Earlier today, I sent out a big burst of tweets. Collectively, they offer an entirely decent summary of Literature in the Digital Age. And so here they are, preserved and rearranged in chronological order.
About to unleash a twitterstorm for my new book Literature in the Digital Age, out now from @Literature_CUP #LitDA pic.twitter.com/u3OwVMoZz9
— Adam Hammond (@ahmmnd) March 18, 2016
Part I takes a broad look at how literature is changing and changing us. #LitDA pic.twitter.com/bK3cqGwFHC
— Adam Hammond (@ahmmnd) March 18, 2016
Ch 1 follows the "Is Google Making Us Stupid?" debate bw @roughtype, @cshirky, and @svenbirkerts #LitDA pic.twitter.com/jwyNKGGaet
— Adam Hammond (@ahmmnd) March 18, 2016
Ch 1 draws heavily on the crystal-clear book history & media theory of Adriaan van der Weel #LitDA pic.twitter.com/dQZJ8Ul3Tr
— Adam Hammond (@ahmmnd) March 18, 2016
Ch 2 takes a historical look at literary innovation & media change via Ann Blair, @_akpiper, @jesspres, &c. #LitDA pic.twitter.com/Wn06Iux8yO
— Adam Hammond (@ahmmnd) March 18, 2016
Part II looks at what happens when you digitize literary texts that originally appeared in print or MS #LitDA pic.twitter.com/mxFLNufzdf
— Adam Hammond (@ahmmnd) March 18, 2016
Ch 3 considers the social & aesthetic implications of universal digital libraries. #LitDA pic.twitter.com/QgbK2DMjvk
— Adam Hammond (@ahmmnd) March 18, 2016
Ch 3 approaches copyright & open access through discussion of @gutenberg_org, @JSTOR, & @aaronsw #LitDA pic.twitter.com/Rpru0Ao7iS
— Adam Hammond (@ahmmnd) March 18, 2016
Ch 3 includes a long discussion of the @dpla, @RobertDarnton, and the legal battle with @google Books. #LitDA pic.twitter.com/j7F93XOE25
— Adam Hammond (@ahmmnd) March 18, 2016
Ch 4 asks if digital editions can "rescue" texts that weren't happy as printed books, via Bolter & @rgrusin #LitDA pic.twitter.com/FLZO6czSmr
— Adam Hammond (@ahmmnd) March 18, 2016
Ch 4 offers close readings of Blake's Marriage of Heaven and Hell and the @BlakeArchive pic.twitter.com/0kzP9yly0u
— Adam Hammond (@ahmmnd) March 18, 2016
Ch 4 looks at Emily Dickinson via @MarthaNellSmith and Virginia Jackson #LitDA pic.twitter.com/YlOz8n7PG8
— Adam Hammond (@ahmmnd) March 18, 2016
Ch 4 approaches T S Eliot and the @FaberBooks @Touchpress Waste Land iPad app via Lawrence Rainey #LitDA pic.twitter.com/UmVJ4Xl3yX
— Adam Hammond (@ahmmnd) March 18, 2016
Ch 4 closes w a look back at @scholarslab, McGann, & Drucker's IVANHOE & at @ETCLatUVic's Devonshire MS. #LitDA pic.twitter.com/mzkCkHMMK2
— Adam Hammond (@ahmmnd) March 18, 2016
Ch 5 aks what quantitative approaches can add to the study of literature. #LitDA pic.twitter.com/R4Xqdgosqu
— Adam Hammond (@ahmmnd) March 18, 2016
Ch 5 starts w a brief history of computing in the humanities, Busa onward, via Susan Hockey & @sramsay. #LitDA pic.twitter.com/E3JgoHEhSB
— Adam Hammond (@ahmmnd) March 18, 2016
Ch 5 looks at controversies in quantitative lit analysis via @julia_flanders, @magiciansbook & @StephenMarche #LitDA pic.twitter.com/7A8GEN4vxS
— Adam Hammond (@ahmmnd) March 18, 2016
Ch 5.1 introduces basic text analysis via @VoyantTools, Wordle, and type-token ratios. #LitDA pic.twitter.com/4xbwAjyr1C
— Adam Hammond (@ahmmnd) March 18, 2016
Ch 5.1 includes an old-school word frequency table of P&P via TaPOR. Thanks, @GeoffRockwell #LitDA pic.twitter.com/FJibOQFR6O
— Adam Hammond (@ahmmnd) March 18, 2016
Ch 5.2 introduces distant reading via Franco Moretti, @literarylab, and @mljockers. pic.twitter.com/vbZ3GUVsqc
— Adam Hammond (@ahmmnd) March 18, 2016
Ch 5.2 includes some Modernist Journals Project and Modernism: Keywords content @jdrouin #LitDA pic.twitter.com/w7UqBocgbg
— Adam Hammond (@ahmmnd) March 18, 2016
Ch 5.2 includes discussion of work by @literarylab's @quadrismegistus and Long Le-Khac #LitDA pic.twitter.com/Ntd9fezdXl
— Adam Hammond (@ahmmnd) March 18, 2016
Ch 5.3 focuses on the possibilities and perils of TEI encoding @TEIconsortium #LitDA pic.twitter.com/zAeg1ET8Sn
— Adam Hammond (@ahmmnd) March 18, 2016
Thanks to the @Literature_CUP designers for dealing with all the TEI and other code in my MS! #LitDA pic.twitter.com/3hNxLcc9su
— Adam Hammond (@ahmmnd) March 18, 2016
Part III is all about born-digital literature: lit composed & played/read on screens. #LitDA pic.twitter.com/pc0GEh9wnf
— Adam Hammond (@ahmmnd) March 18, 2016
Ch 6 focuses on digital distribution, asking how ease of access & remixing affects authorship & originality #LitDA pic.twitter.com/hgeolUJsnM
— Adam Hammond (@ahmmnd) March 18, 2016
Ch 6 compares print to digital publication, via @RobertDarnton's communications circuit & VW's Hogarth Press #LitDA pic.twitter.com/pnKi7gBgff
— Adam Hammond (@ahmmnd) March 18, 2016
Ch 6 looks at shifting notions of authorship in FanFic and #AltLit #LitDA pic.twitter.com/EWTqDBPpPg
— Adam Hammond (@ahmmnd) March 18, 2016
Among #AltLit discussed in ch 6: @muumuuhouse, @tao_lin, marie calloway, & @steveroggenbuck. #LitDA pic.twitter.com/KCMjP6f1Hb
— Adam Hammond (@ahmmnd) March 18, 2016
Ch 6 ends w long analysis of @DashShaw's insanely great BodyWorld. (Thanks to @goodmanbeaver for the tip) #LitDA pic.twitter.com/hO2eDZoJ7E
— Adam Hammond (@ahmmnd) March 18, 2016
Lots of photos of @DashShaw's BodyWorld in ch 6. #LitDA pic.twitter.com/Yau4BCarbk
— Adam Hammond (@ahmmnd) March 18, 2016
Ch 7 is about interactivity, hypertext, and interactive fiction (IF) #LitDA pic.twitter.com/wvs4GJNPJe
— Adam Hammond (@ahmmnd) March 18, 2016
Ch 7 looks at the heady days of 90s hypertext via @magiciansbook, @kfitz, Bolter, Landow, Aarseth, &c #LitDA pic.twitter.com/aCTXuT6kqd
— Adam Hammond (@ahmmnd) March 18, 2016
Ch 7 takes a long close look at @StephenMarche's Lucy Hardin, one of my fav. "hypertexts" @walrusmagazine #LitDA pic.twitter.com/wXQ7fEMmys
— Adam Hammond (@ahmmnd) March 18, 2016
Ch 7 approaches IF via @emshort's superb Galatea (via Shaw, Turing, Weizenbaum, @STurkle, K Hayles, &c) #LitDA pic.twitter.com/YCQTCV8id2
— Adam Hammond (@ahmmnd) March 18, 2016
Ch 8 is about multimodality & the fate of literature in the digital master medium. #LitDA pic.twitter.com/3XOpimH5tX
— Adam Hammond (@ahmmnd) March 18, 2016
Ch 8 starts w/ a digression on Nietzsche, Wagner, and opera-as-multimedia. And McLuhan, as always. #LitDA pic.twitter.com/RrKY76LMIm
— Adam Hammond (@ahmmnd) March 18, 2016
Ch 8 does a Wagnerian/Nietzschean reading of @InanimateAlice by @katepullinger and @cj391 #LitDA pic.twitter.com/kWRLsYmvhV
— Adam Hammond (@ahmmnd) March 18, 2016
Ch 8 looks at Young Hae Chang Heavy Industries via @jesspres #LitDA pic.twitter.com/MI5bg8NKBQ
— Adam Hammond (@ahmmnd) March 18, 2016
Ch 8 ends by asking whether videogames are literature via @jesperjuul, Aarseth, & @Austin_Grossman. #LitDA pic.twitter.com/WcHOi1OKp3
— Adam Hammond (@ahmmnd) March 18, 2016
Ch 8 focuses especially on indie games via @PHIL_FISH, @JaminWar, and @auntiepixelante. #LitDA pic.twitter.com/CPej7vq8LI
— Adam Hammond (@ahmmnd) March 18, 2016
Ch 8 has discussions of Fullbright Company's @GoneHomeGame and @HelloCakebread's @StanleyParable. #LitDA pic.twitter.com/aj7tqjjmTW
— Adam Hammond (@ahmmnd) March 18, 2016
Ch 8 ends w Sword & Sworcery by @superbrothersHQ, @jampants, & @CAPYGAMES (@krispiotrowski @Capy_Nathan) #LitDA pic.twitter.com/JNrPIsxJ68
— Adam Hammond (@ahmmnd) March 18, 2016
Coda looks at how print literature is adapting to the digital age. Starts w/ Jonathan #Franzen's Freedom. #LitDA pic.twitter.com/hFyorWWyrH
— Adam Hammond (@ahmmnd) March 18, 2016
Coda considers "Bookishness" via @jesspres, Katherine Hayles, @markdanielewski, Jonathan Safran Foer. #LitDA pic.twitter.com/b3Lp2bK6IH
— Adam Hammond (@ahmmnd) March 18, 2016
Coda ends with @Egangoonsquad's incredible Goon Squad & amazing Black Box, via Jennie Yabroff. @NewYorker #LitDA pic.twitter.com/Kk3J1kOo04
— Adam Hammond (@ahmmnd) March 18, 2016
#LitDA ends like a good Full House episode: w/ feelings, w/ misty eyes, w/ a pun. pic.twitter.com/3wsxJGI0IO
— Adam Hammond (@ahmmnd) March 18, 2016
Thus concludes the #LitDA twitterstorm. I promise not to do this again until I write another book.
— Adam Hammond (@ahmmnd) March 18, 2016
At least one faithful reader was not too terribly annoyed:
super exciting work, @ahmmnd!–reading over the book-as-tweets and now i can't wait to read the book-as-book! #LitDA https://t.co/VJuUowFi62
— Ryan Heuser (@quadrismegistus) March 19, 2016