new media writing

hugovk commented on the word new media writing

new media writing, n.

I’ve been working for the past several years to find a way
to discuss what has come to be known as “electronic literature” — it’s a creaky phrase that doesn’t survive parsing, hence the wavering
between this term, “new media writing,” “digital literature,”
etc. — in a way that is neither naively celebratory, presuming that
computers will change writing the way DNA testing has changed crime television, nor overly technical, branching off into deep theoretical territory that seems, long before hindsight, to have nothing to do with literature or digital technology, not to mention graphic design, information architecture, film/photography, and video games, all of which at times seem to be relevant discourses.

October 17, 2015