Below you will find links to resources and online applications that we will use throughout the course as well as the various texts we will be reading, viewing, listening to, and playing as we explore various forms of new media. Note that more resource links and texts may be added as the course progresses.
Resources, Apps & Cool Tools we’ll Play with . . .
- MLA Formatting and Style Guide (owl.purdue.edu)
- Miro (discussions, infinite whiteboard, and concept map builder)
- Flipgrid (for audio/video discussions)
- Padlet (discussion board)
- Language is a Virus (text manipulators & generators)
- Twine (interactive storytelling)
- Telescopic Text (stretchtext creator)
- Book Creator (making digital books online)
- Bitsy Game Maker (a little editor for little games or worlds)
- itch.io (independent digital creator platform)
- Knight Lab (3D & VR Storytelling)
- W3 Schools (code reference, tutorial, and playtesting)
- and more to come
Module 1: Identity & Nostalgia
- “Where I’m From” () George Ella Lyon’s (she/her) poem
- “Arrhythmia” (2018) Natalie Lim’s (she/her) poem
- “Like Watching a Sunshower” (2021) Anneke Nussbaum’s (she/her) e-poem
- Elmo: Shattered Illusions (2012, Nov 26) Stuart Carlson’s (he/him) editorial cartoon
- The Stranger in the Photo is Me (1991) Donald Murray’s (he/him) article
- Kiwew: Episode 1: Effie (2021) David A Robertson’s (he/him) podcast
- Dear Younger Self () Ivan Coyote’s (they/them) video letter
Module 2: Introduction to Electronic Literature
- “Ode to a User Friendly Pencil” (1989) Bonnie Liang’s (she/her) essay
- “Laptop Love” (2010) Ian Keteku’s (he/him) spoken word
- “How Instagram Saved Poetry” (2018) Faith Hill’s (she/her) and Karen Yuan’s (she/her) article
- “Memes and Poetry” (2017) Lilli Van Belle’s (she/her) Ted Talk
- Instapoetry (2021) @rupikakur ( she/her)
- Blackout Instapoetry (2019) @astridoxford (she/her)
- Twitter Bot Poetry (2022)@BotPoetsSociety twitter bot
- “Troll” (2014) Shane Koyczan’s (he/him) spoken word animation
- “I ♥ E-Poetry” (n.d.) Nick Montfort’s (he/him) generative poem
- Faith (2006) Rob Kendall’s (he/him) kinetic poem
- Taroko Gorge (2009) Nick Montford’s (he/him) generative poem
- P.o.E.M.M Project (2014) Jason Edward Lewis’s (he/him) & Bruno Nadeau’s (he/him) kinetic poetry
- AR Experiments: Expanding creative possibilities with ARCore (n.d.) Google ARCore Video
- Filter Insta-zine (2021 October) Sarah Whitcomb Laiola’s (curator) ELO NEXT Instagram Zine
- Shuf Poetry Issue 9 (2021 Fall) experimental poetry eJournal
Module 3: Narrative Games & Games Culture
- Interactive Fiction:
- Depression Quest (2013) Zoe Quinn (she/her)
- Neon Haze (2015) Porpentine (they/them)
- Swallow (2018) Emily Flynn-Jones (she/her), Killjoy Games
- 10 Lost Boys(2020) Mark Sample (he/him)
- Quing’s Quest VII: The Death of Videogames (2014) Dietrich Squinkifer (they/he)
- Shell Song (2020) Everest Pipkin (they/them)
- Narrative Games:
- Journey (2012) Austin Wintory, Thatgamecompany
- Gone Home (2013) The Fullbright Company
- Night in the Woods (2017) Infinite Fall, Finji
- What Remains of Edith Finch (2017) Giant Sparrow
Module 4: Identity & Peoplehood
- Etuaptmumk: Two-Eyed Seeing (2016) Rebecca Thomas’ (she/her) TEDx Talk
- I Lost my Talk (2007) Rita Joe’s (she/her) poem
- Joe From Winnipeg, episode “Yams” (2004) Ian Ross’s (he/him) radio persona
- i am graffiti (2016) Leanne Betasamosake Simpson’s (she/her) poem
- The Inconvenient Indian, introduction “Forget Columbus” (2012) Thomas King’s (he/him) satire
- 7 Generations: A Plains Cree Saga (2012) David A Robertson’s (he/him) graphic novel series
- TerraNova (2019) Maize Longboat, Mehrdad Dehdashti, Ray Caplin & Beatrix Moersch’s collaborative game
- Never Alone Kisma Ingitchuna (2016) E-Line Media’s collaborative game
- The Next Chapter in Indigenous Representation in Video Games (2020) Molly C. Beer’s (she/her) article
Module 5: Identity & Power
- The Problem we all Live With (1964) Norman Rockwell’s (he/him) painting
- The Danger of a Single Story (2009) Chimamanda Adichie’s (she/her) Ted Talk
- ‘Ye or Nay? (n.d.) A. M. Darke (he/her/they)
- Downtown Browns (2016) Beglari, Comrie, Garcia, Yang, and Chamorro’s interactive web series
- The Hamilton Mixtape: Immigrants (We Get the Job Done) (2016) Residente, Snow Tha Product, K’naan, Riz Ahmed’s music video
- Queer Female of Color: The Highest Difficulty Setting There Is? (2012) Lisa Nakamura’s article
- Not Your Exotic Fantasy (n.d.) Feminist Frequency’s video