So You Want to be a New Media Writer?

led by Gavin Stewart - Nottingham Trent University -22nd November 2006

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Introductory References

Dorner, Jane (2001) The Internet: A Writer's Guide 2nd Edition London, A & C Black

Meadows, Mark Stephen (2003) Pause and Effect: the Art of Interactive Narrative, Indianapolis, New Riders.

Negroponte, Nicholas (1995) Being Digital London, Hodder and Stoughton

Thomas, Sue (2004) Hello World:Travels in Virtuality, York, Raw Nerve Books

Wise, Richard (2000) Multimedia: A Critical Introduction, London and New York, Routledge.


Follow-up Reading

Aarseth, Espen J (1997) Cybertext: Perspectives on Ergodic Literature, Baltimore and London, The John Hopkins University Press

Block, Friedrich W., Heiback, Christiane and Wenz, Karin eds (2004) pOes1s: The Aesthetics of Digital Poetry (edited by Friedrich W. Block, Christiane Heibach & Karin Wenz), Ostfildern-Ruit, Hatje Cantz.

 Bolter, Jay David (2001) Writing Space: Computers, Hypertext and the Remediation of Print - 2nd Edition, Mahwah, NJ and London, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Publishers

Campbell, Andy (2002) ‘Digital Fiction: New Media Writing in Flash’ available at http://www.digitalfiction.co.uk/digitalfiction/paper_sorbonne.htm (last viewed 17th November 2006)

Coover, Robert (1992) ‘The End of Books’ in The New York Times Review of Books, June 21st, 1992, also available at http://www.tnellen.com/ted/endofbooks.html (last viewed 17th November 2006)

Coover, Robert (1999) ‘Literary Hypertext: The Passing of the Golden Age’
Keynote Address delivered on 29th October 1999 at the Digital Arts and Culture Conference at Atlanta, Georgia available at http://nickm.com/vox/golden_age.html (last viewed 17th November 2006).

Douglas, J Yellowlees (2000) The End of Books - Or Books without End; reading interactive narratives, Ann Arbor, The University of Michigan Press

Gaggi, Silvio (1997)  From Text to Hypertext; Decentrering the Subject in Fiction, Film, the Visual Arts, and Electronic Media , Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvannia Press.

Glazier, Loss Pequeño (2002) Digital Poetics: The making of E-Poetries, Tuscaloosa, The University of Alabama Press.

Greene, Rachel (2004) Internet Art, London and New York, Thames and Hudson: World of Art

Guertin, Carolyn (1998) ‘Three Generations of Hypertext: An overview of Feminist Hypertext's Subversive Honeycombings’ in Beehive Volume 1 Number 2 ,July 1998 available at http://beehive.temporalimage.com/archive/12arc.html (last viewed 17th November 2006)

Hartman, Charles O. (1996) Virtual Muse: experiments in computer poems, Baltimore, Wesleyan University Press.

Hayles, N. Katherine (2002) Writing Machines, Cambridge, Mass, MIT Press.

Herrington, TyAnna K. (2001) Controlling Voice: Intellectual Property, Humanistic Studies and the Internet, Carbondale and Edwardsville, Southern Illinois University Press.

Holtzman, Stephen (1997) Digital Mosaics: The Aesthetics of Cyberspace, New York, Simon & Schuster

Howard, Peter (2002) Flash Poetry trAce On-line Writing Centre - Opinion October 2002, available at http://tracearchive.ntu.ac.uk/opinion/index.cfm?article=22 (last viewed 17th November 2006).

Jordan, Tim (1999) Cyberpower: The Culture and Politics of Cyberspace and the Internet London Routledge

Joseph, Chris (2003) ‘dada2data’ published at Process: trAce On-line Writing Centre available at http://tracearchive.ntu.ac.uk/Process/index.cfm?article=89 ( last viewed 17th November 2006).

Joyce, Michael (1995) Of Two Minds: Hypertext Pedagogy and Poetics, Ann Arbor, University of Michigan Press

Kac, Eduardo (1999) ‘Negotiating Meaning: The Dialogic Imagination in Electronic Art’ in Proceedings of Computers in Art and Design Education Conference, Middlesbrough, University of Teesside. This paper is also available at http://www.holonet.khm.de/ekac/dialogicimag.html (last viewed 17th November 2006).

Landow, George P ed.(1994) Hypertext Theory Baltimore and London, The John Hopkins University Press.

Landow, George P (1997) Hypertext 2.0: The Convergence of Contemporary Critical Theory and Technology, Baltimore and London, The John Hopkins Press.

Landow, George P (2004) ‘Is this hypertext any good?’ in dichtung-digital Volume 3/2004, available at http://www.dichtung-digital.com/2004/3/Landow/index.htm (last viewed 17th November 2006)

Lanham, Richard A. (1993) The Electronic Word: Democracy, Technology and the Arts, Chicago and London, University of Chicago Press.

Liestøl, Gunnar, Morrison, Andrew and Rasmussen, Terje (2003) Digital Media Revisited: Theoretcial and Conceptual Innovations in Digital Domains, Cambridge and London, MIT Press

Lunenfeld,Peter (2000) The Digital Dialectic; New Essays on New Media , Cambridge, Mass and London, MIT Press

McLuhan, Marshall (1964) Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man, New York, McGraw Hill

Miller, Laura (1998) ‘Bookend; www.claptrap.com’ published in New York Times, Sunday March 15th, 1998, New York. This article is also available at http://query.nytimes.com/search/restricted/article?res=F6091EF735550C768DDDAA0894D0494D81 (last viewed 17th November 2006).

Mitchie, Donald & Johnson, Rory (1984) The Creative Computer: Machine Intelligence and Human Knowledge Harmondsworth, Viking.

Murray, Janet H (1997) Hamlet on the Holodeck: The Future of Narrative in Cyberspace, Cambridge Mass, MIT Press.

Nelson, Theordor Holm (1993) Literary Machines 93.1, Sausalito CA, Mindful Press

Nichols, Cynthia (2002) Responding in Kind: Down in the Body in the Undergraduate Poetry Course (Thoughts on Bakhtin, Hypertext, and Cheap Wigs), in Enculturation Volume 4, Number 1, Spring 2002 also available at http://enculturation.gmu.edu/4_1/toc.html (last viewed 17th November 2006).

Ong, Walter J. (1982) Orality and literacy: the Technologizing of the Word London, Methuen.

Pryor, Sally (2003) ‘Extending Integrationist Theory through the creation and analysis of a multimedia work of art: Postcard from Tunis’. Thesis submitted in the School of Communication, Design and Media U of Western Sydney 31st August 2003 – also available at http://www.sallypryor.com/SPryorThesis.pdf (last viewed 17th November 2006).

Reid, Elizabeth M (1994) Cultural Formations in Text-Based Virtual Realities A thesis submitted for the degree of Master of Arts http://www.aluluei.com/cult-form.htm (last viewed 17th November 2006)

Ryan, Marie-Laure ed. (1999) Cyberspace Textuality, Computer Technology and Literary Theory , Indiana, Indiana University Press.

Ryan, Marie-Laure (2001) Narrative as Virtual Reality: Immersion and Interactivity in Literature and Electronic Media, Baltimore and London, The John Hopkins University Press

Sloane, Sarah (2000) Digital Fictions: Storytelling in a Material World, Stanford, Conn, Ablex Publishing

Snyder, Ilana (1996)  Hypertext: The Electronic Labyrinth, Melbourne,  Melbourne University Press

Spender, Dale (1995) Nattering on the Net; Women, Power and Cyberspace, North Melbourne, Spinifex.

Stallabrass, Julian (2003) Internet Art: The Online Clash of Culture and Commerce, London, Tate Publishing.

Stefans, Brian Kim (2003) Fashionable Noise: On Digital Poetics, Berkeley, CA, Atelos.

Stoll, Clifford (1995) Silicon Snake Oil: Second Thoughts on the Information Highway, London and Basingstoke, Macmillan

Turkle, Sherry (1995) Life on the Screen: Identity in the Age of the Internet, New York, Simon and Schuster.

Van Looy, Jan & Baetens, Jan eds (2003) Close Reading Electronic Literature, Leuven, Belgium, Leuven University Press

Walker, Janice R. (1997) ‘Reinventing Rhetoric: The Classical Canon in the Computer Age’ available at http://www.cas.usf.edu/english/walker/papers/rhetoric.html (last viewed 17th November 2006).

Wardrip-Fruin, Noah & Montfort, Nick eds (2003)The New Media Reader, Cambridge and London, MIT Press.

Welch, Kathleen E. (1999) Electric Rhetoric: Classical Rhetoric, Oralism and a New Literacy, Cambridge, Mass, MIT Press.

Wittig, Rob (2001) ‘Observations from here; an e-lit writer links to the past’ in Poets and Writers Magazine Jan/Feb 2001 on-line available at http://www.pw.org/mag/wittig.htm (last viewed 17th November 2006)

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