Ephemerality is a notion that has become relevant in analyzing digital cultural phenomena. Initia... more Ephemerality is a notion that has become relevant in analyzing digital cultural phenomena. Initially, the notion ephemera was used to denote the fragmented documents of everyday life. However, during the spread of contemporary digital culture, the notion of ephemerality has been widely used in discussing the production and reception of social media, digital literary and art works etc. Such cultural phenomena could be characterized as temporary and having a short lifespan. The objective of the present article is to examine the representation of ephemerality in case studies of Estonian digital culture, and to ask whether ephemerality could be considered a category of criticism in the study of representations of digital culture. For finding answers we examine in our article two different types of manifestations of digital culture in Estonia: digital literature created by Estonian authors, and digital literary heritage projects carried out in Estonia, which are presented as network-based interactive information environments. As a result of our research we conclude that we can analyze these examples of digital literature and digital literary historical projects in the context of ephemerality indeed. Thus, we argue, ephemerality is one of the essential notions which can be used in analyzing digital culture.
Contemporary society has become an information society and hence it makes sense to interpret vari... more Contemporary society has become an information society and hence it makes sense to interpret various changes in the cultural sphere. Connections between computer technology and literature are one aspect of the complicated global set of problems in tackling the adaptation of texts with the media. The article focuses on what happens with literary texts in cyberspace, how they adapt to that environment, and it examines the forms of “cyberliterature”. The most comprehensive definition of cyberliterature derives from the concept of digital literature, i.e. literature created on the computer and presented by means of the computer. Trying to narrow the concept of cyberliterature, it can be characterised by certain computer-specific qualities: multi-linearity, different parts of hypertexts connected by links, uniting the written text with multimedia, interactivity etc. The second part of the article analyses a specific sub-category, one of the most intriguing border areas of cyberliterature...
Contemporary society has become an information society and hence it makes sense to interpret vari... more Contemporary society has become an information society and hence it makes sense to interpret various changes in the cultural sphere. Connections between computer technology and literature are one aspect of the complicated global set of problems in tackling the adaptation of texts with the media. The article focuses on what happens with literary texts in cyberspace, how they adapt to that environment, and it examines the forms of “cyberliterature”. The most comprehensive definition of cyberliterature derives from the concept of digital literature, i.e. literature created on the computer and presented by means of the computer. Trying to narrow the concept of cyberliterature, it can be characterised by certain computer-specific qualities: multi-linearity, different parts of hypertexts connected by links, uniting the written text with multimedia, interactivity etc. The second part of the article analyses a specific sub-category, one of the most intriguing border areas of cyberliterature...
Ephemerality is a notion that has become relevant in analyzing digital cultural phenomena. Initia... more Ephemerality is a notion that has become relevant in analyzing digital cultural phenomena. Initially, the notion ephemera was used to denote the fragmented documents of everyday life. However, during the spread of contemporary digital culture, the notion of ephemerality has been widely used in discussing the production and reception of social media, digital literary and art works etc. Such cultural phenomena could be characterized as temporary and having a short lifespan. The objective of the present article is to examine the representation of ephemerality in case studies of Estonian digital culture, and to ask whether ephemerality could be considered a category of criticism in the study of representations of digital culture. For finding answers we examine in our article two different types of manifestations of digital culture in Estonia: digital literature created by Estonian authors, and digital literary heritage projects carried out in Estonia, which are presented as network-based interactive information environments. As a result of our research we conclude that we can analyze these examples of digital literature and digital literary historical projects in the context of ephemerality indeed. Thus, we argue, ephemerality is one of the essential notions which can be used in analyzing digital culture.
Contemporary society has become an information society and hence it makes sense to interpret vari... more Contemporary society has become an information society and hence it makes sense to interpret various changes in the cultural sphere. Connections between computer technology and literature are one aspect of the complicated global set of problems in tackling the adaptation of texts with the media. The article focuses on what happens with literary texts in cyberspace, how they adapt to that environment, and it examines the forms of “cyberliterature”. The most comprehensive definition of cyberliterature derives from the concept of digital literature, i.e. literature created on the computer and presented by means of the computer. Trying to narrow the concept of cyberliterature, it can be characterised by certain computer-specific qualities: multi-linearity, different parts of hypertexts connected by links, uniting the written text with multimedia, interactivity etc. The second part of the article analyses a specific sub-category, one of the most intriguing border areas of cyberliterature...
Contemporary society has become an information society and hence it makes sense to interpret vari... more Contemporary society has become an information society and hence it makes sense to interpret various changes in the cultural sphere. Connections between computer technology and literature are one aspect of the complicated global set of problems in tackling the adaptation of texts with the media. The article focuses on what happens with literary texts in cyberspace, how they adapt to that environment, and it examines the forms of “cyberliterature”. The most comprehensive definition of cyberliterature derives from the concept of digital literature, i.e. literature created on the computer and presented by means of the computer. Trying to narrow the concept of cyberliterature, it can be characterised by certain computer-specific qualities: multi-linearity, different parts of hypertexts connected by links, uniting the written text with multimedia, interactivity etc. The second part of the article analyses a specific sub-category, one of the most intriguing border areas of cyberliterature...
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