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@jasonaboyd.bsky.social

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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Job posting: Digital Experience Librarian, Toronto Metropolitan University. Deadline December 18 2025 hr.cf.torontomu.ca/ams/faculty/...

20.11.2025 15:53 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Job posting: Assistant Professor, tenure track, English (Digital Narratives), Cape Breton University, Nova Scotia, Canada. Deadline January 19, 2026 jobs.dayforcehcm.com/en-US/cbu/CA...

20.11.2025 13:24 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Silent Hill f: Unarchived, Season 4, Episode 1 with Chelsea Russell (Host), Jeremy Andriano, and Alex Hurezeanu Broadcast date: 31 October 2025 Writer: Chelsea Russell Producer: Jeremy Andriano Silent Hill f, a psychologically dense entry in thโ€ฆ

Just in time for Halloween, itโ€™s the first episode of season 4 of the Playable Stories: Unarchived podcast on Silent Hill f! storiesinplay.com/2025/10/31/s...

31.10.2025 21:03 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Call for volunteer consultants to help with translating the upcoming call-for-submissions and spreading call to different communities.

Call for volunteer consultants to help with translating the upcoming call-for-submissions and spreading call to different communities.

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

13.07.2025 14:43 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 7    ๐Ÿ” 5    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

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...

11.07.2025 18:04 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 7    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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.

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.

While at #ELO25 Iโ€™m launching a new online project. Here is โ€œNo Time to Discourseโ€โ€”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

12.07.2025 15:09 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 23    ๐Ÿ” 12    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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@msterslev.bsky.social showing the BERTIFIER transformation of Tristan Tzaraโ€™s โ€œHow to write a Dada poemโ€ #elo25:

12.07.2025 15:04 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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If you see @samplereality.bsky.social at #elo25, ask him for a bookmark for his latest project โ€œNo Time For Discourseโ€ notime.now

12.07.2025 14:39 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Jose Diasโ€™s exploration of the expressiveness of the hyperlink in Twine is accompanied by real-time illustration! #elo25

11.07.2025 18:29 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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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

11.07.2025 16:12 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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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

11.07.2025 14:27 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Iโ€™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

11.07.2025 13:53 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Digital editing and publishing in the twenty-first century | Scottish Universities Press

Happy to see โ€˜Digital Editing and Publishing in the Twenty-First Centuryโ€™ published by @scotunipress.bsky.social, is out!! Open access: available in print, PDF, EPUB. I have an essay in it: โ€œThe Ludic Edition: Playful Futures for Digital Scholarly Editingโ€! books.sup.ac.uk/sup/catalog/...

29.04.2025 18:00 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 7    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Yes! Emma Vossen is @emmavphd.bsky.social ๐Ÿ™‚

06.03.2025 14:27 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Historiographies of Game Studies: What It Has Been, What It Could Be โ€“ punctum books

Trying again: punctumbooks.com/titles/histo...

05.03.2025 21:41 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Hosted by the @thegamesinstitute.bsky.social !

04.03.2025 15:52 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Iโ€™ll be virtually presenting my paper โ€œAdjusting the Virtual Dial: Video Game Adoptions and Adaptations of the Radioโ€ today at session 14: Meaning through Mechanics (2pm EST) at the International Conference on Games and Narrative 2025 @uwaterloo.ca #icgan2025

04.03.2025 15:51 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 7    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I donโ€™t think so, but Emmaโ€™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...

04.03.2025 15:43 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Iโ€™m attending (virtually) Emma Vossenโ€™s keynote at the International Conference on Games & Narrative (ICGAN), โ€œNarratology vs Ludology: The Debate that has Haunted Game Studies for Two Decades and Countingโ€. Emma is co-editor of the forthcoming Historiographies of Game Studies (Punctum Books)!

03.03.2025 22:40 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 8    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Programs at the CDH |

Looking forward to chatting tomorrow with @paulbarrett1.bsky.social and Sarah Roger about their collection Future Horizons: Canadian Digital Humanities at @torontomet.bsky.socialโ€™s Centre for Digital Humanities! Details here: cdh.rula.info/newsletter/

10.02.2025 19:32 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Iโ€™m attending the Toronto launch of Output: Computer-Generated Text, 1963-2023 edited by Nick Montfort & Lillian-Yvonne Bertram, published by @mitpress.bsky.social

20.01.2025 23:24 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Programs at the CDH |

Tomorrow (January 14), the Centre for Digital Humanities will resume its programming with Reading Bytes, where weโ€™ll continue our discussion of Alan Blackwellโ€™s Moral Codes: Designing Alternatives to AI. Check out & join us for the other great events happening this month! cdh.rula.info/newsletter/

13.01.2025 19:05 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Hooray!!!

18.12.2024 15:19 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Rowan HR - Details - Assistant Professor, Digital Humanities and Literature - Department of EnglishJob Postings | Human Resources | Rowan University Rowan University is a Carnegie-classified national doctoral research institution dedicated to excellence in undergraduate and graduate education.

Asst Prof in Digital Humanities & Literature, Rowan U: jobs.rowan.edu/en-us/job/50...

09.12.2024 16:16 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Programs at the CDH |

Itโ€™s #DayofDH 2024, sponsored by dhcenternet.org! The Centre for Digital Humanities at Toronto Metropolitan U is hosting โ€œDiary of a Digital Humanist,โ€ led by Reg Beatty! More details here: cdh.rula.info/newsletter/

02.12.2024 10:52 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Canadian Digital Humanities Join the conversation

I made a starter pack for digital humanities people, projects, and centres based in Canada
go.bsky.app/ScSDoUB

reply to be added!

28.11.2024 14:41 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 25    ๐Ÿ” 7    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 14    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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Debates in the Digital Humanities 2023 | Debates in the Digital Humanities Where do the digital humanities stand in 2023? *Debates in the Digital Humanities 2023* presents a state-of-the-field vision of digital humanities amid rising social, political, economic, and environm...

_Debates in the Digital Humanities 2023_ is now live and open-access on the Manifold DDH platform!!

dhdebates.gc.cuny.edu/projects/deb...

@laurenfklein.bsky.social & I offer deepest thanks to our contributors for their work and to @uminnpress.bsky.social for its support of open-access publishing!

09.11.2023 21:26 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 75    ๐Ÿ” 53    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 6
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Unarchived (Season 3, Episode 3) with Jason Boyd (Host), Jeremy Andriano, Kevin Ghouchandra, Chelsea Russell Broadcast Date: 24 November, 2024 Writer: Jason Boyd Producer; Jeremy Andriano In this episode, the panel discusses Donโ€™tโ€ฆ

A new episode of the Playable Stories: Unarchived podcast has been released! In it, we talk about @kleientertainment.bsky.socialโ€™s Donโ€™t Starve and the survival game genre. With @jerrrber.bsky.social, Kevin Ghouchandra & Chelsea Russell! storiesinplay.com/2024/11/24/u...

24.11.2024 18:11 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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Florence Entry by Kevin Ghouchandra A. BASIC INFORMATION Creator: Mountains ( Ken Wong (Director) Kevin Penkin (Composer) Kamina Vincent Tony Coculuzzi Sam Crisp Creation Technology: Unity Publisher: Annapuโ€ฆ

A new entry has been published on the Playable Stories Archive! Florence (by Mountains), entry written by Kevin Ghouchandra storiesinplay.com/2024/11/24/f...

24.11.2024 18:06 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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