Proposal Title
Electronic Literature Support Group (netprov)
Submission Type
Virtual Engagement Session
Abstract
After decades of development, works of electronic literature are fed-up with the way they are treated. At once lauded and despised, ignored and overanalyzed, it is time we finally hear from the e-lit works themselves. In this netprov, you are each the personification of a creative work sharing your troubles and asking other works for advice.
On our Discord channel #ElectronicLiteratureSupportGroup, you are invited to share your issues, whether you are a remixed combinatory poem with a limited sense of self, a 3rd generation work with an inferiority complex, or a classic hypertext novel with abandonment issues.
This netprov will take place over the course of the ELO conference, with a guiding instruction each day, but the main premise is that your character is a work of e-it and you talk to other works of e-lit.
I can recommend this netprov for all e-lit enthusiasts, but particularly if you are teaching an e-lit module and would like a fun assignment. To facilitate this further, I share my teaching tutorial with the participants afterwards.
Electronic Literature Support Group (netprov)
After decades of development, works of electronic literature are fed-up with the way they are treated. At once lauded and despised, ignored and overanalyzed, it is time we finally hear from the e-lit works themselves. In this netprov, you are each the personification of a creative work sharing your troubles and asking other works for advice.
On our Discord channel #ElectronicLiteratureSupportGroup, you are invited to share your issues, whether you are a remixed combinatory poem with a limited sense of self, a 3rd generation work with an inferiority complex, or a classic hypertext novel with abandonment issues.
This netprov will take place over the course of the ELO conference, with a guiding instruction each day, but the main premise is that your character is a work of e-it and you talk to other works of e-lit.
I can recommend this netprov for all e-lit enthusiasts, but particularly if you are teaching an e-lit module and would like a fun assignment. To facilitate this further, I share my teaching tutorial with the participants afterwards.
Bio
Hannah Ackermans is a PhD candidate in Digital Culture at the University of Bergen in Norway. Ackermans researches the social and technological aspects of academic digital practices in the field of electronic literature, in order to provide insights into digital tools as theory-building methodologies in the humanities. In addition to their research and teaching record in electronic literature and digital humanities, Ackermans was co-director of the Digital Humanities Network at the University of Bergen throughout 2019 and is a member of the ELMCIP Knowledge Base editorial board.