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1. The Possibilities of Illness Narratives in Virtual Reality for Bodies at the Margins

   Through decades of scholarly analysis and application, the practice of illness narratives has been established as an effective therapeutic intervention for dealing with illness-related emotional well-being (Couser; Frank; Irvine and Charon). Scholars of illness narratives argue that the medium works to bring agency back to the body following the neoliberal relinquishing of one’s life story in the patient-physician encounter. Contemporary scholarly work is mapping the growth of illness narrative forms from the traditional book to emerging digital-born narratives; however, there is limited research on the medium’s intersection with virtual reality (VR) technologies. Working with Marie-Laure Ryan’s theoretical framework of possible worlds theory, this paper explores the transformative potential of VR illness narratives for pathologized identities found when VR resists the call to fall into one of two categories: pure transhumanism where VR reality is emancipated from actual reality or an artificial experience that has no lasting effect on the self.

   Astrid Ensslin - 31.08.2022 - 13:39

2. Developing a Choice-Based Digital Fiction for Body Image Bibliotherapy

   Body dissatisfaction is so common in the western world that it has become the norm, especially among women and girls. Writing New Body Worlds is a transdisciplinary research-creation project that aims to address these issues by developing an interactive digital fiction for body image bibliotherapy. It is created with the critical co-design participation of a group of young women and non-binary individuals (aged 18–25) from diverse backgrounds, who are representative of its intended audience. This article discusses how our participant research influenced the creative development of the digital fiction, its characters and its novel ludonarrative or story-game design. It theorizes how the specific affordances of a choice-based interactive narrative, that situates the reader-player in the mind of the fictional protagonist, may lead to enhanced empathic identification and agency and, therefore, a more profoundly immersive and potentially transformative experience.

   Astrid Ensslin - 31.08.2022 - 13:49

3. Canonizing Hypertext: Explorations and Constructions

   This dissertation was published by Continuum/Bloomsbury in 2007 - see separate entry.

   Astrid Ensslin - 16.09.2022 - 12:20

4. "These Waves …:" Writing New Bodies for Applied E-literature Studies

   N. Katherine Hayles introduced the Electronic Literature concept of second generation hypermedia, characterized by their distinctive, multimodal, en enable by newly evolving, browser-based editing and network technologies vis-a-vis stand-alone, first generation, pre-web hypertext works, which were largely monomodal-verbal and followed a somewhat booking aesthetic.
   All the electronic literature generations are overlapping, the co-exist, respond to and feed off one another - similar to, and perhaps as contested as, the so-called waves of feminism.

   Given the sheer explosion of technological developments,  is important that all reach beyond their own disciplinary boundaries and into non-academic communities. 

   It is focused on the particular case of young woman’s body image, or, more precisely and inclusively, on body image in young, women-identified and gender non-conforming individuals, sawing how girls at six already express body dissatisfaction, provoking high risk for developing eating and body related distresses (Watson, Veale and Saewyc).  

   María Fernández García - 28.09.2022 - 19:34

5. Research Methods for Auto/biography Studies

   Research Methods for Auto/biography Studies

   Andrea Brandmüller - 28.01.2023 - 15:21

6. Reading Digital Lives Generously

   The scale, scope, privacy, ephemerality, and “amateurism” of prevailing modes of digital self-representation pose challenges for scholars seeking to understand these phenomena. In this chapter, we draw on our experiences as researchers and editors to outline methodological approaches that can address these challenges. We advocate for a “generous” critical engagement with digital life narratives that welcomes methods and concepts from other disciplines while reaffirming the ongoing commitment of auto/biography studies to an inclusive view of what counts as a “life” and what signs of life—however transient, fragmentary, and enigmatic—we are willing to learn how to read.

   (Source: Reading Digital Lives Generously | 18 | Research Methodologies for Aut (taylorfrancis.com) accessed Jan 28, 2023)

   Andrea Brandmüller - 28.01.2023 - 15:21

7. Digital Narrative Spaces: An Interdisciplinary Examination

   Digital Narrative Spaces: An Interdisciplinary Examination

   Astrid Ensslin - 28.01.2023 - 15:27

8. Transmedial Unnatural Spatiality and Postdigital Dystopicalization in The Pickle Index

   Transmedial Unnatural Spatiality and Postdigital Dystopicalization in The Pickle Index

   Astrid Ensslin - 28.01.2023 - 15:27

9. Letter From Porto ELO Conference July, 2017

   Documentation of some papers from the July, 2017 ELO Conference in Porto, Portugal

   Johannah Rodgers - 15.02.2023 - 00:17

10. Digital Realism

    Digital Realism

    David Wright - 22.02.2023 - 12:12

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