Guest Questions

Danny – What is your current goal in the program? How close are you to your goal?   Jason- What is your next project? How does it affect the Park?   Walkie – What is SLATE? Would or could a non alaskan native learn the native toung?   Sarah- On average how many people in…

Defining Digital Storytelling?

From what I have experienced from this genre DIGITAL STORYTELLING is a multimedia way of telling a personal story with music, photos,video, voice, and text. I would describe these as mini short films with a true personal story. I feel it has a lot of flexibility in terms of how to present a story and…

A few thoughts on digital storytelling

Digital storytelling is a form of conveying a story. As the word digital suggests, the story is told using electronic media. Usually the story is told through a video with a voiceover doing the actual telling. While using a video is not the only way to tell a story digitally, it is the most popular…

Alicia’s Capstone

Revision of Wiki page: Continuing after, “On its official website, the ELO offers this additional definition of electronic literature as consisting of works which are: … Literary performances online that develop new ways of writing.’ While the ELO definition incorporates many aspects that are applied in digital literature, the definition lacks any solid guidelines. With…

Wiki Page

What qualifies as electronic literature?   From e-books to computer games, literature has a very broad definition, and  best defined in Katherine Hayles’ “Electronic Literature: What is it?’ There has been a learning curve and e-literature is being re-evaluated. In early days it was “A block of text on a computer’. This eventually progressed into…

Wiki Needs us

Part 1:   Reader’s Experience   As Digital Literature became more popular. Readers began sharing their experience to this new format called Digital Literature or “E-literature’. The most coming common example of e-literature are blogs, online articles, and even e-books. For example as stated by LA Weekly on a review on PRY an interactive app.…

Wikipedia : Electronic Literature

Capstone 1 Reader-Writer-Text Relationship   In traditional literature, the reader-writer-text relationship is comparable to a two way street. The reader can only absorb the words that the writer chooses to use, and the author only has words to describe himself. However in e-literature, the writer can incorporate numerous different ways that are in digital form…

All Work and No Play…

Sitting down to think about how I could go about commenting on this long paper, I thought to myself “Why should I comment on the entire paper when I can look at specific parts of it and draw questions, concerns, and/or comments from those parts?” “…[play’s] reception in literary theory as well as in culture…

Are we working or gaming.

When you take the chance to read  Games Without Play by David Golumbia, At the first glance you see this 27 page “Article” and wonder why is it so long? What could it possibly be about? As you further read into this article, you start to get a bit of a ranting feeling as he…

Games Without Play Response

Golumbia writes alot about games without play, and I believe he makes some valid points. I also believe he rants on about whether or not games are “play”. I will elaborate on this in my discussion, and I disagree on most of what he has said. I believe Golumbia over-analyzes the word “play” and its…