example of "e-literature" as "ebooks." Guardian.
Zach Whalen's course blog spring 12. Some interesting student commentary.
Hey all, here’s the PowerPoints we used for our classes on electronic literature and web design in case you wanted to look at some information again.
This is a wonderful code reading of the executable language and emotional resonances it activates. See conclusion: spouse always dies first and author's reflections on being caught up in story so didn't notice it as procedurally determined. See also the nice work on double the points for wandering after one is married, and his obs that "spouse" seems like dry language, stripped down of affect; but of course, such language provides maximal freedom to the player by not predetermining (at executable level) how desire works. Slam this excellent reading up against student's reading of Leishman's Possession of Christian Shaw, in which the reader's wandering through the story (touching her, touching everything) injures the protagonist. It's a horrible feeling. Disturbing in productive, feminist, if ultimately unplayable ways (I had to stop.) Compare this interactivity to spousal interactivity in Passage. Interesting obs: points may not be all that "significant" but may nevertheless, just by sheer dint of their reward, motivate further play.
Mark Marino and Rob Wittig create Twitterfic with a pedagogical orientation.
Note also: 33 Reflective responses posted as of 4/19/12
See all Tweets here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Aoa1_Z0xfeRRdDFSajZPNDk1clM5Y3YwemtzSkZ0NHc#gid=0
Student reflection on how s/he got emotionally connected to Rhorer's Gravitation (also small note about Passages and the CCS reading another student did of it.)
Ganter syllabus referred by Jim Andrews 20 Jan 13.