Playable Communications
Electronic Literature OrganizationUniversity of Bergen, NorwayAugust 2015 Later published as a journal article: Skains, R. Lyle. 2018. “Creative Practice as Research: Discourse on Methodology.” Media Practice and Education 19 (1): 82–97. https://doi.org/10.1080/14682753.2017.1362175. Abstract This paper ...
Computer Gaming Across CulturesNew Delhi, IndiaJanuary 2014 Cite as: Skains, R. Lyle. 2014. “Coding Creativity: Creative Writing in Code Environments.” In Computer Gaming Across Cultures, New Delhi, India. New Delhi, India.
Electronic Literature OrganizationParis, FranceSeptember 2013 Later published as a journal article: Skains, R. Lyle. 2019. “The Materiality of the Intangible: Literary Metaphor in Multimodal Texts.” Convergence 25 (1): 133–47. https://doi.org/10.1177/1354856517703965. Abstract In presenting her theory ...
MIX DigitalBath Spa UniversityJuly 2013 Later published as journal article: Skains, R. Lyle. 2016. “The Fragmented Digital Gaze: The Effects of Multimodal Composition on Narrative Perspective.” Qualitative Inquiry, Special Issue: Hypermodal Inquiry 22 (3): 183–90. ...
Gaming Across CulturesBangor, WalesMay 2013 Cite as: Skains, R. Lyle. 2013. “Reading, Writing, Arithmetic…and Programming? Game-Coding as Educational Platform.” In Computer Gaming Across Cultures, Bangor, Wales. Bangor, Wales, UK.
Material Meanings ConferenceUniversity of KentSeptember 2012 Abstract Technotexts, according to N.K. Hayles (2002: 24, cf. Aarseth 1997), are self-reflexive, ergodic artifacts that thematise their own operational and phenomenological materiality. In electronic media, literary-ludic technotexts such ...
Electronic Literature Organization ConferenceMorgantown, West Virginia, USAJune 2012 Later published as a journal article: Skains, R. Lyle. 2016. “Creative Commons and Appropriation: Implicit Collaboration in Digital Works.” Publications 4 (1). http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/publications4010007. Abstract Digital technology enables ...
I’ve been thinking quite a lot lately about the use of “found” art, as in re-appropriating images, video, code, etc., in stories. Obviously, in my case, that means digital fiction, though I don’t really think ...
Great Writing ConferenceImperial College LondonJune 2011 Later published as a journal article: Skains, R. Lyle. 2017. “The Adaptive Process of Multimodal Composition: How Developing Tacit Knowledge of Digital Tools Affects Creative Writing.” Computers and Composition ...
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 ...
