Content tagged "writing"
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Podcast: Kelley Kreitz, “Yellow Journalism as Civic Media?: Rewiring an Experiment with Nineteenth-Century News”
Revisiting the activist impulse behind yellow journalism provides a window on a changing media ecology in which the future of news was under debate.
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Podcast, “Electronic Literature and Future Books” with Katherine Hayles and Rita Raley
Katherine Hayles and Rita Raley on how mainstream and avant-garde poets and writers have been exploring the literary potential of the computer for decades.
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Podcast: John Bryant, “Revision, Culture, and the Machine: How Digital Makes Us Human”
John Bryant on revision studies, adaptation, translation, creativity, appropriation, and cultural difference in the ethics and editing of revision.
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Podcast: McKenzie Wark, “From Gamer Theory to Critical Practice”
McKenzie Wark on developing critical media approaches to confront the computer game as an historically specific form, the form perhaps of our times.
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A Conversation with Junot Díaz
Questions of genre and secondary world construction in The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao and the Caribbean, and the failure of realism as a narrative strategy.
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Science Fiction Author Joe Haldeman Says Write Every Day
Haldeman and Henry Jenkins discussed the ways in which scientific knowledge plays into science fiction as well as the interaction between science and religion in terms of the sci-fi genre.
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The Book as Looking Glass: Improving Works for and about Children in Early Modern England
Exploring three developments pertaining to children and reading in seventeenth-century England, including how profoundly death was implicated in the development of thought about children’s reading.
