As announced at #elo25, work toward the Electronic Literature Collection 5 (to be published in 2027) has begun and a call for submissions will soon be released. We are asking for help translating and spreading the upcoming call. Past ELCs: collection.eliterature.org

If you missed my #elo25 talk earlier today, More History for the "Little Engine": Preserving the History and Works of Bitsy, here are my slides. Summary: Bitsy will be 10 next year; I've been working on documenting its journey. Slides: docs.google.com/presentation...

While at #ELO25 I’m launching a new online project. Here is “No Time to Discourse”—a speculative atlas of future climate disaster. Millions of (non-AI) procedurally generated flash fiction disaster stories. And they all hit a little too close to home these days. notime.now

@msterslev.bsky.social showing the BERTIFIER transformation of Tristan Tzara’s “How to write a Dada poem” #elo25:

If you see @samplereality.bsky.social at #elo25, ask him for a bookmark for his latest project “No Time For Discourse” notime.now

Jose Dias’s exploration of the expressiveness of the hyperlink in Twine is accompanied by real-time illustration! #elo25

@videlais.bsky.social is giving a fascinating talk about the j history of Bitsy and the works created using it. Dan has great videos about how to use Bitsy on YouTube! #elo25

@scottrettberg.bsky.social is giving us an entertaining account of his early experiences with eLit, including coauthorship of the hypertext The Unknown #elo25

I’m at ELO@25 Love Letters to the Past and Future conference at York University, with @caitlinfisher.bsky.social & @laitze.bsky.social opening the event! #elo25

Happy to see ‘Digital Editing and Publishing in the Twenty-First Century’ published by @scotunipress.bsky.social, is out!! Open access: available in print, PDF, EPUB. I have an essay in it: “The Ludic Edition: Playful Futures for Digital Scholarly Editing”! books.sup.ac.uk/sup/catalog/...

I’ll be virtually presenting my paper “Adjusting the Virtual Dial: Video Game Adoptions and Adaptations of the Radio” today at session 14: Meaning through Mechanics (2pm EST) at the International Conference on Games and Narrative 2025 @uwaterloo.ca #icgan2025

I’m attending (virtually) Emma Vossen’s keynote at the International Conference on Games & Narrative (ICGAN), “Narratology vs Ludology: The Debate that has Haunted Game Studies for Two Decades and Counting”. Emma is co-editor of the forthcoming Historiographies of Game Studies (Punctum Books)!

Looking forward to chatting tomorrow with @paulbarrett1.bsky.social and Sarah Roger about their collection Future Horizons: Canadian Digital Humanities at @torontomet.bsky.social’s Centre for Digital Humanities! Details here: cdh.rula.info/newsletter/

I’m attending the Toronto launch of Output: Computer-Generated Text, 1963-2023 edited by Nick Montfort & Lillian-Yvonne Bertram, published by @mitpress.bsky.social

Tomorrow (January 14), the Centre for Digital Humanities will resume its programming with Reading Bytes, where we’ll continue our discussion of Alan Blackwell’s Moral Codes: Designing Alternatives to AI. Check out & join us for the other great events happening this month! cdh.rula.info/newsletter/

Asst Prof in Digital Humanities & Literature, Rowan U: jobs.rowan.edu/en-us/job/50...

It’s #DayofDH 2024, sponsored by dhcenternet.org! The Centre for Digital Humanities at Toronto Metropolitan U is hosting “Diary of a Digital Humanist,” led by Reg Beatty! More details here: cdh.rula.info/newsletter/

This!! Re:UVA DH+environmental hum prof/DHC Faculty Director ad. *Please, please* do apply if you do DH but aren't familiar w/environmental humanities as a term/field. Think expansive view of social justice that has/could add any tie into place or place-based human experience, planet and/or climate+

I made a starter pack for digital humanities people, projects, and centres based in Canada go.bsky.app/ScSDoUB reply to be added!

_Debates in the Digital Humanities 2023_ is now live and open-access on the Manifold DDH platform!! dhdebates.gc.cuny.edu/projects/deb... @laurenfklein.bsky.social & I offer deepest thanks to our contributors for their work and to @uminnpress.bsky.social for its support of open-access publishing!

A new episode of the Playable Stories: Unarchived podcast has been released! In it, we talk about @kleientertainment.bsky.social’s Don’t Starve and the survival game genre. With @jerrrber.bsky.social, Kevin Ghouchandra & Chelsea Russell! storiesinplay.com/2024/11/24/u...

A new entry has been published on the Playable Stories Archive! Florence (by Mountains), entry written by Kevin Ghouchandra storiesinplay.com/2024/11/24/f...

🌈Thrilling news! QGCon 2025 will take place on September 26-28 in Montreal! If you are a gamemaker, researcher, or activist at the intersection of queerness and games, we want you there!✨ 🦄We value accessibility! QGCon 2025 is a COVID-cautious event. www.qgcon.org/blog/announc...

Trying to find time this morning to start drafting the script on the November episode of the Playable Stories: Unarchived podcast on @kleientertainment.bsky.social’s Don’t Starve series storiesinplay.com/unarchived-p...

Had a great panel this morning with Playable Stories: Unarchived podcast team members discussing "Best Practices for Choosing Games (or Topics) for Episodes" for the 2024 Humanities Podcasting Network Symposium: humanitiespodnetwork.org