ENGL242
Special Topic: Digital Narrative in Digital Culture
Description
In an increasingly digitised, networked, and visual culture, it has become clear that narrative is only one among many forms that is used to organise information and represent our world. The movement from print to digital media, however, has by no means left this cultural form behind. This course will introduce and analyse a range of narrative fiction that has emerged with the ascendancy of digital media, including hypertexts and Web-based fiction; textual adventure games/Interactive Fictions (IFs); and text-based multi-user discourses (MUDs). It will also address the role of narrative in structuring and shaping artefacts of contemporary popular culture that are exclusive to screen media, such as Web-logs (or ‘blogs’) and video games.
EITHER at least 18 points of English at 100 level with a B pass OR at least 36 points of English at 100 level OR any 54 points from the Arts Schedule at 100 level.
