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Happy new year to you and yours, and all best wishes for 2021! This month at ebr, we are publishing the final contributions to Scott Rettberg and Alex Saum-Pascual’s salient gathering “Electronic Literature [Frame]works for the Creative Digital Humanities.” To celebrate Dene Grigar and James O’Sullivan’s newly released co-edited volume Electronic Literature As Digital Humanities: Contexts, Forms and Practices (Bloomsbury, 2021), we are re-printing its introduction! * ANNOUNCEMENTS The 2021 meeting of the ELO will be held virtually from May 24 — 28, hosted by Scott Rettberg at the University o… continue

This month we bring two insightful reviews: Sarah Whitcomb Laiola discusses Stephanie Strickland’s wonderfully intricate new poetic book Ringing the Changes (Counterpath Press, 2020) and Stuart Moulthrop follows Noah Wardrip-Fruin in his effort to urge game studies into a new direction (How Pac-Man East, MIT Press, 2020). Next Sunday, on November 8, three new [Frame]works Gathering essays will be published: “Documenting a Field: The Life and Afterlife of the ELMCIP Collaborative Research Project and Electronic Literature Knowledge Base” by Scott Rettberg, “Speculative Interfaces: How Electroni… continue

“Electronic Literature [Frame]works for the Creative Digital Humanities,” edited by Scott Rettberg and Alex Saum-Pascual, gathers a selection of articles exploring the evolving relationship between electronic literature and the digital humanities in Europe, North and South America. The collection was originally presented at the Summer 2019 [Frame]works conference at UC Berkeley. This exciting gathering will continue in every issue of ebr until December 2020. See the planned publication schedule. * Call for Proposals: The ELO is currently seeking to encourage the creation of new… continue

“Electronic Literature [Frame]works for the Creative Digital Humanities,” edited by Scott Rettberg and Alex Saum-Pascual, gathers a selection of articles exploring the evolving relationship between electronic literature and the digital humanities in Europe, North and South America. The collection was originally presented at the Summer 2019 [Frame]works conference at UC Berkeley. This exciting gathering will continue in every issue of ebr until December 2020. See the planned publication schedule. * ebr is delighted to announce that our Editorial Board has expanded to include four new Editors. I… continue

“Electronic Literature [Frame]works for the Creative Digital Humanities,” edited by Scott Rettberg and Alex Saum-Pascual, gathers a selection of articles exploring the evolving relationship between electronic literature and the digital humanities in Europe, North and South America. The collection was originally presented at the Summer 2019 [Frame]works conference at UC Berkeley. This exciting gathering will continue in every issue of ebr until December 2020. See the planned publication schedule. * In “Digital Creativity as Critical Material Thinking: The Disruptive Potential of Electronic Lite… continue