Computing Literature Vol. 6: Electronic Literature Communities

Electronic Literature Communities is a volume that "collects some excellent essays from two special issues of the online journal Dichtung Digital (41 and 42) that emerged from the Developing a Network-Based Creative Community: Electronic Literature as a Model of Creativity and Innovation in Practice (ELMCIP) joint research project. ELMCIP was a project of the Humanities in the European Research Area (HERA) framework program, under the theme of Creativity and Innovation. . . . The diverse collection of essays you encounter in this volume initially emerged from a seminar on Electronic Literature Communities produced at the University of Bergen in September 2010. Beyond the specific examples presented at that seminar, however at the beginning of 2011, we issued an open call for papers that engaged the broad theme of community-based research in digital artistic practices, with a special focus on electronic literature. This volume presents a number of different types of perspectives on the role and function of community in the practice of contemporary electronic literature, ranging from studies of communities that form around a particular theme, genre or authoring software, to insights into the collaborative dynamics of creating a work with practitioners coming from various disciplines and different nations, to comparisons between emergent and planned, or institutionally-driven communities." -- Scott Rettberg and Patricia Tomaszek, "Introduction"

CONTENTS

• "Networks of Creativity: Electronic Literature Communities" by Scott Rettberg and Patricia Tomaszek
• "Electronic Literature Seen from a Distance: The Beginnings of a Field" by Jill Walker Rettberg
• "Distributive Authorship and Creative Communities" by Simon Biggs and Penny Travlou
• "Amateurs Online: Creativity in a Community" by Yra van Dijk
• "Communities/Commons: A Snap Line of Digital Practice" by Loss Pequeño Glazier
• "Developing an Identity for the Field of Electronic Literature: Reflections on the Electronic Literature Organization Archives" by Scott Rettberg
• "Interactive Fiction Communities: From Preservation Through Promotion and Beyond" by Nick Montfort and Emily Short
• "The Flash Community: Implications for Post-Conceptualism" by Donna Leishman
• "Flâneur, a Walkthrough: Locative Literature as Participation and Play" by Anders Sundnes Løvlie
• "Netprov: Elements of an Emerging Form" by Mark C. Marino and Rob Wittig