Category Archives for Electronic literature
Diversity at ELO2015: Global voices and gender balance
We’re hosting ELO2015: The End(s) of Electronic Literature here at the University of Bergen this week, and we are so excited to see everyone beginning to arrive! We’ve got a fabulous academic program lined up, as well as a series … Continue reading
Video presentations of electronic literature
I’m contributing to an online course Jon Hoem is coordinating on media-rich ebooks, and I’m making video presentations and mini analyses of some examples of electronic literature. My first try was Blast Theory’s fictional life coaching app Karen (2013), mostly because … Continue reading
Writing photographs (#1YearNoCam)
The visual turn on the internet has been evident for a few years now. Our cameras are computers, always in our pockets, always connected to the internet. We share photos in conversation, in seduction, for a laugh, to make a … Continue reading
New paper: Visualising Networks of Electronic Literature: Dissertations and the Creative Works They Cite
Over the last year I’ve spent many hours going through dissertations on electronic literature, entering information about them and the creative works they cite into the ELMCIP Electronic Literature Knowledge Base so that I could visualize the networks of works. … Continue reading
Is a network analysis of cited works bound to be biased?
This blog post was selected for the “Editor’s Choice” section of Digital Humanities Now. Thanks! It’s much, much easier to see patterns and to make visualizations that make sense when you filter out all the messy bits. In my data … Continue reading
The shift in genres of electronic literature 2002-2013
These two visualisations show the shift in the kinds of works discussed in dissertations on electronic literature. There’s been a clear movement towards digital poetry and also towards more specialized dissertations that discuss a single subgenre. The analysis will be … Continue reading
No digital texts in English literature classes, please! Digital dualism and educational policy
I hadn’t realised that the UK curriculum for GCSE English Literature (for 14-16 year olds) explicitly excludes any kind of electronic literature, as Alexander Pask-Hughes writes in a post on Cyborgology today. He quotes the proposed content descriptions – I … Continue reading
Tutorial: How to explore a network graph of electronic literature in Gephi
Update July 2014: a newer dataset is available that includes 44 dissertations (here is the gephi file), and the final paper is now published: Rettberg, Jill Walker. 2014. “Visualising Networks of Electronic Literature: Dissertations and the Creative Works They Cite.” … Continue reading
Figshare for sharing academic papers with their datasets
My paper for Chercher le texte, the Electronic Literature Organization’s 2013 conference in Paris next month, is about ready and I’ve uploaded it to the ELO conference website and to Figshare. Figshare was new to me. It’s an open access non-peer-reviewed … Continue reading
Busy start of sabbatical: joint course, e-lit exhibition, visualisation seminar, kids!
So busy. Last week was a wonderfully fun and inspiring intensive summer class, Collaborative Creativity in New Media, with ten US and ten Norwegian students as well as wonderful faculty: Rob Wittig, Joellyn Rock, Sandy Baldwin and Rod Coover as … Continue reading
