Week 3: Inanimate Alice

Alongside the critical readings for this week, I'd like you to make your way through as much of Inanimate Alice as you can. I recommend *reading* all available episodes (four) so that you can trace the changing trajectory and requirements on the part of the reader - one needs to become more and more *transliterate* to read the work.

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/)