Gaming the Composition: An ethnographic study on composing ergodic fiction

Rebecca Skains, Alice Bell, Astrid Ensslin

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    Abstract

    Digital media offers specific affordances to the fiction author, including multimodality, non- and poly-linear structures, and interactivity. Current studies focus on reader response and literacy; little is understood about how authors compose and conceive digital fiction. This ethnographic study of undergraduate writers composing digital and prose fiction expands the first author’s practice-based research on digital composition, which found that digital composition has significant effects on writer cognition, approach to story, and narrative elements.
    Original languageEnglish
    Publication statusPublished - 8 Jul 2016
    EventInternational Society for the Empirical Study of Literature Conference - Chicago, United States
    Duration: 6 Jul 2016 → 8 Jul 2016

    Conference

    ConferenceInternational Society for the Empirical Study of Literature Conference
    Abbreviated titleIGEL 2016
    Country/TerritoryUnited States
    CityChicago
    Period6/07/16 → 8/07/16

    Keywords

    • digital writing
    • composition

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