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1. The danger of a simple story

   This presentation uses Chimamanda Adichie’s lecture The Danger of Single Story as a starting point to discuss how new media technologies can be used to counteract the simplistic narratives typically assigned to marginalized communities and allow for a more nuanced depiction. By examining two of the presenter’s multiformat, multi-year, transmedia documentary projects: Closer: A Journey with Charles and Punk Rock Mommy: Ephemeral the question of complexity versus economy will be addressed. The discussion will address: creative process, strategies for shared authorship that provide the subject with agency, justification for the technological variety, and respond to the challenges of this approach. With multiple channels containing varied information some viewers/readers/participants become disinterested where others find themselves immersed in the narrative. Mainstream audiences sometimes prefer the minimal investment required by a narrative where the text clearly states how one should feel about a subject.

   Scott Rettberg - 19.06.2014 - 20:30

2. The Riderly Text: The Joy of Networked Improv Literatur

   This essay aims to discuss literary pleasure, new media literacy, and
   the Networked Improv Literature (Netprov). In particular, the author
   will discuss the challenges of “close-reading” the Speidishow, a
   Netprov enacted via Twitter (and a constellation of supplementary
   web-based media) over a period of several weeks. In the process of
   trying to understand the dynamics of reading on Twitter, the author of
   this essay created a Twitter account, @BrutusCorbin, and consulted
   with the writers about the plot structure. Through active engagement
   with the fictional world, Corbin quickly became embroiled in a
   sub-plot. Seeking distance from the active plots which Corbin was
   involved in, his author created two new characters, @FelixMPastor and
   @FrannyCheshire, to explore different aspects of the fictional world.
   Pastor and Cheshire were subsequently dragged into the story, as well.
   This piece will dig into the concept of the “readerly” and “writerly”
   text as identified by Roland Barthes in S/Z and The Pleasure of the
   Text and settle on a third term: “the riderly text.”

   Sumeya Hassan - 17.02.2015 - 15:59