ENGL 303: Multimedia Writing

A definition and historical look at Fan Fiction.

General fanfiction information. This site gives an exhaustive look at the idea behind the practice of fanfiction. It talks about issues from history, to genres, to legality. As it is written as a wiki, it is easy to understand.

This is one of many forums on this site where individuals can post entries with text and images and can receive comments. All forums are very nature oriented.

Free music, uploaded by anyone, literally every song you can think of can be found here

A site for people to post books, poems, articles, short stories, and other types of writing to get feedback from peers.

Cell phone novels are a big deal in Japan. The novel are written via cell phone using short text messages. Unfortunately for us, they're in Japanese. According to Wired: "A mobile phone novel typically contains between 200 and 500 pages, with each page containing about 500 Japanese characters. The novels are read on a cell phone screen page by page, the way one would surf the web, and are downloadable for around $10 each."

A closer look as mishaps in the world of photoshopped photos!

This website allows DJ's to remix versions of songs from various artists and place them together under one playlist. Visitors to the site can then commen on the mixtape, as well as listen/download it.

This is an article about what makes an object on the web valuable, what gives it "quality," in a world where everything is a copy of copy of copy (as the digital world it).

This article opposes the fact that texting hinders literacy.

The network associated with my other link for 10,000 birds.

Where the Wild Things Are

This website is just an example of a writer who is currently releasing his novel on Twitter, by way of tweeting 140 characters at a time. He compares releasing his novel on Twitter as the equivalent to watching a short clip of a movie, before deciding to buy the entire thing. He feels by releasing 140 characters at a time, it will grab people's attention. This website demonstrates how not only is, Matt Stewart, releasing his novel via Twitter, but how other authors are deciding to do the same thing. Is releasing a novel via Twitter going to be the same as releasing the actual publish book in the bookstores? Does Stewart, along with the various other authors have rights to each of their "tweets"? How easy would it be to steal Stewart's novel, by simply copying and pasting all of his tweets into one large document. Is it novel protected from someone else stealing his ideas?

Everyone collaborates with and through the machine?

A web comic with great advice and great lessons for anyone in any stage of life.

Once just a fad, Twitter is developing into a powerful form of communication. What its growth says about us - and the future of American innovation

This site is dedicated to helping Internet users protect their anonymity and their privacy. Anonymity.com offers an anonymity test that helps Internet users to understand what kind of information they are revealing about their identity when surfing the Internet. The anonymity test uses symbols to warn users when they are revealing information that they may not be aware of. The link anonymizer allows Internet users to link to websites without passing along information to the destination site. The site also offers the OpenID Anonymity service. This service is very similar to OpenID. However, users do not have to use a set profile, but can instead remain completely anonymous through the use of randomized user names created by Anonymity.com.

You tube is a website where you can find uploaded videos ranging anywhere from concerts, music videos, tv shows, movies, and public uploads.

About Josh Harris, crucial though little-known internet cultural pioneer. He created situations where people lived or partied or etc. completely in public - in front of webcams. It was sensationalistic and tabloid-like but also capitalized on the narrative possibilities of the net, with the multimediated websites creating narratives out of the banal and everyday and voyeuristic.

This is a online trade publication that I check regularly in my field of design - Jessica Center