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1. There is No Software

   There is No Software

   Scott Rettberg - 22.08.2014 - 10:46

2. Live/Archive: Occupy MLA

   More than other netprovs, Occupy MLA [OMLA] lays bare the ethical and performative capacities of the genre. Both a live performance and an enduring if volatile media artifact, OMLA leaves "data contrails": digital traces of real-time reader participation that slowly decay and become less coherent over time. This decay creates an enduring performance record that distorts the live experience of it. In this essay, the shareable, spreadable and appropriative aspects of netprov as a "born digital" live reading/writing interface are considered. The sheer volume of OMLA's tweets and its installation as time-based art create a primary text whose "primacy" is functionally impossible. Part one of the essay examines how and why OMLA's 3000-tweet archive, #OMLA hashtag, and abundant paraphrastic materials actually take readers further from the live experience rather than closer in.

   Kathi Inman Berens - 19.09.2014 - 16:45

3. The Riderly Text: The Joy of Networked Improv Literature

   This essay aims to discuss literary pleasure, new media literacy, and networked improv literature (netprov). In particular, the author will discuss the challenges of "close-reading" the Speidishow, a netprov enacted via Twitter (and a constellation of supplementary web-based media) over a period of several weeks. In the process of trying to understand the dynamics of reading on Twitter, the author of this essay created a Twitter account, @BrutusCorbin, and consulted with the writers about plot structure. Through active engagement with the fictional world, Corbin quickly became embroiled in a sub-plot. Seeking distance from the active plots which Corbin was involved in, his author created two new characters, @FelixMPastor and @FrannyCheshire, to explore different aspects of the fictional world. Pastor and Cheshire were subsequently dragged into the story, as well.

   Scott Rettberg - 17.02.2015 - 09:25

4. From Byte to Inscription: An Interview with John Cayley by Brian Kim Stefans

   From Byte to Inscription: An Interview with John Cayley by Brian Kim Stefans

   Alvaro Seica - 05.05.2015 - 15:15

5. Hyperfiction Moulthrop’s Computer Novel Weaves a Web of Alternative Endings

   Hyperfiction Moulthrop’s Computer Novel Weaves a Web of Alternative Endings

   Alvaro Seica - 10.03.2016 - 15:19

6. Hyper and Deep Attention

   This essay is a hypothesis with focus on the generational shift from deep attention, towards hyper attention in cognitive modes. Deep attention is a cognitive mode witch will allow you to focus long term, problemsolving, analyzing etc. Reading a long novella, solving a mathproblem. Hyper attention is the cognitive mode where you multitask, lots of minor tasks at once, as in playing a videogame, using social media, etc. In this mode your focus has a short timeline and tends to affect your attention span conserning long time problemsolving.
   The article discusses the educational preparedness in the future, when this problem is likely to affect us. As a society the problem of this generational shift has already started to show itself,
   but the educational system need to prepare for the changes that will arise, when todays 10 year olds enter the area of higher education.
   It is suggested that being prepared could be to use new pedagogical models, that provide greater stimulation than the typical classrom.
   

   Susanne Dahl - 25.08.2016 - 15:33

7. From Game-Story to Cyberdrama

   Moving from the holodeck to the game board, Janet Murray explains why we make dramas of digital simulations.

   Andre Lund - 26.09.2017 - 13:09

8. ebr version 1.0: Winter 1995/96

   To introduce an electronic
   book
   review, in the very medium that is reducing book technology to a
   museum piece, is to confront some of the more persistent cultural
   contradictions of the past few decades. This is the late age of print
   we’re in, when all the books worth saving are being scanned into digital
   archives, and the very conception of the book as a fixed object is
   giving way to the hyperreality of letters floating on a screen. For
   those writers who are committed to working in the new electronic
   environments, such a “review” might better be named a “retrospective,” a
   mere scholarly commemoration of a phenomenon that is passing. “The death
   of books” has spawned a rather lively academic discourse of its own,
   following in the wake of post-history, post-structuralism,
   post-feminism, and the various postmodernisms that have worked to
   undercut the authority of original authorship. The argument has been
   made that technological change represents a happy “convergence” with
   developments in literary theory; yet new technologies and media of

   Ole Samdal - 24.10.2017 - 15:57

9. Slow, Spare, and Painful

   Steffen Hantke reviews the reviewers of Don DeLillo’s Body Artist, dispelling the notion that, after Underworld, the shorter book is necessarily a slighter one.

   Glenn Solvang - 07.11.2017 - 15:50

10. Cell Phone Novel A New Genre of Literature

    Cell phone is one of the most popular and portable of almost all the modern electronic gadgets used in the modern world, especially by young men and women. A cell phone nowadays has become a multi-purpose household electronic device since its utility has been highly increasing day by day, for speaking and chatting, for sending and receiving messages, as a camera, as a storehouse of a number of valuable information, as a music player and recorder (voice recorder too), as an FM radio, as a calculator, as a modem for internet connection and internet surfing, as a medium for advertisement, even as a medium for conducting bank transactions, as a mini-projector and so on. Recently it has become the latest form of entertainment, in providing novels for readers through its screen which has been called by various names such as cell phone novel, mobile phone novel, text messaging novel, m-novel, m-lit, cell literature, phone novel, and even as SMS novel.

    (source: Introduction of Cell Phone Novel A New Genre of Literature)

    Shanmuga Priya - 06.04.2018 - 08:54

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