Archive of announcements for the 2018 Netnarr course
Alan Levine on This third issue of the Arganee Journal is a collection of E-Literature project ideas created as the final assignment for the Spring 2018 Networked Narrative class at Kean University.…
Alan Levine on Alan Levine on How can Electronic literature be used to express your ideas, worries, forecasts for what it means to experience the theme of this course– This Digital Life?
Last week we explored examples of the genres Electronic Literature. For …
Alan Levine on What is Electronic Literature? What is the difference, overlap with “regular” literature? What kinds / genres appeal to you as a form you might want to create?
Note: As a reminder, we do not meet in person this week; this work is mostly a reading and exploration assignment, a week …
Alan Levine on Computers can be platforms for software agents that “acts for a user or other program in a relationship of agency.” More specifically Chatter Bots are ones that “convincingly simulate how a human would behave as a conversational partner.”
Marrying responses of software agents with greater amounts of artificial intelligence (mining …
Alan Levine on Alan Levine on As this course has Narrative in its name, this week we turn to look at the elements of the games we have been discussing and sharing, in particular the role of a story in the creation of a game experience and the story behind games.
The Extra Credits …
Alan Levine on We’ve explored a bit about games we enjoy for our own amusement, distraction, fun. This week we ask if the same methodology can be used for quote / unquote serious purposes- to educate, to connect, to generate empathy. Do such narrative / serious games accomplish this? Why (or why not)?…
Alan Levine on Alan Levine on Alan Levine on In our last week of the Digital Art Segment, following up on Week 6, we continue looking at the art and style of the animated GIF, working to assemble our own miniature GIF movie made of multiple pieces of media.
Alan Levine on Alan Levine on Hatched as means to send video-like content over extremely limited bandwidth of the late 1908s internet, the Animated GIF (Graphics Interchange Format) has evolved from tiny pixelated cartoonish media to something evocative as art plus virally animated memes in social media.
Alan Levine on Like meme images we studied last week selfies are something we probably do not need to explain to you. They are a form of public media expression that has evolved into a thing of their own because of networked social media, and to many, a genre of digital art.
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