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Rebooting Electronic Literature: Documenting Pre-Web Born Digital Media
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Introduction to Rebooting Electronic Literature
Documentation of pre-web works of electronic literature from the library of the Electronic Literature Lab
Sarah Smith's "King of Space"
Documentation of Sarah Smith's hypertext novel, "King of Space"
David Kolb's "Socrates in the Labyrinth"
Documentation of David Kolb's hypertext essay "Socrates in the Labyrinth"
J. Yellowlees Douglas' "I Have Said Nothing"
Documentation of J. Yellowlees Douglas' hypertext novel, "I Have Said Nothing"
Thomas M. Disch’s "AMNESIA"
Documentation of Thomas M. Disch's interactive fiction "AMNESIA"
Rob Kendall’s "A Life Set for Two"
Documentation of Rob Kendall's hypertext "Life Set for Two"
Judy Malloy's "its name was Penelope"
The chapter on Judy Malloy's "its name was Penelope"
Mary-Kim Arnold's "Lust"
Documentation of Mary-Kim Arnold's hypertext fiction work, "Lust"
Authors' and Contributors' Bios
The bios of those who authored and produced Rebooting Electronic Literature
Dene Grigar
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Douglas, Pathfinders Facebook Post, Publishing Details
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Social Media Content for J. Yellowlees Douglas' "I Have Said Nothing"
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Screen captures of social media posts relating to the Traversal of J. Yellowlees Douglas' "I Have Said Nothing"
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By the time the Live Stream Traversal for Douglas's "I Have Said Nothing" took place, we had developed an efficient work flow for handling the event's social media component. The undergraduate researchers had prepared their notes from the research Grigar had done and her critical essay 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 Brand 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 Nicholas Schiller prepared a Storify site to gather social media posts and screen captures of the YouTube Chat. All of this material helps to further document the work and capture the audience experience with it.
Facebook
In order to foster a broad range of conversations through social media, we maintained three separate streams on Facebook : 1) the Pathfinders project site, entitled "elitpathfinders," with 245 followers, 2) the Electronic Literature Organization's page with over 1600 members, and 3) Grigar's own site. ELL Team members with a Facebook page also posted to their own sites.
The first few posts introduced the event and explained the work to the general public the day of the event.
The next few posts contain information about the work for the audience who do not have prior knowledge of I Have Said Nothing.
The following five posts provide background information on the four characters in the hypertext narrative.
The next post introduces the performer for the live Traversal.
The next few posts provide information about the author, J Yellowless Douglas.
The following posts offer background information about I Have Said Nothing and provide a link to view a portion of the work.
Two final posts to thank everyone involved in the Traversal.
Twitter
Similar to Facebook, we used three Twitter sites to stream our conversation: 1) Dene Grigar's own site that had over 2,800 followers, 2) Nicholas Schiller's site, with 2,200 followers and 3) ELL Team Member Veronica Whitney's site, with over 175 members. Whitney was in charge of posting and reposting on Twitter during the event. The hashtag we used was #elitpathfinders, as this hashtag has been used consistently through the project.
The first posts announce the event ahead of time using the hashtag #elitpathfinders.
The following posts provide details about I Have Said Nothing.
The following post is a question from the presenter of the live Traversal to the author of I Have Said Nothing.
Here we have provided a link that published a portion of I Have Said Nothing online so that the audience can read the story individually.
The author used social media to recognize and appreciate the live Traversal organized by the Pathfinders project.
YouTube Chat
As we used YouTube to distribute the live video stream from our Traversals, we also discovered that people watching the video enjoyed using YouTube's live chat feature to carry on conversations alongside the performance of the Traversal. We have captured the conversation from YouTube's chat feature at the following URL: http://dtc-wsuv.org/ELL/IHSN%20YouTube%20chat.png
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: http://dtc-wsuv.org/ELL/IHSNStorify/index.html
