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Neverending Stories - The Popular Emergence of Digital Fiction (Hardcover) Loot Price: R3,118
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Neverending Stories - The Popular Emergence of Digital Fiction (Hardcover): R. Lyle Skains

Neverending Stories - The Popular Emergence of Digital Fiction (Hardcover)

R. Lyle Skains

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Digital fiction has long been perceived as an experimental niche of electronic literature. Yet born-digital narratives thrive in mainstream culture, as communities of practice create and share digital fiction, filling in the gaps between the media they are given and the stories they seek. Neverending Stories explores the influences of literature and computing on digital fiction and how the practices and cultures of each have impacted who makes and plays digital fiction. Popular creativity emerges from subordinated groups often excluded from producing cultural resources, accepting the materials of capitalism and inverting them for their own carnivalesque uses. Popular digital fiction goes by many different names: webnovels, adventure games, visual novels, Twitter fiction, webcomics, Twine games, walking sims, alternate reality games, virtual reality films, interactive movies, enhanced books, transmedia universes, and many more. The book establishes digital fiction in a foundation of innovation, tracing its emergence in various guises around the world. It examines Infocom, whose commercial success with interactive fiction crumbled, in no small part, because of its failure to consider women as creators or consumers. It takes note of the brief flourish of commercial book apps and literary games. It connects practices of cognitive and conceptual interactivity, and textual multiplicity-dating to the origins of the print novel-to the feminine. It pushes into the technological future of narrative in immersive and mixed realities. It posits the transmedia franchises and the practices of fanfiction as examples of digital fiction that will continue indefinitely, regardless of academic notice or approval.

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Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic USA
Country of origin: United States
Release date: 2023
Authors: R. Lyle Skains
Dimensions: 229 x 152mm (L x W)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 978-1-5013-6494-5
Categories: Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary theory
Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Communication studies > Media studies
Books > Computing & IT > Computer software packages > Multimedia
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LSN: 1-5013-6494-4
Barcode: 9781501364945

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