Pre-web Digital Publishing and the Lore of Electronic Literature
Pre-web Digital Publishing and the Lore of Electronic Literature
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前网络数字出版和电子文学知识
DOI：
10.1017/9781108903165
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发表时间：
2022
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A. Ensslin
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本单元通过对前网络时代、严肃的超文本期刊《东门超文本季刊评论》（1994-1995）的案例研究，考察了数字出版近代史上的一个分水岭时刻。早期的超文本写作依赖于独立的大型计算机和专门的创作软件。随着网络作为大众传播平台的推出，EQRH面临着快速发展的技术前景，以及新兴的礼物和开放获取经济。它的非线性写作实验提供了对历史的、媒介特定的创作实践的关键见解。访问限制使得EQRH研究不足，并受到过时的威胁。为了应对这一挑战，本研究提供了所有EQRH跨媒体材料的平台特定分析，包括迄今为止尚未引起学术关注的作品。它部署了一种概念上口头的民族史学形式：对电子文学的热爱。“元素”加深了我们对北美出版业历史的理解，并为早期数字写作的过期保存做出了贡献。
This Element examines a watershed moment in the recent history of digital publishing through a case study of the pre-web, serious hypertext periodical, the Eastgate Quarterly Review of Hypertext (1994-1995). Early hypertext writing relied on standalone, mainframe computers and specialized authoring software. With the Web launching as a mass distribution platform, EQRH faced a fast-evolving technological landscape, paired with an emergent gift and open access economy. Its non-linear writing experiments afford key insights into historical, medium-specific authoring practices. Access constraints have left EQRH under-researched and threatened by obsolescence. To address this challenge, this study offers platform-specific analyses of all the EQRH's cross-media materials, including works that have hitherto escaped scholarly attention. It deploys a form of conceptually oral ethno-historiography: the lore of electronic literature. The Element deepens our understanding of the North American publishing industry's history and contributes to the overdue preservation of early digital writing.