Postdigital Storytelling

Spencer Jordan is Assistant Professor of Creative Writing in the School of English at the University of Nottingham, UK. He is both a published novelist and historian, with a background in the digital humanities. He has been involved in a number of digital projects exploring immersive and locationbased storytelling. Particular areas of interest include: digital/hypertext and immersive fiction, literary geography and digital heritage.

• 1 Introduction Part 1: Pasts and Presents: Sheds, Labyrinths and String Figures 2 Creativity Today: the Case for Storytelling 3 Postdigital Storytelling 4 Hypertextual Adventures 5 Postdigital Hypertextuality Part 2: Into Infinity: Towards a Postdigital Poetics 6 Spatiality and Text: Locative Mobile Storytelling 7 Collaborative Tales Part 3: Coda 8 How Soon is Now?

"When I finished Postdigital Storytelling I immediately wanted to read it again - not simply to recall it, but to immerse myself in it again. The human-centeredness of this book makes today's digital ubiquitousness a positive turn away from alienation and toward cognitive and emotional empathy. Fascinating, contextually informed, and based as much in writing practice as it is in the results of that practice, Postdigital Storytelling Poetics, Praxis, Research is a reader's book (because it fascinates) and a writer's book (because it encourages and charges the imagination)." Graeme Harper, Professor and Dean of the Honors College, Oakland University, U.S.A.