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Hearing The Voices Of The Deserters: Activist Critical Making In Electronic Literature, Laura Okkema
Hearing The Voices Of The Deserters: Activist Critical Making In Electronic Literature, Laura Okkema
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Critical making is an approach to scholarship which combines discursive methods with creative practices. The concept has recently gained traction in the digital humanities, where scholars are looking for ways of integrating making into their research in ways that are inclusive and empowering to marginalized populations. This dissertation explores how digital humanists can engage critical making as a form of activism in electronic literature, specifically in the interactive fiction platform Twine. The author analyzes the making process of her own activist Twine game The Deserters and embeds the project within digital humanities discourses on activism and social justice, hypertext, electronic …