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1. RAW (Reading and Writing) New Media

   RAW New Media builds on the first decade of work in new media research within English studies, following (and also breaking from) the longer history of hypertext theory. The book defines new media only in as much as the individual chapters do so, setting the field as materially rich, ever-changing and remediating itself, and kairotic. What is “new” has no fixed boundaries. Because new media is constantly changing, it must be constantly historicized, theorized, and situated within cultural and social (as well as time-based and spatial) contexts.

   Scott Rettberg - 30.10.2011 - 20:26

2. Virtual Narrations: From the crisis of storytelling to new narration as mental potentiality

   A discussion and overview of digital art that uses narrative, with a particular emphasis on the 1980s and 1990s.

   Jill Walker Rettberg - 01.11.2011 - 11:23

3. Medien Kunst Netz / Media Art Net

   This is an extensive collection of information about media art work and critical texts about themes within and theories of media art, presented in German and English. It was created in collaboration between Goethe Institute and the Center for Art and Media Technology Karlsruhe. This record refers to the web edition, but there were also two books published with the content. (http://www.worldcat.org/title/medien-kunst-netz/oclc/612178982&referer=b...)

   Jill Walker Rettberg - 01.11.2011 - 11:33

4. Reading, Writing, and Teaching Creative Hypertext: A Genre-Based Pedagogy

   The present essay contributes a genre-based pedagogy, until now only hinted at by hypertext theorists and not imported into the domain of hypertext by genre theorists. While I focus on creative hypertexts—autobiographies and popular genres like soap operas and road trip stories—a genre-based pedagogy can also be used to guide students through the production of informational, academic, community or club Web sites, personal home pages, and whatever blurred or evolving genres students are inspired by and see fit to explore.

   I advance a genre-based pedagogy for teaching the reading and writing of creative hypertext to enable teachers of hypertext to start from what they know and to provide them and their students with concrete terms and models. Such a pedagogy, especially if informed by recent scholarship on genre's flexible and rhetorical nature, requires students to make various choices not only about form but about compositional concerns: tone, diction, prose style, character development, plot, setting, visual design, and hypertext navigation strategies. (Source: from actual paper)

   Jill Walker Rettberg - 01.11.2011 - 12:22

5. Web 2.0 Storytelling: Emergence of a New Genre

   Overview of dozens of examples of what the authors call "Web 2.0 Storytelling" - narratives told on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and other social media.

   Jill Walker Rettberg - 01.11.2011 - 13:48

6. Web/Fiction/Design: A brief beta-test of this year’s winner of the ELO Awards, Caitlin Fisher’s These Waves of Girls

   A (literature) award usually comes with publicity as well as responsibility. As this year's ambassador of digital literature, the US-American Electronic Literature Organization chose a webfiction that does not meet the technological standards of current internet or CD-ROM productions. Neither the rather outdated technique of frames, nor Flash (a program for moving images), nor the embedding of sounds have been implemented in a way that is technologically useful (there's nor debating aesthetics) or ar least more or less correct. About 15 years after the "invention" of digital literature (this date, too, is open for discussion), the technology available has become so sophisticated that a single author obviously can no longer live up to the demands as a lonely creative genius. The quality even of praised digital literature seems to indicate that, caused by the raising of technical standards, the future lies in what collaborative writing in hypertext or online "Mitschreibeprojekte" did not mange to establish: the dismissal of authorship in the traditional sense of authoritiy over the text in favor of a plural, diverse team-work.

   (Source: article abstract)

   Jill Walker Rettberg - 01.11.2011 - 14:24

7. Close Reading in the Realm of Static and Dynamic Texts

   Review and discussion of Reading Digital Literature at Brown University, organized by Roberto Simanowski (Brown University and Dichtung Digital) October 4-7, 2007.

   Patricia Tomaszek - 11.11.2011 - 15:28

8. Hypernews and Coherence

   This essay seeks to illuminate certain fundamental aspects of textual and cognitive coherence in the production and reading of hypertexts in general and hypernews in particular. A division into intranodal, internodal and hyperstructural coherence helps to clarify concepts and also seems to reflect certain distinctive features of hypertext as a concept representing a linguistic level above the text level. Likewise, van Dijk's conceptual distinction between macro- and superstructures proves to be useful for demonstrating how axial and networked hyperstructures respectively may maintain, strengthen or weaken various forms of textual coherence. (Source: journal abstract)

   Jill Walker Rettberg - 16.11.2011 - 12:07

9. New Criticism Necessary? and Points for Hypermedia Critics

   From editors' description: Marsh's two nodes for this issue explore how criticism of hypertext and new media might differ from criticism of print literature. In New Criticism Necessary? he considers the question of 'newness' with regard to both current practice in new media and its related criticism and theory. In Points for Hypermedia Critics he proposes three 'axes' of analysis along which a formal study of new media might proceed, suggesting that hypertext/media is at once formative, performative and reformative in design and function.

   Jill Walker Rettberg - 16.11.2011 - 12:53

10. Notes Towards a Phenomenology of Digital Information

    From the editors' description in the special issue of the journal:Weight has contributed an essay in four sections to this issue, and has titled the essay "Notes Towards a Phenomenology of Digital Information". It deals with the problems of defining an ontology and phenomenology of digital literature, as we need to define the nature of this medium before we can think of having meaningful criticism.
    
    Digital Magic
    Phenomenology and Digital Information
    Digital Art Criticism
    Futurology

    Jill Walker Rettberg - 16.11.2011 - 13:00

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