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

Social Media Content for Stephanie Strickland's "True North"

As with the previous 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 Barber performed the Traversal, Grigar moderated the live YouTube chat and later the question and answer session documented in the videos on this page. After the event Schiller prepared a Storify site to gather social media posts and screen captures of the YouTube Chat. 

Facebook
We used three locations on Facebook to post for this event: 1) the site Grigar set up in 2013 for the Pathfinders project, entitled "elitpathfinders,"  with 245 followers, 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 shares a fun fact about Stephanie Strickland.

The following post is an invitation for viewers to join the Q/A portion of the event.

The next post provides details about Stephanie Strickland's map for "True North".

Pathfinders posted a quote from Stephanie Strickland about her work.

The following post shares a link to Stephanie Strickland's Traversal for "True North".

The following post is another announcement for Stephanie Strickland's upcoming Traversal for "True North".

The following tweet shares a link to Stephanie Strickland's Traversal for "True North".

The Electronic Literature Lab posted a quote from Stephanie Strickland about her work.

The Electronic Literature Lab tweeted a fun-fact about Strickland's work "True North".

The Electronic Literature Lab posted a quote from Stephanie Strickland about her work.

The Electronic Literature Lab tweeted a fun-fact about Strickland's work "True North" regarding the design of her maps. 

The Electronic Literature Lab posted a tweet regarding one major theme in Strickland's work "True North".

This post is an invitation for viewers to join the Q/A portion of the event.

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

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

YouTube Chat
We use YouTube to distribute the live stream of our Traversals. YouTube has a chat feature that allows participants in the live stream to communicate with us and each other as the work is traversed and during the question and answer session. We have preserved the record of that conversation here.

Link: http://dtc-wsuv.org/ELL/kendallYouTubeChatComplete.jpg

Storify
We found Storify useful as a tool for pulling together all of the Facebook and Twitter posts into one interface. While our story could have been exported as a .pdf or made into a screen capture, the output is not an accurate representation of the original format and presents other display issues. Instead, Nicholas opted to export the story to HTML, save the content locally, and then host it on our web server. Weeks into our project, the developers of Storify announced that the site would not be continued after May 2018, which means we will not have access to this tool in future stages of our project.

Link: https://framastory.org/story/nnschiller/live-traversal-of-robert-kendall-s-a-life-set-for-two-1

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