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1. Swipe to Turn the “Page”: Metafiction in the Story App The Monster at The End of This Book

   Some children story apps have incorporated a reflexivity typical of the metafictive picturebook but this reflexivity is altered in the digital medium by the possibility of interaction – as the reader is addressed by the story, there is in interactive texts the possibility of a response that affects the narrative. The construction of metafiction is also changed by the extended multimodality of these texts, that now incorporate movement and sound, for example, creating a different kind of immersion from that promoted by the image-writing dynamics of the print picturebook. In this paper, I will discuss the realization of metafiction through the participation of the reader in the app The Monster at the End of This Book (Stone & Smollin, 2011).

   (Source: Author's Abstract at ICDMT 2016)

   Hannah Ackermans - 12.12.2016 - 14:33

2. Medium Matters? Medium Matters Not? A Reflection on the Storytelling Mechanism across Media

   We have been witnessing computer technology moving stories from page to digital platforms for years. Although we do have scholars, such as Espen Aarseth (1997), who have demonstrated the similarities of textual behaviours (not necessarily of narrative texts) based on different media, vast amount of studies tend to focus on the differences between digital storytelling and non-digital storytelling. Instead of questioning how digital media is different from non-digital media in terms of storytelling, this presentation will follow the footsteps of scholars who see the similarities rather than differences in different textualities, and will seek a perspective or position that transcends medium in the discourse of storytelling.

   Hannah Ackermans - 12.12.2016 - 14:36

3. Design of Transmedia Publishing for Scientific and Artistic Researches

   How to design an open access journal that could enhance, at the same level of expectations, classical academic and scientific articles as well as digital artistic artworks? What kind of expectations should it meet in order to feel the needs of such mixed editorial production? How could it respond to the specific needs of both types of works? (…) Based on two enquiries that we realized among the Electronic Literature Organization community, we will present a first state of the art on the design of scientific & artistic publication on digital and hybrid journals. We will be focusing on examples of technical solutions (printed journals with online complements, Web platforms, online and printable PDF, enhanced ebooks), and analyse the ‘horizon of expectation’ (Jauss) built by each model and the reader-type expected.

   (Source: Author's abstract at ICDMT 2016)

   Hannah Ackermans - 12.12.2016 - 14:45

4. Anything New Here in Story Apps? A Reflection on the Storytelling Mechanism across Media

   Anything New Here in Story Apps? A Reflection on the Storytelling Mechanism across Media

   Yan Zheng - 04.01.2017 - 16:41

5. Understanding Cosmo-Literature: The Extensions of New Media

   The central objective of this paper is to provide a new conceptual theoretical framework starting from the role of new new media in shaping a new kind of literature, which I call Cosmo-Literature. Towards this, I start working from Levinson’s differentiation among old media, new media, and new new media to arrive at the difference among the variable types of media. Next, I address the role of new new media in establishing world democracies and changing the social, cultural, and political world map. After that, I investigate the terms of “global village” and “cosmopolitanism” in relation to literature. To clarify what I mean by Cosmo Literature, I will investigate two new new media novels: Only One Millimeter Away, an Arabic Facebook novel by the Moroccan novelist Abdel-Wahid Stitu, and Hearts, Keys and Puppetry an English Twitter novel by Neil Gaiman, to infer the characteristics of Cosmo literature in general and Cosmo narration in particular.
   

   Hannah Ackermans - 17.01.2017 - 15:35

6. 'Where Are You Running Off To?': Ghanian Flash Fiction and Flash Fiction Ghana

   'Where Are You Running Off To?': Ghanian Flash Fiction and Flash Fiction Ghana

   Hannah Ackermans - 17.01.2017 - 15:44

7. Going Native: Postcolonial Traditions in Translation

   Going Native: Postcolonial Traditions in Translation

   Hannah Ackermans - 17.01.2017 - 15:49

8. Young Adult Literature and the Queer Politics of Artistic Fan Production

   Young Adult Literature and the Queer Politics of Artistic Fan Production

   Hannah Ackermans - 27.01.2017 - 14:11

9. Circle-ing Back to What Matters: Electronic Literature as Material Feminism

   Oculus Rift virtual reality headgear is usually donned to kill dragons or multitudes of soldiers, to explore far off places and feel superhuman. But Pressman argues that the VR and augment reality [AR} work of Canadian digital artist Caitlin Fisher confronts expectations about digital media, games, and electronic literature by employing such technology to tell women’s stories and to pursue feminist storytelling. Pressman examines how Fisher’s AR work Circle (2012) embeds multimodal vignettes about three generations of women onto little domestic objects, which Pressman designates “feminism in action,” specifically in the aesthetic enactment of its female-centered subject matter and its formal glitch aesthetics. More specifically, Pressman aims to show how Circle performs the central concerns of Material Feminism: an investment in illuminating how materiality and context-based relationality are central elements of experience and meaning-making. This short work about women and things insists on the relationality of animate and inanimate objects and, in so doing, it provides an opportunity to critique such philosophical movements as Object-Oriented Ontology.

   Hannah Ackermans - 06.02.2017 - 15:46

10. Code Before Content? Brogrammer Culture in Games and Electronic Literature

    Electronic literature exists at the intersection of the humanities, arts, and STEM: an acronym that itself defines a contested battleground of technical skills. The lack of diversity in STEM has received considerable scrutiny, and computer-related fields particularly suffer from a lack of diversity. Salter notes that this has contributed to the rise of “brogrammer” culture in disciplines with strong computer science components, and with it a rhetorical collision of programming and hypermasculine machismo. Brogrammer culture is self-replicating: in technical disciplines, the association of code with masculinity and men’s only spaces plays a pivotal role in reinforcing the status quo. Given this dramatic under-representation of women in computer science disciplines, the privileging of code-driven and procedural works within the discourse of electronic literature is inherently gendered. The emergence of platforms friendly to non-coders (such as Twine) broadens participation in electronic literature and gaming space, but often such works are treated and labeled differently (and less favorably) from code-driven and procedural works that occupy the same space.

    Hannah Ackermans - 08.02.2017 - 14:15

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