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What has become most apparent in reflecting back on my posts is my propensity to focus on reader response in reference to digital literature. I think this is interesting specifically because in my normal analysis of literature, I usually stray away from reader-response theory as a methodology.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n I was particularly interested in this first in \u201cMy Body\u201d by Shelley Jackson (which, in retrospect I thought was American novelist SHIRLEY Jackson). The idea of tactility through the digital interface, specifically in rendering disembodiment, I felt exemplified Jackson\u2019s larger critique of the \u201cdigital body\u201d. There is a kind of prosthetic alignment between the body and technology that my posts explored, and ultimately, so too did my tracery project.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n I disliked games like \u201cDakota\u201d and \u201cQueers in Love at the End of The World\u201d because they lacked the kind of interactivity that I felt was enjoyable. I also notably disliked games that were anti-user (i.e games that made analysis difficult due to their game mechanics). In this vein, I was concerned with the material surroundings of the reader\u2019s interaction with these works. My blog post regarding Her Story reflected this interest in empathy building through interactive games and I particularly was impressed by the work\u2019s ability to engage the reader\u2019s humane instincts and perceptive abilities\u00a0 in its storytelling.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n My posts therefore, and with much consistency, analyzed the nature of readership in electronic literature. I think part of the reason why I zoned in on empathy and reader-response was because initially I had a hard time paying attention to the works on my computer. I found I clicked through some of them without really looking for their subtleties. I\u2019m pretty anti-ebook for reasons of distraction and I think some of those prejudices flooded by engagement with digital works. I feel like this changed as I grew more invested in the works, particularly the ones like \u201cHer Story\u201d that placed more importance on the reader\u2019s analytical faculties. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" What has become most apparent in reflecting back on my posts is my propensity to focus on reader response in reference to digital literature. I think this is interesting specifically because in my normal analysis of literature, I usually stray away from reader-response theory as a methodology.\u00a0 I was particularly interested in this first …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":238,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/elit20\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/786","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/elit20\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/elit20\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/elit20\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/238"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/elit20\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=786"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/elit20\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/786\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":787,"href":"https:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/elit20\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/786\/revisions\/787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/elit20\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/elit20\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/elit20\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}