David M Meurer
PhD, Joint Graduate Program in Communication and Culture, York and Ryerson Universities, 2015
My dissertation is a study of emergent, network forms of literary cultural expression, of the relations between these narrative forms and prior forms of cultural expression, and of the participatory models of cultural production that underpin network narratives.
My research interests include electronic literature, authorship, digital archives, intellectual property, print culture, network culture, information society, media studies and narratology.
Recent and notable digital projects include:
Project management, research, and research coordination for ArtmobCMS - a cultural Content Management System. ArtmobCMS uses principles of fair dealing to mitigate the copyright challenges involved in making cultural resources available online, in Canada, for non-commercial, educational purposes.
User interface development and project management for Modern Theatre in Context: An Interactive Chronology of Modern Drama. Chronological entries of developments in Western drama, including news headlines and expanded news entries, bios and supplementary information, key play publication information. Custom content management system.
User interface development and project management for NewMindsets (purchased by ClevrU), an award-winning, second-generation Learning Management System used by Schulich School of Business. Modular knowledge-sharing platform with diagnostic tools for applied business management learning.
Supervisors: Monique Tschofen, Rosemary J. Coombe, and Caitlin Fisher
Address: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
My dissertation is a study of emergent, network forms of literary cultural expression, of the relations between these narrative forms and prior forms of cultural expression, and of the participatory models of cultural production that underpin network narratives.
My research interests include electronic literature, authorship, digital archives, intellectual property, print culture, network culture, information society, media studies and narratology.
Recent and notable digital projects include:
Project management, research, and research coordination for ArtmobCMS - a cultural Content Management System. ArtmobCMS uses principles of fair dealing to mitigate the copyright challenges involved in making cultural resources available online, in Canada, for non-commercial, educational purposes.
User interface development and project management for Modern Theatre in Context: An Interactive Chronology of Modern Drama. Chronological entries of developments in Western drama, including news headlines and expanded news entries, bios and supplementary information, key play publication information. Custom content management system.
User interface development and project management for NewMindsets (purchased by ClevrU), an award-winning, second-generation Learning Management System used by Schulich School of Business. Modular knowledge-sharing platform with diagnostic tools for applied business management learning.
Supervisors: Monique Tschofen, Rosemary J. Coombe, and Caitlin Fisher
Address: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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This paper explores the participatory strategies employed within three works of digital narrative. The Silent History, an iOS app, solicits image and text contributions that are geotagged and made available through a map application. BurtonStory, a Twitter fiction, invited contributions from users who tweeted using a dedicated hash tag. Out My Window, an interactive documentary, incorporates photographs submitted to a Flickr photo-sharing group. Each of these narratives exhibits distinct approaches to integrating user-generated contributions.
Through a comparative analysis of the narrative structure, interactive architectures, and participation models in these works, I will explore the strategic complementarity among these aspects of the works. As I will argue, narratives that are structurally predicated on participatory contributions are of necessity less multimodal, while narratives that are highly multimodal are less participatory and channel contributions through a selective, curatorial, or editorial process, or by structurally isolating user-generated content in a companion project or island cluster linked to the main narrative hub by a single or very small number of ties. To conclude, this paper will consider whether the strategies employed in the discussed narrative works offer a model for developing participatory fiction.
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This paper explores the participatory strategies employed within three works of digital narrative. The Silent History, an iOS app, solicits image and text contributions that are geotagged and made available through a map application. BurtonStory, a Twitter fiction, invited contributions from users who tweeted using a dedicated hash tag. Out My Window, an interactive documentary, incorporates photographs submitted to a Flickr photo-sharing group. Each of these narratives exhibits distinct approaches to integrating user-generated contributions.
Through a comparative analysis of the narrative structure, interactive architectures, and participation models in these works, I will explore the strategic complementarity among these aspects of the works. As I will argue, narratives that are structurally predicated on participatory contributions are of necessity less multimodal, while narratives that are highly multimodal are less participatory and channel contributions through a selective, curatorial, or editorial process, or by structurally isolating user-generated content in a companion project or island cluster linked to the main narrative hub by a single or very small number of ties. To conclude, this paper will consider whether the strategies employed in the discussed narrative works offer a model for developing participatory fiction.