Our own Alice Bell was invited onto Paulette Edward’s show on BBC Sheffield. Listen here: http://bbc.in/2bBa2mw (interview starts at 01:42:00; episode available until 4 Sept 2016).
Monthly Archives: August 2016
Enter our Writing Competition!
We have just launched the first ever competition aimed at finding the best new examples of “popular” digital fiction! Our “Opening Up Digital Fiction” aims to discover digital fiction that appeals to mainstream audiences. We are accepting submissions in English and in Welsh and looking for works by all kinds of writers from rookies to veterans. See the Opening Up Digital Fiction Writing Competition for more information on what we are looking for, what you can win, and how to enter.
Readers, Digital Fiction, and Immersion
We’ve had a great summer, presenting our research on immersion at three international conferences: the Electronic Literature Organization conference in Victoria (Canada), the Mind-Media-Narrative conference in Warsaw (Poland), and the Poetics and Linguistics Association conference in Cagliari (Sardinia).
Using empirical methods to explore the way that readers experience Judi Alston and Andy Campbell’s digital fiction WALLPAPER, we’ve found that immersion isn’t as straight-forward as current theories suggest. Rather than immersion being something that is completely totalising or enveloping, we’ve found that it can actually be intermittent with readers’ attention switching between different aspects of the fiction. We thus see immersion as a multidimensional experience in which the reader is pushed and pulled inside and outside a fictional world. We’re planning to publish two articles on this work. Watch this space for details.
PI Alice Bell
Walk-through of WALLPAPER
PI Alice Bell and Researcher Isabelle van der Bom
Alice Bell and Isabelle van der Bom
Photos of Alice Bell and Isabelle van der Bom at the PALA conference, July 2016.
Reading Digital Fiction 