Overview
- Argues for the potentiality of a new literary form produced by the exchange between location aware cultural objects, writers and readers
- Lays the ground for a new poetics of situated writing and reading practices
- Draws on literary studies, creative writing, design, human-computer interaction, performance and new media studies
- Argues that specific attention to the literary is absent in conventional accounts of digital cultures
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Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Tom Abba is a writer and designer working with the form of digital and physical books. He is Associate Professor of Art & Design at UWE Bristol, UK, and a member of UWE’s Digital Cultures Research Centre.
Jon Dovey is Professor of Screen Media at the Faculty of Arts, Creative Industries, and Education at UWE Bristol, UK. Jon works across theory and practice and researches technology and cultural form.
Kate Pullinger is Professor of Creative Writing and Digital Media at Bath Spa University, UK, and the Director of the Centre for Cultural and Creative Industries. Her novel Forest Green will be published in 2020.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Ambient Literature
Book Subtitle: Towards a New Poetics of Situated Writing and Reading Practices
Editors: Tom Abba, Jonathan Dovey, Kate Pullinger
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-41456-6
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-41455-9Published: 01 December 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-41458-0Published: 02 December 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-41456-6Published: 30 November 2020
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 337
Number of Illustrations: 6 b/w illustrations, 15 illustrations in colour
Topics: Literature and Technology/Media, Digital Humanities, Digital/New Media, Philosophy of Science, Historiography and Method