Electronic literature is becoming a major force in the academic world--from course materials to journals online to electronic literature. The trAce/ELO chat on Sunday September 16 (in Lingua MOO) will discuss these burning issues. We would like your input--where do
you think new media literature and electronic publishing fit in the long standing traditions of academic presses?
We'll meet with Jeremy Hunsinger with Virginia Tech Press, Gregory Newby with Project Gutenberg, and the Association of University Presses to discuss:
How can we ensure that electronic literature and criticism count in the world of publish or perish? How do we do peer review and ensure high standards on web publications? How do we handle new issues such as electronic rights and distribution?
Jeremy Hunsinger with Len Hatfield and Timothy Luke is a founder of the Center for Digital Discourse and Culture <http://www.cddc.vt.edu/index2.html> at Virginia Tech. The Center is home to the Virginia Tech Press. During his career at Virginia Tech, Jeremy has participated in several major projects aimed at changing the academy including online education, electronic publication, and the redefinition of academic work. The CDDC's current project, the Virginia Tech Press seeks to re-envision academic publishing and the goals of publishing in general in order to bring about a new awareness of the broader bounds of scholarship that is emerging with new technologies.
Gregory B. Newby, Assistant Professor in the School of Information and Library Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. One of his favorite volunteer activities is his work as the main FTP manager, mailing list maintainer and auxiliary tech guru for Project Gutenberg <http://www.promo.net/pg/>. This is a free collection of thousands of electronic texts, including most of the world's great literature.
----WHEN----
Chats are on Sundays at 22:00 Rome, 21:00 London, 16:00 New York, 14:00 Denver,13:00 L.A, and 06.00 Sydney (Mon).
We will have a half hour practice before the actual chat, the official
archived chat runs an hour, and people are free to continue after the chat.
The third Sunday of every month we have a special program chat. On all the other Sundays, please join us in the trAce webboard chat for a
general discussion of writing, electronic literature, and other topics.
Directions for using the Lingua MOO and the chat webboard are at the bottom of this message.
You can get more information on the chat schedule and read archives at
http://www.eliterature.org/com/index.shtml or email chathost@eliterature.org
----------HOW TO JOIN IN ON LINGUA MOO-------------------- Go to http://lingua.utdallas.edu:7000 Click on the LOG IN button on the left hand side Type in your name at the prompt Once in the MOO, type "@go eliterature" to get to the electronic literature chat room.
--------HOW TO JOIN IN ON THE trAce WEBBOARD------------------
You need to sign in to the WebBoard to use the Chat at http://hum-webboard.ntu.ac.uk/~trace.
Click on the CHAT button in the blue menu (the top toolbar)
Allow the applet to load (be patient!)
Alternatively, use an IRC client such as mIRC (PC) or IRCLE (Mac)
Point your client at hum-webboard.ntu.ac.uk port 7000 and join the channel #trace.
For more information, see <http://trace.ntu.ac.uk/online/moo.htm>
----OUR FALL LINE UP OF CHATS----
October 21 (in trAce WebBoard) FrAme 6: Net : Spirit in WebBoard. Join frAme's authors, editors, and readers to discuss the overarching issues of spirituality on the net.
November 18: Converging electronic art and lit (in Lingua MOO) Electronic literature is rapidly becoming indistinguishable from art
December 16 (in trAce WebBoard) Alt X and e-publishing.
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These chats are a joint production of: trAce <http://trace.ntu.ac.uk/> Electronic Literature Organization <http://www.eliterature.org/>
For more information, please email me at chathost@eliterature.org
Hope to see you there!
Deena Larsen
Jeremy Hunsinger http://www.cddc.vt.edu Instructor of Political Science Center for Digital Discourse and Culture Webmaster/Manager CDDC 526 Major Williams Hall 0130 http://www.cddc.vt.edu/jeremy Virginia Tech --my homepage Blacksburg, VA 24061 (updated, aug. 19 2001) (540)-231-7614 icq 5535471