Article:
Topdown Digital Literature: The Effects of Institutional Collaborations and Communities

Author(s): Dijk, Yra van

Abstract

Contrary to what one might think, institutions play an important role in the production, preservation, and funding of electronic literature. Due to the absence of traditional gate-watchers like publishers and newspaper critics, the function of selection, distribution, and reception of this work has been taken over partly by anthologies, reviews and criticism that are produced in an academic climate. Artists need the necessary channels for preservation, distribution, and critical evaluation of the work, channels that have the power to create “cultural capital”. Even the production of work often takes place in an academic or institutional setting. Literary festivals, conferences and workshops form temporary communities in which planned collaboration takes place. This article addresses institutionalized and planned collaboration and its effects on the production, the presentation, and the content of digital literature.

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Dijk, Yra van: Topdown Digital Literature: The Effects of Institutional Collaborations and Communities. In: Dichtung Digital. Journal für Kunst und Kultur digitaler Medien, Jg. 14 (2012-12-20), Nr. 2, S. 1-14. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/17759.
@ARTICLE{Dijk2012-12-20,
 author = {Dijk, Yra van},
 title = {Topdown Digital Literature: The Effects of Institutional Collaborations and Communities},
 year = 2012-12-20,
 doi = "\url{http://dx.doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/17759}",
 volume = 14,
 address = {Basel},
 journal = {Dichtung Digital. Journal für Kunst und Kultur digitaler Medien},
 number = 2,
 pages = {1--14},
}
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