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Beyond Oral/Digital: Ghanaian Electronic Literature as a Paradigm for African Digital Textuality
This dissertation speaks to a massive dearth of research in African electronic literature (African e-lit), a discipline that boasts a growing number of works but little scholarship. With African literature incorporating digital technology into its creative process, and with electronic literary criticism focusing on areas outside its predominantly western cannon, African e-lit positions itself as an important area of scholarly endeavor. After considering the implications of placing African e-lit as the direction in which both African literature and electronic literature take, this dissertation looks at three different genres of African e-lit in the context of oral literature. There are analyses of examples of concrete poetry, conceptual poetry, and mobile video games, all from Ghana. Ultimately, the aim of this project is to ascertain the ways in which oral tradition influences the nature, form, and shape of African electronic literature.
Jill Walker Rettberg - 16.10.2018 - 23:20
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Do It
"Do it" by Serge Bouchardon is an app that encourages the reader to be a more active participant in their lives. Posted in this issue is a sample video of Bouchardon’s app. Upon opening the app, the reader is told they are at a job interview and then is prompted through the various existential anxieties that follow. You can shake, tap, and expand the narrative, but the most important thing asked of you during the experience is: can you adapt?
The work has been presented by "The New River" for the Spring 2018 edition.
The app is avaiable for Ios and Android devices and it can be found here:https://www.cddc.vt.edu/journals/newriver/18Spring/DoIt/DI.html
Source: https://www.cddc.vt.edu/journals/newriver/18Spring/editor.html
Chiara Agostinelli - 28.10.2018 - 19:30
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Expanded Cinema
Expanded Cinema
Ana Castello - 29.10.2018 - 17:23
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Reading Digits – Haptic Reading Processes in the Experience of Digital Literary Works
The intensification of tactile/haptic research by academia and the digital technology industry, has given rise to several instrumentalizations of the adjective haptic, often contradicting an entire philosophical haptological tradition, going back to Aristotle and allowing us to think of the haptic from a multisensory perspective capable of destabilizing the idea of pure sensory modalities. On the one hand, such intensification is evidenced by the ubiquity of digital technological devices that call for interaction through touch and gesture as tactile/haptic functions necessary for experiencing digital content. On the other hand, it may be seen in the increasing demand for tangibility between human and machine, particularly through sensory experiences made possible by virtual/augmented reality, as well as, mixed reality/virtuality platforms. Such intense literalization of the haptic also, paradoxically, ends up reinforcing the existence and primacy of a visual culture inherent to an ocularcentric society.
Diogo Marques - 05.12.2018 - 15:56
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Bodies of Information: Intersectional Feminism and Digital Humanities
In recent years, the digital humanities has been shaken by important debates about inclusivity and scope—but what change will these conversations ultimately bring about? Can the digital humanities complicate the basic assumptions of tech culture, or will this body of scholarship and practices simply reinforce preexisting biases? Bodies of Information addresses this crucial question by assembling a varied group of leading voices, showcasing feminist contributions to a panoply of topics, including ubiquitous computing, game studies, new materialisms, and cultural phenomena like hashtag activism, hacktivism, and campaigns against online misogyny.
Taking intersectional feminism as the starting point for doing digital humanities, Bodies of Information is diverse in discipline, identity, location, and method. Helpfully organized around keywords of materiality, values, embodiment, affect, labor, and situatedness, this comprehensive volume is ideal for classrooms. And with its multiplicity of viewpoints and arguments, it’s also an important addition to the evolving conversations around one of the fastest growing fields in the academy.
Hannah Ackermans - 06.08.2019 - 10:45
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The Gutenberg Galaxy: The Making of Typographic Man
The Gutenberg Galaxy: The Making of Typographic Man
Scott Rettberg - 27.08.2019 - 14:51
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A Cultural Analysis of Resistances to Digital Poetries
A Cultural Analysis of Resistances to Digital Poetries
Scott Rettberg - 27.08.2019 - 15:02
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Grammalepsy : Essays on Digital Language Art
Collecting and recontextualizing writings from the last twenty years of John Cayley's research-based practice of electronic literature, Grammalepsy introduces a theory of aesthetic linguistic practice developed specifically for the making and critical appreciation of language art in digital media. As he examines the cultural shift away from traditional print literature and the changes in our culture of reading, Cayley coins the term “grammalepsy” to inform those processes by which we make, understand, and appreciate language.
Framing his previous writings within the overall context of this theory, Cayley eschews the tendency of literary critics and writers to reduce aesthetic linguistic making-even when it has multimedia affordances-to “writing.” Instead, Cayley argues that electronic literature and digital language art allow aesthetic language makers to embrace a compositional practice inextricably involved with digital media, which cannot be reduced to print-dependent textuality.
David Wright - 05.09.2019 - 03:42
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Art as a Social System
Art as a Social System
Gesa Blume - 17.09.2019 - 15:54
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Die Welten der Medien. Grundlagen und Perspektiven der Medienbeobachtung
Die Welten der Medien. Grundlagen und Perspektiven der Medienbeobachtung
Gesa Blume - 19.09.2019 - 23:46
