Submission Type

Virtual Engagement Session

Start Date

16-7-2020 12:00 AM

End Date

19-7-2020 12:00 AM

Abstract

ABOUT:

For this virtual engagement session of ELOrlando, participants will create and play a collaborative work of e-lit on Twitter, modeled after Choose Your Own Adventure-style hypertext fiction. This e-lit jam will run the course of the conference, from Thursday July 16-July 19, on the hashtag #TYSA (T[weet] Y[our] S[hared] A[dventure]). All Twitter users in the ELO community are invited to join.

HOW THIS JAM WILL JAM:

On the first day of the conference, the session’s organizer (Sarah Whitcomb Laiola, @DrSarathena192 on both Twitter and Discord) will tweet out on #ELOrlando and #TYSA the beginning of an adventure story. This story will be accompanied by:

  1. A poll where players / readers may vote on the next course of action in the story, to collaboratively participate in narrative play (the majority choice will be followed);

  2. The Twitter handle of another member of the ELOrlando conference community, who, through this tag, is nominated to provide the next stage of the story.

The nominated contributor, will then have two choices. They may (1) join the e-lit jam, and continue the story by REPLYing to the previous tweet with the next piece of the adventure, another poll of choices, and another nominee from the ELOrlando community to continue the story (and of course, the #TYSA tag); or (2) they may opt out, and REPLY instead by simply nominating another ELO community member to take on the narrative. The e-lit jam will continue in this way, with each tagged member contributing, through REPLYs, the next phase of the story and the next set of choice-based polls, so that by the end of the conference we will have a Twitter Thread containing the narrative.

As an example of what this might look like when it is done, see Kelly Hayes’ (@MsKellyMHayes) Choose Your Own Adventure style Twitter thread, which begins here: (https://twitter.com/MsKellyMHayes/status/1088487963997192192). The key difference between Hayes’ and ours, is that ours will be collaboratively authored as well as collaboratively played over the course of the conference.

SOME ADDITIONAL GUIDELINES:

To keep this going smoothly, please be cognizant of the following:

  • If you are nominated, please take care to REPLY to the previous tweet (the tweet containing your nomination) rather than Quote-Tweeting, in order to keep the Thread going. This will ensure that users who are nominated, but who may not have been following the story, will be able to “catch up” to the narrative easily and contribute accordingly.

  • Though the original tweet to start the narrative jam will be in English, if you are nominated, you may continue the narrative in any language.

  • Polls may run for any amount of time but 1-2 hours is generally recommended.

  • Be aware of the time zones in which you are tagging / contributing, and any other events that may be going on in the ELOrlando conference program. While this narrative jam may run asynchronously through any time zone, keep in mind the official conference time zone is US Eastern Time (EDT), so there will likely be more participants and traffic around polls and nominees during EDT “business hours.”

  • If you are nominated, please contribute or opt out in a timely manner so that the narrative game may go on.

  • Please feel free to reach out to the organizer (@DrSarathena192 on Twitter and Discord) via tag or direct message, who will act as moderator over the course of the narrative jam, if anything goes wrong. Please note: like Orlando, she is located in the US Eastern Time Zone.

  • Please remember to include the dedicated #TYSA hashtag on each contribution.

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Bio

Sarah Whitcomb Laiola is an assistant professor of Digital Culture and Design at Coastal Carolina University, where she specializes in new media poetics, visual culture, critical race and gender studies, and contemporary digital technocultures. Her recent peer-reviewed publications appear in Hyperrhiz (Fall 2019), Criticism (Jan 2019), American Quarterly (Sept 2018), and Television and New Media (July 2017).

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Jul 16th, 12:00 AM Jul 19th, 12:00 AM

Tweet Your Shared Adventure: An (Un)Continuous E-Lit Jam

ABOUT:

For this virtual engagement session of ELOrlando, participants will create and play a collaborative work of e-lit on Twitter, modeled after Choose Your Own Adventure-style hypertext fiction. This e-lit jam will run the course of the conference, from Thursday July 16-July 19, on the hashtag #TYSA (T[weet] Y[our] S[hared] A[dventure]). All Twitter users in the ELO community are invited to join.

HOW THIS JAM WILL JAM:

On the first day of the conference, the session’s organizer (Sarah Whitcomb Laiola, @DrSarathena192 on both Twitter and Discord) will tweet out on #ELOrlando and #TYSA the beginning of an adventure story. This story will be accompanied by:

  1. A poll where players / readers may vote on the next course of action in the story, to collaboratively participate in narrative play (the majority choice will be followed);

  2. The Twitter handle of another member of the ELOrlando conference community, who, through this tag, is nominated to provide the next stage of the story.

The nominated contributor, will then have two choices. They may (1) join the e-lit jam, and continue the story by REPLYing to the previous tweet with the next piece of the adventure, another poll of choices, and another nominee from the ELOrlando community to continue the story (and of course, the #TYSA tag); or (2) they may opt out, and REPLY instead by simply nominating another ELO community member to take on the narrative. The e-lit jam will continue in this way, with each tagged member contributing, through REPLYs, the next phase of the story and the next set of choice-based polls, so that by the end of the conference we will have a Twitter Thread containing the narrative.

As an example of what this might look like when it is done, see Kelly Hayes’ (@MsKellyMHayes) Choose Your Own Adventure style Twitter thread, which begins here: (https://twitter.com/MsKellyMHayes/status/1088487963997192192). The key difference between Hayes’ and ours, is that ours will be collaboratively authored as well as collaboratively played over the course of the conference.

SOME ADDITIONAL GUIDELINES:

To keep this going smoothly, please be cognizant of the following:

  • If you are nominated, please take care to REPLY to the previous tweet (the tweet containing your nomination) rather than Quote-Tweeting, in order to keep the Thread going. This will ensure that users who are nominated, but who may not have been following the story, will be able to “catch up” to the narrative easily and contribute accordingly.

  • Though the original tweet to start the narrative jam will be in English, if you are nominated, you may continue the narrative in any language.

  • Polls may run for any amount of time but 1-2 hours is generally recommended.

  • Be aware of the time zones in which you are tagging / contributing, and any other events that may be going on in the ELOrlando conference program. While this narrative jam may run asynchronously through any time zone, keep in mind the official conference time zone is US Eastern Time (EDT), so there will likely be more participants and traffic around polls and nominees during EDT “business hours.”

  • If you are nominated, please contribute or opt out in a timely manner so that the narrative game may go on.

  • Please feel free to reach out to the organizer (@DrSarathena192 on Twitter and Discord) via tag or direct message, who will act as moderator over the course of the narrative jam, if anything goes wrong. Please note: like Orlando, she is located in the US Eastern Time Zone.

  • Please remember to include the dedicated #TYSA hashtag on each contribution.

Download the final story using the "full text" link!