Jason Boyd
@jasonaboyd.bsky.social
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Assoc Prof, English, Toronto Metropolitan University (TMU); Director, TMU Centre for Digital Humanities, https://www.torontomu.ca/centre-digital-humanities/. Research interests include connections between literary studies and video games, eLit, queer DH
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Happy to see ‘Digital Editing and Publishing in the Twenty-First Century’ published by @scotunipress.bsky.social, is out!! Open access: available in print, PDF, EPUB. I have an essay in it: “The Ludic Edition: Playful Futures for Digital Scholarly Editing”! books.sup.ac.uk/sup/catalog/...
Digital editing and publishing in the twenty-first century | Scottish Universities Press
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videlais.bsky.social
As announced at #elo25, work toward the Electronic Literature Collection 5 (to be published in 2027) has begun and a call for submissions will soon be released.

We are asking for help translating and spreading the upcoming call.

Past ELCs: collection.eliterature.org
Call for volunteer consultants to help with translating the upcoming call-for-submissions and spreading call to different communities.
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videlais.bsky.social
If you missed my #elo25 talk earlier today, More History for the "Little Engine": Preserving the History and Works of Bitsy, here are my slides.

Summary: Bitsy will be 10 next year; I've been working on documenting its journey.

Slides: docs.google.com/presentation...
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While at #ELO25 I’m launching a new online project. Here is “No Time to Discourse”—a speculative atlas of future climate disaster. Millions of (non-AI) procedurally generated flash fiction disaster stories. And they all hit a little too close to home these days. notime.now
A water color map with a bunch a red pins. One popup displays a flash fiction disaster story: 

Akron, Ohio
Monday, September 6, 2027

"It's hotter than Hades," they say. They're right. Hades is the devil's icebox compared to this. The tracks near Akron buckle, a sun kink it's called, derailing a freight train carrying chlorine and ethanol. The ambient sound of ten thousand HVACs washes over the land.
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@msterslev.bsky.social showing the BERTIFIER transformation of Tristan Tzara’s “How to write a Dada poem” #elo25:
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If you see @samplereality.bsky.social at #elo25, ask him for a bookmark for his latest project “No Time For Discourse” notime.now
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Jose Dias’s exploration of the expressiveness of the hyperlink in Twine is accompanied by real-time illustration! #elo25
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@videlais.bsky.social is giving a fascinating talk about the j history of Bitsy and the works created using it. Dan has great videos about how to use Bitsy on YouTube! #elo25
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@scottrettberg.bsky.social is giving us an entertaining account of his early experiences with eLit, including coauthorship of the hypertext The Unknown #elo25
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I’m at ELO@25 Love Letters to the Past and Future conference at York University, with @caitlinfisher.bsky.social & @laitze.bsky.social opening the event! #elo25
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Happy to see ‘Digital Editing and Publishing in the Twenty-First Century’ published by @scotunipress.bsky.social, is out!! Open access: available in print, PDF, EPUB. I have an essay in it: “The Ludic Edition: Playful Futures for Digital Scholarly Editing”! books.sup.ac.uk/sup/catalog/...
Digital editing and publishing in the twenty-first century | Scottish Universities Press
books.sup.ac.uk
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I’ll be virtually presenting my paper “Adjusting the Virtual Dial: Video Game Adoptions and Adaptations of the Radio” today at session 14: Meaning through Mechanics (2pm EST) at the International Conference on Games and Narrative 2025 @uwaterloo.ca #icgan2025
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I don’t think so, but Emma’s keynote is drawn from her essay in Historiographies of Game Studies, forthcoming this year from Punctum Books in open access! punctumbooks.t/titles/histo...
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I’m attending (virtually) Emma Vossen’s keynote at the International Conference on Games & Narrative (ICGAN), “Narratology vs Ludology: The Debate that has Haunted Game Studies for Two Decades and Counting”. Emma is co-editor of the forthcoming Historiographies of Game Studies (Punctum Books)!
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Looking forward to chatting tomorrow with @paulbarrett1.bsky.social and Sarah Roger about their collection Future Horizons: Canadian Digital Humanities at @torontomet.bsky.social’s Centre for Digital Humanities! Details here: cdh.rula.info/newsletter/
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I’m attending the Toronto launch of Output: Computer-Generated Text, 1963-2023 edited by Nick Montfort & Lillian-Yvonne Bertram, published by @mitpress.bsky.social
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Tomorrow (January 14), the Centre for Digital Humanities will resume its programming with Reading Bytes, where we’ll continue our discussion of Alan Blackwell’s Moral Codes: Designing Alternatives to AI. Check out & join us for the other great events happening this month! cdh.rula.info/newsletter/
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It’s #DayofDH 2024, sponsored by dhcenternet.org! The Centre for Digital Humanities at Toronto Metropolitan U is hosting “Diary of a Digital Humanist,” led by Reg Beatty! More details here: cdh.rula.info/newsletter/
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