E-Textuality Workshop
Code
722011029
Academic unit
Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas
Department
Ciências da Comunicação
Credits
10
Weekly hours
3 letivas + 1 tutorial
Teaching language
Portuguese
Objectives
a) Discussing issues and trends in digital communication and cybertext
b) Using hypertext and hypermedia applications and software
c) Reading and writing digital texts
d) Conception and creation of a hypertext/hypermedia project
Prerequisites
None.
Subject matter
1.Literary communication and creation in a digital era
2.Methods and methodologies for the production and evaluation of knowledge with hypertext and hypermedia
3.Cyberliterature: From computer-generated literature to computer-animated poetry and cybertheatre
4.Laboratory of digital writing
Bibliography
HAYLES, N. K. (2008). Electronic Literature: New Horizons for the Literary. Notre Dame, Indiana: University of Notre Dame.
SCHREIBMAN, S. and SIEMMENS, R. eds. (2008). A Companion to Digital Literary Studies. Oxford: Blackwell.
FUNKHOUSER, C. T. (2007). Prehistoric Digital Poetry: An Archaeology of Forms, 1959-1995. University of Alabama Press.
GLAZIER, L. P. (2002). Digital Poetics. The Making of E-Poetries. Tuscaloosa: U of Alabama P.
BARBOSA, P. (1996). A Ciberliteratura. Criação Literária e Computador. Lisboa, Cosmos.
Teaching method
Practical classes for the acquisition of informatics competences in the areas of hypertext and hypermedia.
Conception and development of an experimental work, theoretically justified.
Evaluation method
1. Wiki article: 25%, 22h
2. Project of digital writing (75%) including:
2.1. Summary, state-of-the-art and theoretical framework, descriptive memory: 20h
2.2. Storyboard, Interface design, gathering and editing of multimedia elements: 60 h
2.3. Programming of the application and publication: 110 h