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Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-237) and index.

Introduction -- 1. From e-literary text to e-literary service and performance -- 2. New media art as research: art-making beyond the autonomy of art and aesthetics -- 3. The closeness that grows toward the user -- 4. An expanded concept of textuality: cycling as reading a cityscape -- 5. Gaming culture: event space on the move -- 6. E-literary text as a ride -- 7. Digital poetry and the world of cyber-language -- 8. New media art and the social -- 9. Derivative writing: e-literature in the world of new social and economic paradigms -- 10. The nomadic cockpit -- 11. E-literature and new media art -- 12. An expanded concept of e-literary criticism.

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Text as Ride re-situates our understanding of new media in the social contexts of mobile apps, thrill rides, walking in the city, 3D cinema, video games, and DJ culture. Rather than a continuation of print-based literature by other means, this book considers electronic literature as a practice that foregrounds new media's specificity. Janez Strehovec deals with post-hypertext eLiterature that has become conceptual: Moving beyond hyperlinked storytelling, it deals with digital materiality and boundaries of language; with code, textual ecology, and the limits of the sayable. This book will appeal to scholars of electronic literature, gaming, urban studies, cinema, and digital culture.

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