Response to the Presentation of Fiction Group

       Last week, our group began to prepare for our final presentation about how our fiction group members devoted ourselves into the Lying Cotton Review. Our group members had a meeting to discuss about which specific part each of us was responsible for the presentation. Zoe and Debbie are the presenters; Susan and Jo are responsible for writing the speech; I am a designer to create the     infographic and Prezi slides. 

      For creating the info graphic, I  collected the statistics of total submissions we had read and how many submissions each of us had read. From total 50 submissions, our group finally chose 6 submissions to publish, and each of them was edited by three members in average. Besides editing the submissions , we did other jobs including email editing, email sending, giving feedbacks, writing and submitting our own work. 

     Furthermore, it was a kind of difficult process for me to use Prezi because I has not used it for many times, thus I spent a lot of times on being familiar with it. I put selfies of all group members and the images of our jobs. According to other members' content, I modified it many times and also sent them to revise it. Following are two images that show my work.

Response to the Electronic Literature

       In todays’ class, we have the discussion about the electronic literature. Our group think that it’s not true that electronic literature is just hypertext essays. Yes, in some way, it is regarded as the hypertext essays. We click some places which lead us to other places. For example, some stories have many links to the explanation of difficult words and terminology to make readers understand the content. We can always click the authors’ names to find their information. However, some literature works are not equal to the hypertext essay. Some stories are collected in the stand-alone website, and does not have any hypertext. There are many new forms of electronic literature appearing rather than hypertext essays. For instance, many websites present the stories or poetries in Flash or other platforms. Some authors attempts to protect their ownership so there is no link in their works. The electronic literature now develops a lot. It always has interactive and collaborative part that allow the audience to comment on the work. 

       There is no denying that the electronic literature has some differences from the print works. Electronic literature has many visible advantages. It is more searchable, we could look over it through many devices including computers, phones or any tablets. Furthermore, online-reading have the function of memory, so we can continue reading the content where we stop last time. Online-reading also contributes to the environmental protection. 

       By contrast, the electronic literature has detriments. It is harmful to people’s health. It causes the risks of ownership, and sometimes there are some technology problems.