Alt Syllabus
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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], Camp Grounded: where adults go to unplug [92]
H.H. - Interactive fiction
""Critical Readings:"' Reading from paper versus screens: a critical review of the empirical literature (by Andrew Dillon) [[93]] ""Creative Readings:"" Twine Emoji game [[94]]
