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Editing Electronic Literature in the Global Publishing System
Contemporary “format disruptions” (Savikas) lead to a new experience and practice of scholarly publishing: it is global, virtual, and instantaneous. How does this apply to electronic literature? Elit works exist in a field of publication, characterized by circulation, commentary, and archiving. They are subject to complex corporate toolchains, software updates, social media, etc. The work is no longer just the work but the entirety of this field. Publication is no longer a single event or a single thing. Think of this in terms of Luhmann’s systems theory: the differentiating distinction between artistic production and critical discourse is shifted; the difference made by artwork - its “poetics” - is now systematically linked to critical discourse.
Elisabeth Nesheim - 04.10.2013 - 11:55
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Remediating a Hyperfiction in ePub3: When Digital Literature Meets Publishing Models - The Case of Children’s Literature with The Tower of Jezik
Many publishers—pure players or “traditional” publishers—are now exploring the field of digital literatures by producing enhanced e-books aimed at young readers. Whether they are ePub3 e-books or apps for mobile devices, more and more of these digital works are created for commercial purposes and try to settle in the cultural industry market by adapting to the evolution of digital reading. This new generation of publishers is only now discovering the poetic potential of hypertext narratives and the endless possibilities that derive from the hybridisation of text, image, sound and video. Yet they find themselves facing many obstacles throughout the design process. Psychologically, digital reading is often associated with disorientation, cognitive overload and discontinued ways of reading (as opposed to the immersive reading experience known with printed novels) (Gervais 1999 ; Baccino 2011). Economically, few examples of profitable models exist. Technically, many constraints emerge, on the one hand from the open and standardised ePub format, on the other from the ideology imposed by the software and hardware industry.
Hannah Ackermans - 03.11.2015 - 11:35
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Digital Artists' Books and Augmented Fictions: A New Field in Digital Literature?
Digital literature is enjoying profitable and exciting times, made possible by emerging trends in digital publishing, as well as a growing enthusiasm on behalf of readers, publishers and authors for all forms of digital literary productions. These new players, who often come from traditional publishing, are discovering with great interest the literary and creative potential offered by touchscreen mobile devices. They are also exploring emerging new ways of writing and conceiving literary objects designed to be read on tablets, defined as “digital books”.
While homothetic books for e-readers such as .pdf and .epub files only imitate the characteristics of paper books, digital books conceived as “augmented” or “enhanced” combine text, sounds, and fixed or animated images in order to create a heterogenous work meant to be read, watched, handled, listened to and experimented with.
Hannah Ackermans - 10.11.2015 - 09:45
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Forging Paths with the Experience of Producing E-books for Children in Brazil
As publishers of children’s e-books – the first publishing house of exclusively digital books for children in Brazil – we are part of an editorial market consolidated for centuries and, at the same time, we participate in the production of digital contents, which puts our hybrid production in a point of union between past and future. (…) The experience we are building with this publishing house of children’s e-books in the present political, social and cultural context in Brazil unites transdisciplinary pedagogical and editorial knowledge, using them as instruments that allow the maintenance of what historically is understood as children’s literature: a space for varied languages and many authorships.
(Source: Abstract ICDMT 2016)
Hannah Ackermans - 08.12.2016 - 15:11
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Building Community through a Digital Literature Archive: The Case of Ciberia Project
Ciberia Project has emerged around the creation of Ciberia, a digital archive dedicated to digital literature in Spanish, with the purpose of making its contents more widely shared and fostering community building around digital literature. This project in-tends to function as a platform for a community interested and/or specialized in new creative forms of literary publishing, using the Ciberia database as the confluence point and origin of collective interaction, creation and reflection on digital literature and its ramifications in the field of literary publishing. This paper provides a descrip-tion of the digital library Ciberia, and its spin-off, the web platform Ciberia Project, offering a detailed account of their structure and potentialities.
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Hannah Ackermans - 19.11.2018 - 10:03
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Introduction to Post-Digital: Dialogues and Debates from the Electronic Book Review Book Launch
Joseph's Tabbi's talk introducing "Post Digital: Dialogues and Debates from the Electronic Book Review," new two-volume collection of essays edited by Joseph Tabbi documenting highlights of 20 years of essays one of the longest-running open-access research journals focused on literature and culture after the digital turn.
Scott Rettberg - 17.09.2020 - 15:33
