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Conference Talk - Individual
Abstract
This short presentation surveys the findings from a new phase of the Transverse Reading Project, a project to compile a comprehensive, historically deep "atlas" of the structures of interactive stories. While early phases of the project initially focused on the long history of print gamebooks, hypertext fictions, visual novels, and Twine games, this phase focuses on the unique technical challenges and strange forms encountered when surveying hypertext authoring practices across online forums and distributed social media platforms -- what Jill Walker Rettberg (revising Jim Rosenberg) terms "feral hypertexts". In particular, it focuses on interactive writing in online fan fiction archives such as Archive Of Our Own (AO3) and FanFiction.net.
For more information, please see: https://jeremydouglass.github.io/transverse‐gallery/gallery.html
Feral Hyperfic: surveying discontinuous hypertext fiction communities
This short presentation surveys the findings from a new phase of the Transverse Reading Project, a project to compile a comprehensive, historically deep "atlas" of the structures of interactive stories. While early phases of the project initially focused on the long history of print gamebooks, hypertext fictions, visual novels, and Twine games, this phase focuses on the unique technical challenges and strange forms encountered when surveying hypertext authoring practices across online forums and distributed social media platforms -- what Jill Walker Rettberg (revising Jim Rosenberg) terms "feral hypertexts". In particular, it focuses on interactive writing in online fan fiction archives such as Archive Of Our Own (AO3) and FanFiction.net.
For more information, please see: https://jeremydouglass.github.io/transverse‐gallery/gallery.html
Bio
Jeremy Douglass is Associate Professor of English at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is director of Digital Arts and Humanities Commons , a interdisciplinary co-working space for digital scholarship, pedagogy, and creative practice. He is co-author, with Jessica Pressman and Mark C. Marino, of Reading Project: A Collaborative Analysis of William Poundstone’s Project for Tachistoscope {Bottomless Pit} (Iowa UP, 2015), and co-author, with Montfort et. al, of 10 PRINT CHR$(205.5+RND(1)); : GOTO 10 (The MIT Press, 2012). Douglass conducts research on interactive narrative, electronic poetry, and games, with a focus on the methods of software studies, critical code studies, and cultural analytics. His work has been supported by the NEH Office of Digital Humanities, MacArthur Foundation, Mellon Foundation, ACLS, Calit2, HASTAC, and NERSC.