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  1. Computer Lib: You can and must understand computers now / Dream Machines: New freedoms through computer screens—a minority report

    Computer Lib: You can and must understand computers now / Dream Machines: New freedoms through computer screens—a minority report

    Scott Rettberg - 25.03.2011 - 12:19

  2. Print Is Flat, Code Is Deep: Rethinking Signification in New Media

    Lulled into somnolence by five hundred years of print, literary analysis should awaken to the importance of media-specific analysis, a mode of critical attention which recognizes that all texts are instantiated and that the nature of the medium in which they are instantiated matters. Central to repositioning critical inquiry, so it can attend to the specificity of the medium, is a more robust notion of materiality. Materiality is reconceptualized as the interplay between a text's physical characteristics and its signifying strategies, a move that entwines instantiation and signification at the outset. This definition opens the possibility of considering texts as embodied entities while still maintaining a central focus on interpretation. It makes materiality an emergent property, so that it cannot be specified in advance, as if it were a pre-given entity. Rather, materiality is open to debate and interpretation, ensuring that discussions about the text's "meaning" will also take into account its physical specificity as well.

    Scott Rettberg - 25.03.2011 - 21:11

  3. Archivierung von digitaler Literatur: Probleme,Tendenzen, Perspektiven / Archiving Electronic Literature and Poetry: Problems, Tendencies, Perspectives

    A special issue of the journal SPIEL.

    Electronic literature and E-Poetry is updated, interactive, subjective and well networked. But how durable is it? How long do texts published on web pages remain readable? What happens to the old issues if one visits a literature magazine “via the web”? How is a blog archived? Should texts that are deliberately published on the fleeting medium internet be conserved at all for the future?

    It seems ironic that the transient character of the internet is attached to a medium that seems to be very suitable for documentation and archiving. And still each website only remains available on the internet at its original address for less than 100 days on average. Afterwards it moves or is erased completely. This is of course also the case for Net literature.

    However, different genres turn the tables. These conceptions don’t even have the problems of archiving and musealization, but explicitly excluded them. The temporary and transience becomes the topic of literature.

    Beat Suter - 28.03.2011 - 16:16

  4. Remediation: Understanding New Media

    Media critics remain captivated by the modernist myth of the new: they assume that digital technologies such as the World Wide Web, virtual reality, and computer graphics must divorce themselves from earlier media for a new set of aesthetic and cultural principles. In this richly illustrated study, Jay David Bolter and Richard Grusin offer a theory of mediation for our digital age that challenges this assumption. They argue that new visual media achieve their cultural significance precisely by paying homage to, rivaling, and refashioning such earlier media as perspective painting, photography, film, and television. They call this process of refashioning "remediation," and they note that earlier media have also refashioned one another: photography remediated painting, film remediated stage production and photography, and television remediated film, vaudeville, and radio.

    (Source: MIT Press)

    Maria Engberg - 28.03.2011 - 17:22

  5. Teaching Literature at a Distance: Open, Online and Blended Learning

    Teaching Literature at a Distance: Open, Online and Blended Learning

    Eric Dean Rasmussen - 06.04.2011 - 11:43

  6. Cybertext Yearbook 2010

    In this volume we wil continue to expand the Ergodic History theme started in the Yearbook 2006, with five articles dealing with the Polish literary history. In addition we have articles on various cybertextual themes.

    (Source: Cybertext Yearbook Database).

    Eric Dean Rasmussen - 07.04.2011 - 11:24

  7. In Search of Novel Poetic Territories: On Media Poetry: An International Anthology

    In Search of Novel Poetic Territories: On Media Poetry: An International Anthology

    Eric Dean Rasmussen - 07.04.2011 - 12:14

  8. Approaches to Digital Literature: Temporal Dynamics and Cyborg Authors

    Approaches to Digital Literature: Temporal Dynamics and Cyborg Authors

    Eric Dean Rasmussen - 07.04.2011 - 12:47

  9. Netpoetic

    Netpoetic is a collaborative weblog exploring digital poetry and electronic literature, including contributions from about 25 authors and critics active in the field, ranging from calls for works and announcements to reviews to pedagogical and theoretical observations. This collective activity is organized by digital poet Jason Nelson.

    Scott Rettberg - 14.04.2011 - 12:09

  10. Hypertext: An alternative route to short story theorising

    Hypertext: An alternative route to short story theorising

    Theodoros Chiotis - 15.04.2011 - 21:33

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