Publication of the Otherwise Unpublishable
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?
Digital Storytelling
In which the Apathy Monster is curtailed
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 – ...
Thoughts on @dreamingmethods Digital Writing Workshop
I’m on the long train(s) ride home from Kent after a one-day digital fiction workshop with Andy Campbell (Dreaming Methods). It’s the first time I’ve met Andy IRL – great to put a face to ...
Ruminations, Musings, and Other Cud-Chewing
First, a note: This blog is moving away from the specifics of my PhD research and experiences. If anyone was interested in those, well…sorry. The work is progressing, and it’s a delicate balance! Best to ...
Not so much teaching digital writing as teaching digital literature…
I spent yesterday at the Teaching Digital Writing day at the Phoenix Digital Square in Leicester (yes, again – I seem to spend more time in Leicester than anywhere else, which is probably because Sue ...
Gotta get a move on
My supervisor brought to my attention today that she actually does read this thing (if anyone wonders, my supervisor is rad and awesome and the best ever. Ahem.), and that it’s very interesting for her ...
Posters that don’t involve women draped on cars
Fresh off mid-semester vacation, our New Media Research Circle had a mini-poster session today. I threw together mine based on the method I’m using to take my stories from print to digital, pompously titled “From ...
Crowdsourcing hits Sundance
A friend posted this short, collaborative film on Facebook the other day. It was cute, and included an actor I like, so I was amused. At first. After exploring the hitRECord site a bit, however, ...
#1 tool for digital creativity: a #2 pencil
I’ve finally done it. I have entered nerdhood, via the rather embarrassing route of sustaining a significant injury from too much time spent in front of a computer screen. My osteopath was beside herself. It ...
Underground and in the net
I spent 3 days in London this weekend, and almost all of it can be classed research. Amazing. Friday was spent entirely on the Underground – no joke, I saw sky only when the trains ...