The convergence of electronic media and literary forms during the digital revolution has produced a variety of hybrid genres which in the present day are often labelled as “electronic literature”. In order...
Always eager to explore… Aren’t we so tired of hearing this word in academic writing? Shall I say ‘observe’? Or ‘investigate’? Even worse… I’ll begin again. I have always been eager to...
Since at least the time of Conan Doyle and his Sherlock Holmes stories, every product of popular culture has had its fans (short for “fanatics”). Since at least the time of Star...
Digital videoessay-making is an important strand in the present and future of academic communication, already used to disseminate research and results to general public and scholarly peers, and often used for teaching,...
My current research project, which is funded by an Irish Research Council Government of Ireland Postdoctoral Fellowship, focuses on representations of contemporary Italian youth on the video sharing platform YouTube. I am...
In Gorizia, Haya Tedeschi sits waiting for her long-lost son and endlessly sorts through the assembled contents of her life, which she has archived in a deep red basket that reaches up...
“I am Kino-Eye. I am a builder. I have placed you, who I’ve created today, in an extraordinary room which did not exist until just now when I also created it. In...
There are some recurring basic concepts in the humanities and social sciences that seem to be under perennial debate. They are constantly under attack for being ‘simplistic’ or criticised for being vague...
In the last twenty years, intermediality and related concepts such as adaptation (Linda Hutcheon), remediation (Jay David Bolter/Richard Grusin) and transmedia (Henry Jenkins) have become exceptionally productive in a range of disciplines...
When Umberto Eco published his seminal essay Opera aperta [The Open Work] in 1962, a number of experiments across literature and computer machines had set the ground of what we call today...