TY - CONF

T1 - Gaming the Composition

T2 - International Society for the Empirical Study of Literature Conference

AU - Skains, Rebecca

AU - Bell, Alice

AU - Ensslin, Astrid

PY - 2016/7/8

Y1 - 2016/7/8

N2 - 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.

AB - 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.

KW - digital writing

KW - composition

M3 - Poster

Y2 - 6 July 2016 through 8 July 2016

ER -