Textual Environments and Reader Mediations in Electronic Literature
Élika Ortega
Institute for Digital Research in the Humanities
University of Kansas
@elikaortega
elikaortega@ku.edu
Between Page and Screen (2012)
The Case for the Burial of Ancestors (1985)
Vniverse (2002 & 2014)
Textual Environment
- Print component & Electronic component
- Push back on protocols of communication of each media object
- Produces its own meaning-making logic
- Creates pecific reading conditions
The Case for the Burial of Ancestors
The Case for the Burial of Ancestors
Vniverse
Vniverse
Vniverse
Between Page and Screen
Reading instructions/
Speculative handling
Preliminaries
(not conclusions)
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complexity and intricacy of the literary and publishing media ecology
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modification of the practices and protocols associated with each of its material components
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radically historicized media genre of e-lit
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specific conditions of each one constitute a laboratory to investigate contemporary changing reading and writing practices