Electronic literature, or digital literature, is a genre of literature in which digital capabilities such as interactivity, multimodality or algorithmic text generation are used aesthetically. Works of electronic literature are usually intended to be read on digital devices such as computers, tablets and mobile phones; many cannot easily be printed, or cannot be printed at all, because elements crucial to the work do not survive being carried over onto a printed version.
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Place of OriginBritish computing research of the early 1950s, exemplified by Christopher Strachey's 1952 love letter generator written for the Manchester Mark 1 computer, among the first works of literature requiring a computer to be generated or read. 1 Notable ExampleMichael Joyce's afternoon, a story (1987), one of the most cited works of hypertext fiction, published on the Storyspace software distributed by Eastgate Systems. 1 Defining TraitA genre of literature where digital capabilities such as interactivity, multimodality or algorithmic text generation are used aesthetically, usually meant to be read on a digital device rather than printed. 1 Sources
1. Electronic Literature (Wikipedia)
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Electronic literature or digital literature is a genre of literature where digital capabilities such as interactivity, multimodality or algorithmic text generation are used aesthetically.
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