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1. Immersion, Digital Fiction and the Switchboard Metaphor

   This paper re-evaluates existing theories of immersion and related concepts in the medium-specific context of digital-born fiction. In the context of our AHRC-funded ‘Reading Digital Fiction’ project (2014-17) (Ref: AH/K004174/1), we carried out an empirical reader response study of One to One Development Trust’s immersive three-dimensional (3D) digital fiction installation, WALLPAPER (2015). Working with reading groups in the Sheffield area (UK), we used methods of discourse analysis to examine readers’ verbal responses to experiencing the installation, paying particular attention to how participants described experiences pertaining to different types of immersion explicitly and implicitly. We explain our findings by proposing the idea of a switchboard metaphor for immersive experiences, comprising layers and dynamic elements of convergence and divergence. Resulting from our analysis, we describe immersion as a complex, hybrid, and dynamic phenomenon.

   Astrid Ensslin - 12.06.2019 - 22:45

2. Sound, Fury, and Consistency: Writing Recombinant Fiction

   Sound, Fury, and Consistency: Writing Recombinant Fiction

   David Wright - 28.08.2019 - 02:58

3. Narrating the Sociality of the Database: A Digital Hermeneutic Reading of The Atlas Group Archive and haikU (paper)

   In this paper, I investigate the database characteristics of electronic literature that makes them into social forms. Database structures are both fragmented and relational, displaying hypertext characteristics. I approach The Atlas Group Archive and haikU, two works of electronic literature, as examples of material and conceptual databases in order to explore the database function so saturated in our daily life. Both works highlight a database aesthetics, although the ways they do so are polar opposites. I analyze the works within the framework of digital hermeneutics, continuously considering the relationship between text and context, between parts and whole. I demonstrate how AGA is an explicit database, supposedly showing a 'complete' archive, whereas haikU is an implicit database that hides the corpus of sentences. I show the sociality of the databases, thematizing both the human process behind database formation as a whole, as well as how the individual elements influence the perception of the overall database.

   Hannah Ackermans - 03.12.2019 - 10:37

4. Electronic Literature in the Database and the Database in Electronic Literature

   Due to the constant threat of technological obsolescence, documentation practices of archiving and database construction are of vital importance, to warrant that artists and scholars can continue developing and understanding this field of practice and study. To this end, multiple e-lit databases are being developed in the context of research projects.
   Within the field of Digital Humanities, database construction is too often regarded merely as a preparatory task. But from the perspective of its developers, the e-lit database is both a research space, a form of dissemination, and a cultural artefact in itw own right. By no means neutral containers, database carry out diverse processes including storage, distribution, and exposition. Scholarship and artistic practice entangle: scholars attempt to document and research a field. Artists interrogate the database structure in their works, and the production of databases further develops the field, which leads to more (varied) creation and dissemination of electronic literature.

   Hannah Ackermans - 25.06.2020 - 13:33

5. Editor’s Note: Fall 2019

   I reflect on this edition I think about one of the major contemporary political issues of our time that reaches into the past and into the future.

   Nature. The Earth. Climate. The human body. The human soul.

   Lucila Mayol Pohl - 09.10.2020 - 12:08

6. Twitterature in Spanish: The Representation of Womanhood in La Mujer de M by Mauricio Montiel Figueiras

   Twitterature in Spanish: The Representation of Womanhood in La Mujer de M by Mauricio Montiel Figueiras

   Perla Sassón-Henry - 16.11.2020 - 22:55

7. Text is Mortal

   Text is Mortal

   Jeremy Hight - 07.03.2021 - 02:19

8. Editorial: the datafication of education

   Editorial: the datafication of education

   Daniel Johannes Flaten Rosnes - 17.06.2021 - 21:34

9. I Forced a Bot to Read over 1,000 Papers from Open Access Journals and Then Asked It to Write a Paper of Its Own. Here Is the Result. Or, a Quasi-Materialist Approach to Bot-Mimicry

   The article develops an approach for close reading of auto-generative writing agents (i.e. bots). It introduces the concept of bot-mimicry (a practice of writing in a bot-esque style), and argues that bot-mimicry inherently entails that reader and writer alike imagine a conceptual (fictional) bot which could have written the text. As such, it investigates the concept as a fruitful way of engaging with cultural, aesthetic and political conceptions and imaginaries surrounding bots. Furthermore, and through an example reading of the “Olive Garden tweet”, the paper develops, introduces and applies a quasi-materialist approach, where seemingly immaterial elements such as implicit conceptual bots are considered through a framework inspired by materialist media theory from the fields of software studies, media archaeology, and electronic
   literature.

   Malthe Stavning Erslev - 12.11.2021 - 10:06

10. Latin American Electronic Literature Created by Women

    Latin American Electronic Literature Created by Women

    Nohelia Meza - 07.12.2021 - 01:53

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