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Gutenberg Galaxy Revis(it)ed: A Brief History of Combinatory, Hypertextual and Collaborative Literature from the Baroque Period to the Present
"Gutenberg Galaxy Revis(it)ed: A Brief History of Combinatory, Hypertextual and Collaborative Literature from the Baroque Period to the Present"
Literature in computer-based media cannot be contemplated without a long literary tradition.
This article aims at substantiating this assumption with numerous examples of combinatory,
hypertextual and collaborative texts from German literary history since baroque
times. Therewith it provides us with a historical basis in order to work out the common
features and differences that with computers have entered literary texts.Source: author's abstract in book publication
Jörgen Schäfer - 28.06.2011 - 14:58
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E-Learning and Literary Studies - Towards a New Culture of Teaching?
The introduction of digital technologies into the learning processes has meant the creation of new educational spaces that, when they take place on the Internet and are founded in non-presence and asynchrony, are known as “Virtual Learning Environ- ments” (VLE). VLE constitute new pedagogic realities that must answer to the users’ needs, their educational purposes, the curricula with which they work and, specifically, the formative needs for the people that integrate them. But the key to define “virtual” in terms of human experience and not in terms of technological hardware is the concept of “presence,” which is crucial in our pedagogical model and our way of being comparative literature lecturers in a virtual university. Technologies are tools capable of building a learning frame, although it is necessary to endow them with contents and humanity. Different voices have warned of the sterility of a technological environment that does not have any pedagogic or didactic specificity (different from the traditional models). After all, learning is learning whether it has an ex- tra “e” or not, and so VLE are only as good or as bad as the ways they are used.
Helene Helgeland - 06.09.2012 - 15:47
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The Challenge of Cybertext: Teaching Literature in the Digital World
This article discusses the changing role of literature in the contemporary media landscape. Literary scholarship may well maintain its importance in the digitalizing world, but this requires it to engage in an open dialogue with cultural and media studies. It is important that more attention is paid to contemporary literature as well as to new media offering significant pedagogical possibilities, which should be better acknowledged. The article's main focus is on the emerging field of digital literature. Cybertextuality, especially, is fundamentally changing our notions of the integrity of a literary work, reading, writing and interpretation. I attempt to describe and put into context one sample case of cybertextuality, The Impermanence Agent by Noah Wardrip-Fruin et al. Finally, I discuss some of the practical problems faced by teachers who introduce digital literature in their classrooms.
(Source: Author's abstract)
Reprinted in Online Learning Vol 2: Digital Pedagogies (Sage, New York, 2011)
Patricia Tomaszek - 09.10.2012 - 15:28
