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One form of electronic literature is digital poetry or "e-poetry."  E-poetry is only achievable through digital technologies, but these technologies are rapidly advancing.  Technologies used to create e-poetry include word processors, algorithms, hypertext, kinetics and multimedia.  These poems are born digital, meaning they were digital at the time they were created.  In some cases, the e-poetry uses aspects of poetry which is not initially digital.  Authors and programmers can include their work or their writing style as what makes up the digital poem's content.  Many examples of e-poetry can be found at the website " I  Love E-Poetry ."   A interesting poem we reviewed in class is "The Inexhaustible Gatsby." Molly Verostick created " The Inexhaustible Gatsby " which is based on work from F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby."  Verostick incorporates the text from "The Great Gatsby" into a continuous text genera

Electronic Literature is a novel, short story, poem or random words or phrases digitalized to interact with the reader using an electronic device as the medium. Readers will interact with whatever the author is trying to portray to the audience. There are often hyperlink interactions, mouse clicks, audio, and keyboard interactions alongside visual effects that give the message to the audience. TailSpin  by Christine Wilks is a very great showcase of how electronic literature is used to give better insight to the general idea of the story. Taking place right after World War 2, this story is of a former aircraft fitters struggles with tinnitus and how civilian life is treating him miserably after the war. He has a form of PTSD and the author portrays this with a lot of  informational spirals telling us this mans life is going into a tailspin. He cannot live everyday life comfortably because of his inability to hear therefore giving him the inability to understand certain things tha

Electronic Literature Electronic Literature (EL) is a rising form of literature which is born digital, or created on digital technology.  This form of literature is also meant to be consumed through digital technologies such as computers and smart phones. What sets it apart from normal literature is its incorporation of hypertext, animation(s) and/or interactive links/videos that create an electronic story.  Since EL contains digitally interactive aspects, it must be able to be accessed digitally.  EL cannot be converted to print, but print literature can be converted to EL. Although, Electronic Literature is not a tangible artifact, it can really engage the person experiencing it through interactivity.  In Dinty Moore's  "Mr. Plimpton's Revenge" , the reader must engage with the story by clicking through the pinpoints and viewing the pictures taken at corresponding places on the map.  This interaction brings a certain realness to the story which makes it easie

My group members and I defined Electronic literature based on what we have learned in class so far. To us, it is literature created via a digital platform, such as a computer, phone, or tablet, which is meant to be interacted and/or read on a digital platform just like it the ones it was created on. One such piece of Electronic Literature which is read and interacted with is called, " Public Secrets ," by Sharon Daniel and Erik Loyer. I think this piece of Electronic Literature is a very powerful one of writing; this stems from its interactivity. As you click the Begin button, you become immersed in two different worlds, the inside and outside of Central California Women's Facility. As you click through the website, quotes on incarcerated women appear, which you can click on. Upon clicking the quotes, testimonies will play of either people visiting the facility or the women inside, it all depends on what "side" you select. I said this is a powerful piece of El