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The Reader as Author as Figure as Text
The paper takes a short look at the much discussed dismissal of the author in hypertext collaborative writing and discusses the role of authorship in three German collaborative writing projects. The results are: 1. Collaboration sometimes works like collaboration with the 'enemy.' The pleasure of some collaborative writing projects therefore comes not so much from the story itself as from what the text reveals about its authors. 2. The attraction of some collaborative writing project lies in the setting more than in the contributed texts. What fails as Netliterature may get a second chance as Netart. 3. If the program of a collaborative writing project automatically and randomly creates the links and develops the structure of the whole, it takes over the collaboration between authors and their texts. The conclusion is: As the text itself becomes more and more part of a technical setting, and as the program moves more and more into the center, the project of collaborative writing increasingly dismisses the reader. To a user who accidentally stops by and starts to read, the text itself doesn't say all that much.
Patricia Tomaszek - 14.09.2010 - 12:19
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Teaching Digital Literature within a “Research and Teaching Partnership” in a Transatlantic Blended Learning Environment
This paper outlines the practices of teaching digital literature at the University of Siegen in Germany where Peter Gendolla and Joergen Schaefer taught courses on literature in computer-based media for students of both Literary and Media Studies. This paper thus provides an historical synopsis of the didactical transformations the teaching practices have undergone as well as an overview of the University’s profile and its focus on research and teaching literary studies. In 2007, the classroom moved online and held a class transatlantically in cooperation with Roberto Simanowski (Brown University/Providence, RI, USA). The online course approached an experimental Blended Learning concept. The paper introduces the methodological concept of the class “Digital Aesthetics” and discusses using Online Communication Systems in the context of the course of studies: Net Literature.
Eric Dean Rasmussen - 27.01.2011 - 16:52
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The Oulipo: Constraints and Collaboration
The Oulipo: Constraints and Collaboration
Patricia Tomaszek - 24.02.2011 - 11:41
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False Pretenses, Parasites, and Monsters
A meditation on parasites and montrosity in American novels and hypertext fictions.
Eric Dean Rasmussen - 15.03.2011 - 15:57
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All Together Now: Collective Knowledge, Collective. Narratives, and Architectures of Participation
This essay is an exploration of the history and methodologies of collective narrative projects, and their relationship to collective knowledge projects and methodologies. By examining different forms of conscious, contributory, and unwitting participation, the essay attempts to develop a richer understanding of successful large-scale collaborative projects. The essay then examines large-scale architectures of participation in Wikipedia and Flickr to extrapolate from those observations potential methodologies for the creation of collective narratives.
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Scott Rettberg - 26.03.2011 - 18:08
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Editing the Electronic Literature Collection, Volume Two
A report on the issues and challenges, both conceptual and technical, the four-member editorial team (Laura Borràs, Talan Memmott, Rita Rayley, and Brian Kim Stefans) faced when assembling a collection of sixty works of electronic literature that aspired to be representative of a diverse, international field of literary practice.
Eric Dean Rasmussen - 05.04.2011 - 12:20
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Not Just Text
An interview with Steve Tomasula about his new/media novel TOC.
Scott Rettberg - 26.04.2011 - 23:24
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Electronic Authorship, Collaboration, Community, and Practice
Community has been a central focus of my career in the field of electronic literature, particularly in helping to shape and structure the Electronic Literature Organization, a USA-based nonprofit organization central to the field, and more recently as project leader of ELMCIP: Electronic Literature as a Model of Creativity and Innovation and Practice. I consider practical research and artistic community development vital to the creation of a persistent environment that enables network-based creative communities. When creative communities and research communties are not geographically co-located, institutional identities, online publications, directories, and knowledge bases, and in-person conferences, festivals, and events provide for a kind of floating agora that enables creative community to thrive across borders.
Eric Dean Rasmussen - 08.09.2011 - 16:45
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Making Connections Visible: Building a Knowledge Base for Electronic Literature
Developing a Network-Based Creative Community: Electronic Literature as a Model of Creativity and Innovation in Practice (ELMCIP) is a collaborative research project funded by the Humanities in the European Research Area (HERA) JRP for Creativity and Innovation. Focusing on the electronic literature community in Europe as a model of networked creativity and innovation in practice, ELMCIP is intended both to study the formation and interactions of that community and also to further electronic literature research and practice in Europe. The ELMCIP Knowledge Base is a publicly accessible online database that focuses on capturing core bibliographic data and archival materials about authors, creative works, critical writing, events, organizations, publishers, and teaching resources and on making visible the connections between creative and scholarly activities in the field.
This presentation will focus on three aspects of the ELMCIP Knowledge Base in particular:
1) Cross-referencing to make visible the emergence of creative and scholarly communities of practice
Eric Dean Rasmussen - 13.09.2011 - 15:42
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All Together Now: Hypertext, Collective Narrative, and Online Collective Knowledge Communities
Revision of essay previously titled "All Together Now: Collective Knowledge, Collective. Narratives, and Architectures of Participation."
This essay explores the history and methodologies of collective narrative projects, and their relationship to collective knowledge projects and methodologies. By examining different forms of conscious, contributory, and unwitting participation, the essay develops a richer understanding of successful large-scale collaborative projects. The essay then examines large-scale architectures of participation in Wikipedia and Flickr to extrapolate from those observations potential methodologies for the creation of collective narratives.
Scott Rettberg - 14.10.2011 - 13:01
