Reading Time: 2 minutes “Is the smartphone – always with us, always on – the perfect reading device?” – Kate Pullinger (Writer and Professor of Creative Writing and Digital Media at Bath Spa University) The newly launched Beyond the Book commission is for digital writers with a connection to the South West of England who want to answer this question. Developed by… Read more »
Articles by Amy Spencer
MIX 2019: Experiential Storytelling at Corsham Court
Amy Spencer
Reading Time: 2 minutes I first went to MIX in July 2013. It was the second MIX and the first conference I had ever attended. When I arrived, I stood at the bottom of Corsham Court’s long driveway and looked up at one of the grandest houses I had ever seen; an Elizabethan mansion that houses Bath Spa University’s… Read more »
What in the world is ambient literature?
Amy Spencer
Reading Time: 4 minutes Can we shape a digital literary form using the world around us? What happens to literature when a reader is mobile and engaged in a narrative both spatially and temporally? How can a writer use ubiquitous computing, available using a smartphone, to situate readers in a literary work? Such questions brought together researchers from three… Read more »
A Short History of Location-based Writing
Amy Spencer
Reading Time: 3 minutes Imagine a narrative woven through a city street. As a reader you can access fragments of story by navigating a physical space using a digital device such as a smartphone or tablet. As you walk past a library, you might be told about the history of the books inside. Walking part a church might trigger… Read more »
A Short History of the Networked Novel
Amy Spencer
Reading Time: 3 minutes Digital technologies have given writers countless opportunities to experiment and play. New forms of digital writing are possible online and writers are embracing their potential. They give us a chance to reconsider our roles as writers and provide us with unexpected ways to connect with our readers. The networked novel has emerged over the past… Read more »