Jason Boyd

Submissions for this year's fully online @eliterature.bsky.social conference are open through February 28th! We've added more information on the logistics, registration (free with ELO membership!), AI, membership waivers for financial needs, and awards nominations: stars.library.ucf.edu/elo2026/

This arrived in the mail today: @edmondchang.bsky.social & Timothy J. Welsh’s _Video, Literature, and Close Playing_! Published by Routledge.

Outer Wilds (Mobius Digital): Unarchived, Season 4, Episode 2 with Jeremy Andriano (Host) and Jason Boyd Broadcast date: 12 December 2025 Writer: Jeremy Andriano Producer: Jeremy Andriano Outer Wilds by Mobius Digital is an exploration-based adventure game se…

Season 4, Episode 2 of the Playable Stories Archive, on Outer Wilds, is now available! storiesinplay.com/2025/12/05/o...

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

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...

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 th…

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

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

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...

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 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

@msterslev.bsky.social showing the BERTIFIER transformation of Tristan Tzara’s “How to write a Dada poem” #elo25:

If you see @samplereality.bsky.social at #elo25, ask him for a bookmark for his latest project “No Time For Discourse” notime.now

Jose Dias’s exploration of the expressiveness of the hyperlink in Twine is accompanied by real-time illustration! #elo25

@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

@scottrettberg.bsky.social is giving us an entertaining account of his early experiences with eLit, including coauthorship of the hypertext The Unknown #elo25

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

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/...

Yes! Emma Vossen is @emmavphd.bsky.social 🙂

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

Hosted by the @thegamesinstitute.bsky.social !

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

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...

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)!

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/

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

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/

Hooray!!!

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

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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I made a starter pack for digital humanities people, projects, and centres based in Canada
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