Rebooting Electronic Literature: Documenting Pre-Web Born Digital Media

Social Media Content for Thomas M. Disch's AMNESIA

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.













This is a post that promoting Rebooting Electronic Literature. The post offers a link and informs the audience the AMNESIA chapter will be released soon.







This posts is thanking the presenter, Trevor Dodge, for playing in the live 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.

























Q&A









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://storify.com/nnschiller/live-traversal-of-thomas-m-disch-s-amnesia


 


 

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