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Electronic Literature: The challenges of born-digital fiction
Prof Dene Grigar, Dr Mariusz Pisarski

This event took place on 1st April 2025 at 11:30am (10:30 GMT)
Knowledge Media Institute, Berrill Building, The Open University, Milton Keynes, United Kingdom, MK7 6AA

How can early interactive novels, hypertext fictions and narratives be maintained and kept accessible? These forms of born-digital literature were produced before or shortly after the mainstreaming of the World Wide Web with proprietary software and on formats now obsolete. Preserving and extending them for a broad study by scholars of book culture, literary studies, and digital culture necessitate they are migrated, translated, and emulated. This seminar will address three key challenges facing such efforts: (1) precision of references; (2) enhanced media translation; and (3) media integrity.


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