Angela A Thomas

Digital Fiction

Digital Fiction Workshop

In the first part of the workshop we’ll explore and discuss a range of examples of digital fiction, and in the second part of the workshop we’ll evaluate one example of Digital Fiction and its pedagogical teaching resource.

Part 1:

Explore some of the digital fiction examples from the links below as highlighted in the slideshow. Choose one that interests you to respond to the following questions:

  1. How are you positioned as a reader/writer?
  2. What affordances are represented in the text?
  3. What attributes are similar to “old” forms of literacies, and what might be considered “new”? Add to the whiteboard

Part 2:

Exploring Inanimate Alice

  1. Read through the three episodes.
  2. Discuss the accompanying pedagogical resource with one of your colleagues. In what ways might you incorporate the text into your own teaching, and which elements of the pedagogy resource could you adapt for your particular context? Lets share!

Part 3:

Check out Alan Levine’s 50 Ways to Tell a Story 

Digital Fiction & New Forms of Narrative


Some of my favourite examples of new forms of narrative and the people that theorise about them.

Webisodics and Filmic Fiction:

Digital and Interactive Fiction:

Distributed Narratives:

Literatronics:

Alternate Reality Games:

Blog Fiction:

Kids on the Net Interactive Fiction:

Interactive Role-playing Forums:

Flickr Fiction:

Mobile Phone Fiction:

NaNoWriMo:

Video Fiction:

Wiki Novel:

Twitter Fiction:

Facebook Fiction:

Machinima:

  • various examples here

SMS poetry / fiction:

Other Microfiction:

FYI: Links to Digital Fiction Theory:

Links and Lists: