SEMESTER 2 (2012)
ENGL 352: Digital Literature: Technologies of Storytelling
Course description:
In an increasingly digitised, networked, and visual culture, it has become clear that narrative is only one among many forms that is used to organise information and represent our world. The movement from print to digital media, however, has by no means left this cultural form behind. This course will introduce and analyse a range of narrative fiction that has emerged with the ascendancy of digital media, including hypertexts and Web-based fiction; textual adventure games/Interactive Fictions (IFs); and text-based multi-user discourses (MUDs). It will also address the role of narrative in structuring and shaping artefacts of contemporary popular culture that are exclusive to screen media, such as Web-logs (or “blogs”) and video games.
NOTE: Only basic computer literacy and web navigation skills are recommended for this paper, but no technical skills are needed. The “computer lab” is like a tutorial that will involve computers as well as discussion.
