I missed this week lecture as i was sick and there are no lecture notes so i have decided to comment on the reading instead.
The required exploration/reading this week is pretty funny. It’s titled “Ten reasons why I hate Digital literature”. Its a blog post covering why ‘eabigelow’ (bloggers name) doesn’t appreciate digital literature. It’s a pretty entertaining read. He claims that 1- no one knows what digital literature is, 2- to create it requires sitting a computer screen alot , 3- you can easily over edit your work and ruin it even more than before your began editing it and 4- Typos are your fault if you in work in digital literature because there is no editor to edit your work before its published.
The argument I find the most interest and humorous is definitely the fact that over editing is so easily available when you’re writing on the web and on a computer. You can so easily edit and alter your work on a computer; it becomes an obsession to tweak it because it’s so easy to do. You can over edit so much that you end up where you began.
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