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