This Element examines a watershed moment in the recent history of digital publishing through a case study of the pre-web, serious hypertext periodical, the Eastgate Quarterly Review of Hypertext (1994-1995). Early hypertext writing relied on standalone, mainframe computers and specialized authoring software. With the Web launching as a mass distribution platform, EQRH faced a fast-evolving technological landscape, paired with an emergent gift and open access economy. Its non-linear writing experiments afford key insights into historical, medium-specific authoring practices. Access constraints have left EQRH under-researched and threatened by obsolescence. To address this challenge, this study offers platform-specific analyses of all the EQRH's cross-media materials, including works that have hitherto escaped scholarly attention. It deploys a form of conceptually oral ethno-historiography: the lore of electronic literature. The Element deepens our understanding of the North American publishing industry's history and contributes to the overdue preservation of early digital writing.
Produkteigenschaften
- Artikelnummer: 9781108828888
- Medium: Buch
- ISBN: 978-1-108-82888-8
- Verlag: Cambridge University Press
- Erscheinungstermin: 31.03.2022
- Sprache(n): Englisch
- Auflage: Erscheinungsjahr 2022
- Serie: Elements in Publishing and Book Culture
- Produktform: Kartoniert
- Gewicht: 132 g
- Seiten: 75
- Format (B x H x T): 127 x 178 x 8 mm
- Ausgabetyp: Kein, Unbekannt