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Semantisation, Exploration, Self-reflection and Absorption: Our Modes of Reading Hypertext Fiction
"How do we read hypertext fiction? The question has been widely explored (Moulthrop 1991; Kaplan and Moulthrop 1991; Snyder 1997; Miall and Dobson 2001; Ryan 2001; Gardner 2003; Gunder 2004; Landow 2006; Mangen 2006; Page 2006) and there seems to be a consensus regarding the reader’s experience of hypertext fiction. Many critics actually claim that reading hypertext fiction generates frustration and insecurity. These and other studies describe how their readers react on and respond to hypertext fiction, but, as I see it, they partly fail in that they put to much weight on the reader’s responds and hardly no weight on the fact that hypertext fiction just like print fiction encourage or prefigure different responses and different modes of reading. The consequence is that these studies suffers from limitations witch lessens their valuable contribution to our knowledge about reading hypertext fiction. One reason for this might be that hypertext theory lack established concepts for describing response structures that encourage different modes of reading.
Eric Dean Rasmussen - 27.01.2011 - 15:13
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List(en)ing Post
Raley's essay is a careful and descriptive reading of Hansen and Rubin's interactive installation "Listening Post" paying particular attention to complexities of reading a textual work based on live information feeds contributed by an anonymous crowd, a literary work that is perceived as a live embodied experience in a multisensoral "polyattentive" environment.
Eric Dean Rasmussen - 31.01.2011 - 12:04
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The Strategy of Digital Modernism: Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industries's Dakota
from Project MUSE: A prominent strategy in some of the most innovative electronic literature online is the appropriation and adaptation of literary modernism, what I call “digital modernism.” This essay introduces digital modernism by examining a work that exemplifies it: Dakota by Young-hae Chang Heavy Industries. I read this Flash-based work in relation to its literary inspiration: the authors claim that Dakota is “based on a close reading of Ezra Pound's Cantos part I and part II.” The authorial framework claims modernism’s cultural capital for electronic literature and encourages close reading of its text, but the work’s formal presentation of speeding, flashing text challenges such efforts. Reading Dakota as it reads Pound’s first two cantos exposes how modernism serves contemporary, digital literature by providing a model of how to “MAKE IT NEW” by renovating a literary past.
Eric Dean Rasmussen - 14.02.2011 - 10:27
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Review of From Papyrus to Hypertext: Toward the Universal Digital Library
In forty pithy essays, the author considers technological innovations that have transformed writing, altering the activity of reading and the processing of texts, individually and collectively. . . . The book's fragmentary organization--the adroit syntheses can be read in any order--makes it exceptionally accessible . . . for the born-digital generation. . . . Essential.
Eric Dean Rasmussen - 24.03.2011 - 15:57
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Electronic Literature Collection, Volume 2 Launch
On 2 May 2011, the Electronic Literature Research Group at the Department of Linguistic, Literary, and Aesthetic Studies, University of Bergen hosted two special events at the Bergen Public Library celebrating the launch of the Electronic Literature Collection, Volume 2. The Electronic Literature Collection, Volume 2 is an international anthology of more than 60 works of electronic literature published under a Creative Commons license online and on DVD.
The publication of the Electronic Literature Collection, Volume 1 in 2006 had a significant impact on the field of electronic literature, giving readers and educators a common set of referents in the form of a diverse collection of literary works made for digital media. The ELC, Volume 2, published in 2011, offers new digital poetry, hypertext fiction, interactive fiction, multimedia documentaries, and a variety of other forms of electronic literature. The University of Bergen program in Digital Culture was one of the sponsors of the publication of the ELC 2 and will make use of it in its future courses.
Eric Dean Rasmussen - 03.05.2011 - 14:13
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Hyperfiction: Novels for the Computer
Coover's second significant New York Times' Books article reviewed contemporary hypertexts most substantially including Stuart Moulthrop's Victory Garden, as examples of works that have "printbound analogues" but suggested that new narrative forms were beginning to emerge.
Scott Rettberg - 06.09.2011 - 13:38
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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
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New Directions in Digital Poetry Launch Party
A celebration of Chris Funkhouser's New Directions in Digital Poetry, featuring presentations by Francisco J. Ricardo, editor of the Continuum book series, "International Texts in Critical Media Aesthetics," in which Funkhouser's book appeared, and other e-lit figures including John Cayley, Angela Ferraiolo, Mary Flanagan, Alan Sondheim, Stephanie Strickland, and others.
Sound recordings are available from PennSound:
http://writing.upenn.edu/pennsound/x/Funkhouser-New-Directions-2012.php
Patricia Tomaszek - 05.02.2012 - 12:43
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Lesningens visjoner: Om å lese i et multimedialt miljø
A discussion of the Poetry Beyond Text project, which examined reading of concrete and digital poetry from a cognitive perspective, and a 2011 exhibition in Dundee, Scotland associated with the project, which included works by John Cayley and Simon Biggs.
Scott Rettberg - 25.03.2012 - 12:45
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Visions of Reading
Expanded English version of "Lesningens Visjoner: Om å lese i et multimedialt miljø" published in Norwegian in Vagant 2/2011.
A discussion of the Poetry Beyond Text project, which examined reading of concrete and digital poetry from a cognitive perspective, and a 2011 exhibition in Dundee, Scotland associated with the project, which included works by John Cayley and Simon Biggs.
Scott Rettberg - 25.03.2012 - 21:00
