About to start assembling my interactive map of the busy London of James Malcolm Rymer's The String of Pearls, or the Barber of Fleet Street (1850), the original Sweeney Todd story, using OMEKA with NeatLine, historical maps, and imaginary landmarks. Here's my lo-fi mockup, begun at ThatCamp RTP in Eliot and John's Lo-Fi design unworkshop.
Once again, Kathi and I have produced an Impact Report that looks that the way our exhibit has impacted scholarship and influenced thinking about electronic literature following the exhibit we curated at the Modern Language Association. This is the second exhibit of electronic literature we have curated at the MLA; the first took place in Seattle, WA and featured over 160 works.
Here is the executive summary:
Once again, Kathi and I have produced an Impact Report that looks that the way our exhibit has impacted scholarship and influenced thinking about electronic literature following the exhibit we curated at the Modern Language Association. This is the second exhibit of electronic literature we have curated at the MLA; the first took place in Seattle, WA and featured over 160 works.
Here is the executive summary:
Special Issue of Computers in Human Behavior: "Newcomer Participation in Online Communities"
Special Issue Editors
Aditya Johri, Virginia Tech
Vandana Singh, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Rosta Farzan, University of Pittsburgh
Oded Nov, NYU Polytechnic
This winter break I had a bit of time to get back into Sid Meier's Civilization V. This is a strategy game for PC in which you start your own civilization and your objective is to dominate: either in science, culture, militarily, or you just end up with the most points (collected throughout the game). In Civ, you can choose to be one of many historical rulers yet you can choose the topography, time period, etc. Thus the game is in the realm of counterfactuals, yet there is some history mixed in with it.
Electronic Literature, Year Two @ the MLA: A [Brief] Curatorial Statement
by Dene Grigar, Associate Professor and Director, The Creative Media & Digital Culture Program at Washington State University Vancouver