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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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]] [[16]]

TC- Fan Fiction

                    Critical Readings: Fan fiction, fandoms, and literature: or, why it’s time to pay attention to fan fiction (Christina Yatrakis) [[17]]

                    Creative Work: HEATHENS (--LJ--)  [[18]]

JR - Remediation

          "Critical Reading:" Emoji Portrait Art [[19]]
          "Creative Work"     Emoji Ink [[20]]

SG - Serial Narrative through Social Media

                    Critical Reading: Seriality and Storytelling in Social Media (Ruth Page) [21]

                    Creative Works: Black Box (Jennifer Egan) [22] (Tweet Collection), [23] (PDF Format)
                    Dear David (Adam Ellis) [24] (Tweet Collection), [25] (Actual Twitter Account)

RT - Twitter Fiction

                     Critical Readings: The Great American Twitter Novel (Ian Crouch) [26]
                     Twitter Fiction: Social Networking and Microfiction in 140 Characters (Carla Raguseo) [27]
                     Neil Gaiman sets Twitter ablaze with fan collaboration (Laura Blackwell) [28]
                     Neil Gaiman + Twitter = Interactive Storytelling (Barb Dybwab) [29]
                     
                     Creative Works: THE RIGHT SORT from Sceptre Books on Twitter [30]
                     Twitter fiction: 21 authors try their hand at 140-character novels [31]
                     Hearts, Keys and Puppetry by Neil Gaiman and the Twitterverse [32]
                     13 Beautiful Pieces of Twitter Fiction Remind Us How Powerful Reading Can Be (Anne Charlton) [33]

BKS - Digital Academia

                     Critical Reading: Living in a Digital World: Rethinking Peer Review, Collaboration, and Open Access by Shiela Cavangh [34]

                    Creative Work: The Knotted Line [35]

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

                     Critical Readings: Towards a History of Electronic Literature [36]
                     Digital poet Jason Nelson urges others to forge new frontiers in electronic literature [37]
                     Has Twitter given birth to a new literary genre? [38]

                     Creative Work: InstagramELiterature [39]
                     Real Human Praise [40]

LM - Snapchat

                     Critical Readings: The Oral Paradigm and Snapchat (Oren Soffer) [41]

                     Creative Works:    Snap Art (Dasha Battelle) [42]

HA - Typography/Fonts

                     Critical Readings: “Type:Rider” Is The Ultimate Video Game About Typography [43]

                     Creative Works: Type Rider | Part 1 | Let's Play Gameplay Walkthrough Playthrough [44]

BL-S - Vaporwave

                     Critical Readings: Do You Want Vaporwave, or Do You Want the Truth? [45]

                     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 [46]

RS- Materiality

                     Critical Readings: The Aesthetics of Materiality in Electronic Literature (Serge Bouchardon) [47]

                     Creative Works:    Richard With Hair Doing Things (Richard MacDougall) [48]

J.C. - Hypertext Fiction

                     Critical Readings: Reading Hypertext and the Experience of Literature (David S. Miall and Teresa Dobson) [49]

                     Creative Works: 24 Hours (Philippa J Burne) [50]
                     My Body - a Wunderkammer (Shelley Jackson) [51]
                     Shade (Andrew Plotkin) [52]

DK - Interfaces

                     Critical Readings: "Race In/For Cyberspace: Identity Tourism and Racial Passing on the Internet" Lisa Nakamura [53]

                     Creative Works: Between Page and Screen by Amarunth Borsuk [54]
                     Bad Nudes [55] 
                     Laurel Halo and Hatsune Miku [56]] and [[57]
                     Solitude by Martine Syms [58]
                     Dissolution of the Sovereign… by Elysia Crampton [59]
                     Glass press [60]

KU- Instagram

                     Critical Readings: What is Instagram and Why is it so Popular [61]
                     Instagram Influences Creative Work [62]
                     Creative Works: Instagram-Creative Workshop [63] The 20 Most Creative Instagram Pages [64]

CC

Spirit Surfing, Kevin Bewersdorf [65]
Screen. Image. Text., Orit Gat [66]
Jodi's Infrastructure, Alexander R. Galloway [67]

Live Simulations, Ian Cheng [68]
When all my friends are on at once [69]
Tripod Zoo by my dear friend Gabe Pine! [70]

J.K.

Critical: "Choose Your Own Youtube Adventure!" [[71]] Creative: "On Visual Novels, One in Particular" [[72]]