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?
Practice-Based Research
Twine Games for Health & Science Education
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.
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 – ...
The Practice of Research: A Methodology for Practice-Based Exploration of Digital Writing
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 ...
Coding Creativity: Creative Writing in Code Environments
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.
The Materiality of the Intangible: Literary Metaphor in Multimodal Texts
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 ...
The Fragmented Digital Gaze: Effects of Multimodal Composition on Narrative Perspective
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. ...
Fluid Texts and Implicit Collaboration in Electronic Narratives
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 ...
The Medium in the Story: How the Intent to Work in Digital Media Affects the Writer’s Practice
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 ...
Stories as Real Estate: A New Paradigm for Writing and Publishing
This paper examines several case studies including Robin Sloan’s Annabel Scheme and Shelldrake projects. These examples serve as models for a new paradigm in storytelling: the story as an interactive and ongoing world, rather than a fixed text owned by a copyright-holder.