Chapter 7

In the final chapter of electronic literature, Rettberg briefly covers the previously uncovered kinds of e-lit. He makes it known that these are most certainly not the least interesting, but maybe just the newest and least covered types of e-lit. The final four types of e-lit he focuses on are locative narratives, expanded cinema, virtual reality and augmented reality. Locative narratives are m favorite because it involves real movement throughout the world, as well as technology to experience the story. A story experienced through scannable QR codes at real locations to describe a scene sounds amazing. It also reminds me of certain black mirror concepts. If these concepts were used in a more lighthearted and humane way, would be incredibly innovative. Virtual reality and augmented reality are things I’ve experienced a decent amount already, so I get less excite about it. I kind of expect it now. All in all, this boo just hyped me up for a potential cool future with lots of new media, but also scares me because we could lose a lot of our roots.

I investigated Pry by Danny Cannizzaro and Samantha Gorman. It is an app that creates expanded cinema, aka, kinetic e-books. These seem like e-books with pages you can rip and scenes you can watch on a different page. Could be cool.

Trevor