Media Upheavals

How have digital media changed our notions of textuality, narrative and medium and the ways we write, read and teach? This volume assembles answers from different fields.

This volume takes a look at the literary aspects of locative media and immersive environments, where readers have to muster active engagement and physical interaction to grasp a text.

A handbook for academic teaching: how to use digital literature?

Ever since Obama's 2008 presidential campaign, we know that elections are (also) won on the internet. Here comes the long overdue first research volume on the influence that the internet has on election campaigns and thus on democracy and the political public.

This volume closes a research gap by providing an overview of the digital toolbox of media studies.

The mass media not only discuss integration, they facilitate and initiate it as well! This volume combines European and American perspectives on this idea.

During recent years, literary texts in electronic and networked media have been a focal point of literary scholarship, using varying terminology. In this book, the contributions of internationally renowned scholars and authors from Germany, USA, France, Finland, Spain and Switzerland review the ruptures and upheavals of literary communication within this context. The articles in the book focus on questions such as: In which literary projects can we discover a new quality of literariness? What are the terminological and methodological means to examine these literatures? How can we productively link the logics of the play of literary texts and their reception in the reading process? What is the relationship of literary writing and programming?
With contributions by Jean-Pierre Balpe, Susanne Berkenheger, Friedrich W. Block, Philippe Bootz, Laura Borràs Castanyer, Markku Eskelinen, Frank Furtwängler, Peter Gendolla, Loss Pequeño Glazier, Fotis Jannidis, Thomas Kamphusmann, Mela Kocher, Marie-Laure Ryan, Jörgen Schäfer, Roberto Simanowski and Noah Wardrip-Fruin.