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Destination Unknown: Experiments in the Network Novel
PhD, University of Cincinnati, Arts & Sciences : English & Comparative Literature, 2003.
Advisor: Dr. Thomas LeClair
Scott Rettberg - 26.02.2011 - 16:15
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Writing Space: The Computer, Hypertext, and the History of Writing
From the publisher:
This second edition of Jay David Bolter's classic text expands on the objectives of the original volume, illustrating the relationship of print to new media, and examining how hypertext and other forms of electronic writing refashion or "remediate" the forms and genres of print. Reflecting the dynamic changes in electronic technology since the first edition, this revision incorporates the Web and other current standards of electronic writing. As a text for students in composition, new technologies, information studies, and related areas, this volume provides a unique examination of the computer as a technology for reading and writing.
Original publication date: 1991, published by Laurence Erlbaum Associates, Hillsdale, New Jersey.
Patricia Tomaszek - 28.02.2011 - 11:48
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Remediation: Understanding New Media
Media critics remain captivated by the modernist myth of the new: they assume that digital technologies such as the World Wide Web, virtual reality, and computer graphics must divorce themselves from earlier media for a new set of aesthetic and cultural principles. In this richly illustrated study, Jay David Bolter and Richard Grusin offer a theory of mediation for our digital age that challenges this assumption. They argue that new visual media achieve their cultural significance precisely by paying homage to, rivaling, and refashioning such earlier media as perspective painting, photography, film, and television. They call this process of refashioning "remediation," and they note that earlier media have also refashioned one another: photography remediated painting, film remediated stage production and photography, and television remediated film, vaudeville, and radio.
(Source: MIT Press)
Maria Engberg - 28.03.2011 - 17:22
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Exploiting Kairos in Electronic Literature: A Rhetorical Analysis
The purpose of this study is to expand on Wayne Booth's work in the Rhetoic of Fiction regarding methods directing readers toward understanding in fiction to include the possibilities for pursuation avaiable in electronic mediums. The story theorizes the the answers to the following: How are writers in electronic spaces appropirating, expanding, and subverting electronic devices honed in print? How has the kairos, or situational context, of electronic spaces been exploited? What new rhetorical devices are being developed in electronic spaces? What does the dialogue between print-based and electronic-based works offers to rhetorical scholars in terms of rhetorical analysis and composition?
Kristina Gulvik Nilsen - 18.10.2011 - 21:28
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Old Wine in New Bottles
English version of "Gammel vin in nye skinnsekker" published in Norwegian in Vagant 1/2010.
The article addresses several works of electronic literature which take as their basis print works from other periods: Shelley Jackson's remix of the Frankenstein story in Patchwork Girl, Barry Smylie's new media version of Homer's Illiad, and Chris Ault's play with Jeanette Winterson's Sexing the Cherry in "Hot Air".
Scott Rettberg - 26.03.2012 - 09:06
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Digital Literature: Theoretical and Aesthetic Reflections
The emergence of a new phenomenon – digital literature – within the field of
literary studies calls for the reorganization and creation of new theoretical and
analytical repertoires. As models of communication change, so do
reception and production processes accompanying these changes. Within these
altered scenarios, the dissertation Digital Literature: Theoretical and Aesthetic
Reflections is a response to the aesthetic and theoretical challenges brought on by
computer-based literature. As a methodological strategy, the dissertation articulates
recent trends in the theory of digital aesthetics – remediation (BOLTER),
eventilization (HAYLES), correlations of performativity, intermediality and
interactivity with meaning-driven analysis (SIMANOWSKI), Medienumbrüche
(GENDOLLA & SCHÄFER) – with theories of production of presence
(GUMBRECHT), autopoietic communicative models (LUHMANN) and closereadings
of digital works. By scripting a dialogue with key theorists from print
literary theory as well as new media theorists and artists in the burgeoning field,Luciana Gattass - 08.05.2012 - 14:38
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Productions of Presence: Sensing Electronic Literature
Using the virtual reality work Screen by Noah Wardrip-Fruin (designed for Brown University’s CAVE) as a tutor-text, the paper addresses cave rhetoric as it relates to Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht’s concept of production of presence. One generalization to be made about CAVE pieces is that they foster a tactile impulse, despite the fact that tangibility in VR is unachievable. As he dissects “the gravity of the leaf” in his eponymous 2010 essay, John Cayley speaks of a new phenomenology of language, one wherein floating textual strings would not constitute acts of remediation proper but rather frame new instances of mediation (CAYLEY, 2010). Inasmuch as it re-introduces embodied text as both dislodged symbolic inscription and virtual obstacle – though lacking a third dimension, text becomes perceivable in space as solid matter –, then one might argue that the CAVE rehabilitates and multiplies the paradoxes with which literary criticism has had to grapple in the past with the advent of Concrete poetics.
Eric Dean Rasmussen - 30.05.2012 - 11:24
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Conclusion: Whither American Fiction?
Conclusion: Whither American Fiction?
Eric Dean Rasmussen - 30.10.2012 - 22:14
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Lines for a Virtual T[y/o]pography: Electronic Essays on Artifice and Information
This dissertation is comprised by five interrelated electronic essays (plus a VRML installation) on artifice, information, and aesthetics. Each essay has been conceived as an intervention in the current critical discourse of new media studies. The essays oscillate loosely between the twin graphical themes of typography and topography, evoking what a recent writer in ArtByte magazine has called (in another context) "a vast network of dislocated visual events." The first essay, "A White Paper on Information," argues for a fundamental shift in the nature of information in the midst of our current "Information Age," a shift recognizing information (data) as a historically and epistemologically distinct category of representation; this shift, I argue, is a direct result of the rise (since the mid-eighties) of computer graphics and information design as leading-edge research areas in computer science.
Patricia Tomaszek - 29.06.2013 - 01:22
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Geomediale Fiktionen: Map Mashups – zur Renaissance der literarischen Kartographie in der digitalen Literatur
Geomediale Fiktionen: Map Mashups – zur Renaissance der literarischen Kartographie in der digitalen Literatur
Patricia Tomaszek - 06.07.2013 - 23:58