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Rebooting Electronic Literature, Volume 2: Documenting Pre-Web Born Digital Media

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Social Media Content for Stephanie Strickland's "True North"
As with all Live Stream Traversals, the undergraduate researchers had notes from Grigar's research on hand to feed content into the social media conversations. They also took photographs, mixing in prepared research on the work and its criticism with observations, comments, and interactions with other participants. While Strickland performed her Traversal, Grigar moderated the live YouTube chat and later the Q&A session.

Facebook
We used three locations on Facebook to post for this event: 1) the site Grigar set up in 2013 for the Pathfinders project, 2) the Electronic Literature Organization's page with over 1600 members, and 3) Grigar's personal site. ELL Team members with a Facebook page also posted to their personal sites.

This post explains Strickland's love for radio as a modality, as it diversifies her focus.

The following post is an invitation for viewers to join the Q/A portion of Strickland's traversal on March 25, 2019.

The next post presents an image of Stephanie Strickland's map for "True North," which was created in collaboration with Deena Larsen.

Pathfinders posted a quote from Stephanie Strickland about how her work "the pressure language practice puts on women's bodies."

The following post shares a link to Stephanie Strickland's Traversal for "True North" on March 25, 2019. An image of the 2019 traversal schedule is also included.

Here is yet another announcement for Stephanie Strickland's upcoming Traversal for "True North". Included is an image of Stephanie Strickland and the folio cover of "True North."

The following tweet shares a link to Stephanie Strickland's Traversal for "True North." ELL's 2019 traversal schedule is attached.

The Electronic Literature Lab posted that "True North" loops back to certain sections by selecting links about guidance.

The Electronic Literature Lab tweeted that "True North" was published in three forms in 1997: a print book of poetry, Storyspace hypertext, and a web poem.

The Electronic Literature Lab posted that "True North" is born from her interest in finding a language built for women. It is accompanied by an image of the folio's interior and contents.

The Electronic Literature Lab tweeted that Stephanie Strickland and Deena Larsen put a good deal of effort into designing the maps for "True North."

The Electronic Literature Lab tweeted that one of the main themes of "True North" is the concept of "embeddedness" or "nestedness." The other was the "American heritage of formal structuring devices that are at once abstract and graphical."

This post is an invitation for viewers to join the Q/A portion of the event in March, with ELL's traversal schedule attached.

This post shares a tweet regarding Strickland's original visualization for "True North" in 3D.

The Electronic Literature Lab shares a post about Strickland's favorite modality: radio.

Instagram

Here, viewers are invited to join the live traversal of Stephanie Strickland's "True North" at 12 pm. An image of her book cover is included.

This Instagram story shows that "True North" was published in three forms: as a printed book, as a Storyspace hypertext, and as a web poem. An image of two of these forms (book and hypertext) are shown beneath the caption.

This story shares that "True North" was published by Eastgate systems.

Here, a short bio is provided regarding Stephanie Strickland. She was born in Detroit, and obtained her B.A. from Harvard, her MFA from Sara Lawrence, and an MS from the Pratt Institute of Technology.

This Instagram Story reveals that Strickland preferred creating works on PCs rather than macs, even though the latter was preferred by artists for their graphical quality.

This is a screenshot of Stephanie Strickland traversing "True North" on the iMac G4 (also known as the "Lampshade.)

A quote by Stephanie Strickland is shared as an Instagram Story, who says that the work "explores the pressure language practice puts on women's bodies."

This Instagram post explains that Stephanie Strickland structured her visual map to resemble a woman's breast.

This post explains that Strickland originally envisioned her poem in a 3D environment.

An Instagram Story reveals that Stephanie Strickland was inspired to work on "True North" after attending an NEH summer seminar in 1995 by Katherine Hayles.

YouTube Chat

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