Playable Communications
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. ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
I went up to the Edinburgh Festival last week, mostly to hear Neil Gaiman read (yes, again). It also meant that I bought far too many books, more than I’d given myself leave to purchase. ...
I’m sure I’ve written this post before, and I probably will write it again, but I’m such a dope I seem to always be forgetting about this issue. It helps me to reiterate it, and ...
One week. Seven glorious days. The equivalent, for me, of a snow-in. I got s**t done, people. My husband signed up to attend a conference in Erice, Sicily for a week in the end of ...
It was inevitable: give me three weeks on my own, with no work responsibilities, and I will read. Straight through. I haven’t been able to actually read a book since the winter break; between teaching ...
