: Living in a Digital World: Rethinking Peer Review, Collaboration, and Open Access by Shiela Cavangh [33]

                    Creative Work: The Knotted Line [34]

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

                     Critical Readings: Towards a History of Electronic Literature [35]
                     Digital poet Jason Nelson urges others to forge new frontiers in electronic literature [36]
                     Has Twitter given birth to a new literary genre? [37]

                     Creative Work: InstagramELiterature [38]
                     Real Human Praise [39]

LM - Snapchat

                     Critical Readings: The Oral Paradigm and Snapchat (Oren Soffer) [40]

                     Creative Works:    Snap Art (Dasha Battelle) [41]

HA - Typography/Fonts

               Critical Readings: “Type:Rider” Is The Ultimate Video Game About Typography [42]

               Creative Works: Type Rider | Part 1 | Let's Play Gameplay Walkthrough Playthrough [43]