Week 13: Distributive Publishing

Welcome #NMN students to the final week of our class.

We will be having our live chat Monday night 18:15 Mountain time (31st of March). Bring your questions about Assignment 3. You will have the week to complete the assignment.

You can find the assignment in our eclass moodle and via google docs.

Week 11: Co-Creation & Crowdsourcing

Week 11: Co-Creation or Crowdsourcing: Moving Beyond Multiple Choice

Required and Recommended Readings

This week we’ll talk about crowdsourcing and some models that work best. We’ll end with a discussion of how crowdsourcing has improved so that the final products are more viable.

n  Yannig Roth, (May 2012). “Crowdsourcing and Co-Creation are Complementary,” Innovation Excellence. http://www.innovationexcellence.com/blog/2012/05/31/crowdsourcing-and-co-creation-are-complementary/ n  Marjanovic, S., Fry, C., & Chataway, J. (2012). Crowdsourcing based business models: In search of evidence for innovation 2.0. Science & Public Policy (SPP), 39(3), 318-332. doi:10.1093/scipol/scs009 n  Zwass, V. (2010). Co-Creation: Toward a Taxonomy and an Integrated Research Perspective. International Journal Of Electronic Commerce, 15(1), 11-48. doi:10.2753/JEC1086-4415150101 n  Tom Foremski, “Cultivating a Smarter Crowd: Norwest’s Startups Move Byond Crowdsourcing (July 2013). http://www.siliconvalleywatcher.com/mt/archives/2013/07/cultivating_a_smarter.php n  Megan Mayhew Bergman, “A Literary Experiment: Crowdsourcing the Fate of a Girl,” (Sept. 2013). Beyond the Margins. http://beyondthemargins.com/2013/09/a-literary-experiment-crowdsourcing-the-fate-of-a-girl/

Week 4: Twitter Narratives

This week we are focussing on narratives using Twitter!

The required readings for this week:

n  Steve Buttry, (August 2009) “Riveting Twitter Narrative of Robotic Surgery at St. Luke’s” http://stevebuttry.wordpress.com/2009/08/31/riveting-twitter-narrative-of-robotic-surgery-at-st-lukes/

n  Andrew Fitzgerald (October 2013), “Adventures in Twitter Fiction, Ted Talks. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J6ZzmqDMhi0

n  Alena Smith, (October 2013), “Literary Parkour: @Hourse_ebooks, Jonathan Franzen and the Rise of Twitter Fiction,” Grandland, http://www.grantland.com/blog/hollywood-prospectus/post/_/id/89096/literary-parkour-horse_ebooks-jonathan-franzen-and-the-rise-of-twitter-fiction 

Excapite, (April 2013), “Facebook, Twitter and the new Fractal Narrative,” http://excapite.blogspot.ca/2013/04/facebook-twitter-and-new-fractal.html

#NMN and Twitter

Firstly, thank you all (well, almost all of you...) for participating online! You are practising new tools, perfecting your craft and refining your transliteracy skills. Additionally, by participating online, you are furnishing your online profile.

I've had several requests from students about how to follow fellow #NMN students on twitter. So, two things I'd like to ask:

1. Consider adding your twitter alias in a comment to this post so that we all can see and then follow fellow students. We have quite a few interested readers who are not part of our class (welcome interested readers!)
2. Remember to use the class hashtag, #NMN, when tweeting information pertinent to our class. I search for this tag, guest lecturers on our course will search for this tag and even previous students keep up to date with our developments by using this tag. It's a good way to keep our information organised.

Week 3: Digital Literature[s]

Week 3: Digital Literature[s]

Required and Recommended Readings

This week we’ll have an overview of digital literature touching on the early days of hypertext and pointing to born digital fictions. Key Questions & Ideas: ★What is literature? ★Are blogs narratives? ★How is multimodal online narrative different from print narrative?

n  “Electronic Literature Seen from a Distance The Beginnings of a Field,” Jill Walker Rettberg (http://www.dichtung-digital.org/2012/41/walker-rettberg/walker-rettberg.htm) n  Judy Malloy, “Hypernarrative in the Age of the Web,” http://www.well.com/user/jmalloy/neapaper.html n  The Blog as Narrative Form (mediajunk): http://www.mediajunk.com/proposal/proposal.html n  Kate Pullinger and Chris Joseph, Inanimate Alice. www.inanimatealice.com    Recommended: Milana Knezevic, “Challenging mainstream narratives with social media,” (May 2013), (http://www.indexoncensorship.org/2013/05/kenya-social-media-muslimrage-twitter/)

Week 2: Print Culture & Publishing

To help put our readings in context, you might like to begin by listening to this podcast on the changing face of publishing.

Week 2: Print Culture

Week 2: Making/Publishing History: Printing of THE Book

Required and Recommended Readings

Key Questions & Ideas: ★The history of the book ★The end of books (!?) ★The net_reading/writing_condition ★What are some current views about the emergence and diffusion of media?

n  “The Desktop Revolution,” Howard Brabyn, P. 16-19 (http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0007/000796/079609eo.pdf) n  Elizabeth Eisenstein, (1995). The End of the Book? Some Perspectives on Media Change. American Scholar, 64541-555. n  “Pulp Fiction as Typography,” Jarratt Moody (Feb. 2007). (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wF8f8w6HPoo) n  Preston, Peter, “The writing is on the paywall – but the end of print is not quite nigh,” The Guardian (Dec. 2012). (http://www.theguardian.com/media/2012/dec/30/writing-on-paywall-end-of-print)    Recommended: Clement, Richard W. (1997). “Medieval and Renaissance Book Production,” Part II: The Printed Book. P 13-18 (http://digitalcommons.usu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1010&context=lib_pubs)