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Cultures of New Media at USC

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/// a class that meets both on campus & via virtual classroom software /// ANNENBERG COMM 340 – FALL 2013 CULTURES OF NEW MEDIA 9:30am – 10:50am ASC 231 & via ADOBE Connect: links provided for each class session INSTRUCTOR … Continue reading

Digital Humanities 2013: my talk

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Judy Malloy’s Seat at the (Database) Table a Feminist Reception History Before I read Jill Walker Rettberg’s excellent “Electronic Literature Seen From a Distance: The Beginnings of a Field,” I’d suspected that Judy Malloy’s elision from the electronic literature reception … Continue reading

MLA14 Panel Accepted! E-Literature Translations

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E-Literature Translations: Database, Platform, Language Panelists: Jonathan Baillehache Jill Walker Rettberg Kathi Inman Berens Davin Heckman The shared space of e-literature and translation is an emergent field. Iterating discussion from a groundbreaking conference at Universite Paris 8 in June 2012, … Continue reading

Trace of Race: E-Lit, Computation, DH

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Today I made a 17-minute audio lecture to guide DH 306 students through this week’s readings & assignment. This week we’re talking about e-lit and identity formation, and the role software plays in eliciting our interactivity with — our performance … Continue reading

Trillions of Tropes & Tweets in 2 Weeks

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I’m guest teaching a two-week unit about electronic literature in Jesse Stommel‘s new Digital Humanities program at Marylhurst University. Yesterday I made a 27-minute audio lecture to guide students through this week’s reading & assignment. Mainly it focuses on Hayles’ … Continue reading

The Catalog and The Ephemeral

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E-Literature At the Library of Congress “The Catalog and the Ephemeral” Kathi Inman Berens’ Curatorial Statement The twenty-seven works featured in the “Electronic Literature and Its Emergent Forms” exhibit, part of the Library of Congress’ first Electronic Literature Showcase, span … Continue reading

Exhibiting Electronic Literature Influences Scholarship

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In the first-ever exhibit of electronic literature at an MLA Convention, hundreds of members encountered over 160 pieces of e-lit and packed a standing-room-only reading offsite at Seattle’s Hugo House. The E-lit Exhibit ran Jan. 5-8, 2012. Continue reading

Cultures of New Media / Syllabus / spring ’13

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A platform’s operational logic shapes the context in which users apprehend, fail to apprehend — or are persuaded to discount — the value of personal information they broadcast. Continue reading

Curation is Convergence

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CURATORIAL STATEMENT Kathi Inman Berens: MLA 13 “Avenues of Access” “Practice mobility as a kind of dwelling,” concludes Jason Farman at the end of Mobile Interface Theory (2012). “Practice movement that is not indelibly linked to ideas of progress and … Continue reading

The New Learning Is Ancient

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The intimacy born of learning face-to-face is a misattribution. It’s not the face or the body that conveys intimacy, but shared, dynamic experiences of time. Virtual learning environments are awkward because the software can’t yet pivot between the dynamic flux … Continue reading