Transcriptions/Literature.Culture.Media

“Interactive Narrative: What It Can Do & What It Can’t”
Facilitated by Porter Abbott (UCSB) with special guest Marie-Laure Ryan (University of Colorado)
Thursday, February 26 / 3:30 PM
English Department Seminar Room, South Hall 2635
A discussion keyed to two texts by Dr. Ryan, “Peeling the Onion: Layers of Interactivity in Digital Narrative Texts” and “Interactive Narrative, Plot Types, and Interpersonal relations” (latter available shortly on ERES).

TALK: “What Has the Computer Done for the Word?”
Marie-Laure Ryan (English, University of Colorado)
Friday, February 27 / 4:00
English Department Seminar Room, SH 2635
Sponsored by the Department of English, Literature.Culture.Media, the Program in Literature and the Mind, and the Department of Film and Media Studies.

The Literature.Culture.Media (LCM) Center continues the work in digital humanities and new media begun in 1998 by the Transcriptions project. Our overall goal is “to build a working paradigm of a humanities department of the future that takes the information revolution to its heart as something to be seriously learned from, wrestled with, and otherwise [...]