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This chapter defines what electronic literature is and provides a wealth of examples and practical suggestions for creating different types—hypertext fiction, interactive fiction, cell phone novels, digital poetry, and virtual and augmented reality. The authors also explore the new affordances of electronic literature and the ways in which it democratises the production and consumption of literature, while acknowledging that access to digital literature may be currently privileged to particular groups.
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Naji, J., Subramaniam, G., White, G. (2019). Literature and Technology. In: New Approaches to Literature for Language Learning. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-15256-7_5
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