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Available presentations can be accessed by clicking the links. Keynotes 2020 Feb – “Indie Publishing Beyond the Kindle Boom: Hogarth Renewed(?)”, Women in Publishing Symposium, Bangor, UK2020 Feb – “Yes, Karen, Practice IS Research”, Creative ...
Fictional Craigslist ads, alternative-reality Twitter feeds, seeded Reddit posts: what drives creators to craft these often intensely imagined-works and leave them in pockets of the Internet?
This paper presents two pilot studies (You and CO2; Infectious Storytelling) on utilizing reading and/or writing digital fiction to effect positive attitude change regarding, respectively, personal contributions to climate change and actions leading to antimicrobial resistance.
This presentation reflects on the findings of the interdisciplinary ‘TransForm’ project, which aimed to explore how reading and writing digital fictions (DFs) might support young women in developing frameworks for more positive thinking regarding body image.
I’ve been proselytizing this method for a while now, and have used it in a range of creative writing and publishing modules. It’s been wildly successful for me (though of course I’ll continue tweaking it), ...
This presentation summarizes the convergent evolution in different media, from e-lit to indie games to webcomics, and examines each for its successes and failures in terms of commercialization. It offers insight into the future of digital fiction based on these case studies, as well as the author’s own practice-based research into publishing and commercializing digital fiction as both a creator and a publisher
Me, lately I spent my PhD years going to many, many conferences. When you’re in a small department in an isolated part of the world, they’re kind of a necessity. You go to meet anyone – ...
Electronic Literature OrganizationPorto, Portugal20 July 2017 Abstract Literature arises from a “maker” culture: the basic skills required to consume and create literature are ubiquitous in modern literate cultures. From schools to book clubs to writers’ ...
MIX Digital ConferenceBath Spa University9-12 July 2017 Published as chapter in conference-related collection: Bom, Isabelle van der, R. Lyle Skains, Alice Bell, and Astrid Ensslin. 2021. “Reading Hyperlinks in Hypertext Fiction: An Empirical Approach.” In ...
First of all, hello again, old blog. I haven’t visited you, much less nourished you, in quite some time! What’s that meme that goes around about the best friends being those that can go months ...
