Ambient Stories in Practice and Research

Amy Spencer was a post-doctoral research fellow in Ambient Literature at the University of the West of England, UK and is now post-doctoral research assistant at Bath Spa University, UK. She has a PhD from the Centre for Cultural Studies at Goldsmiths College where her thesis, Author, Reader, Text: Collaboration and the Networked Book, focused on collaborative authorship in digital literature. She also has an MA in English from King’s College London. Amy is a writer of both fiction and non-fiction and is the author of DIY: The Rise of Lo-Fi Culture.

Introduction: Ambient Stories: Embodied, authored and unpredictable, Amy Spencer
1. Retrospect on the new epigraphy: Walking, reading and marking the city, Malcolm McCullough
2. Ambient writing in a terrain of threatened subjectivity: Unfolding codes, tainted models and holey spaces, Phil Smith
3. Ambient activism: Place, people and process, Donna Hancox
4. Dear Reader, can I borrow your body to tell a story?: On ambient interactional metalepsis, sylleptic readers and palimpsestuous embedded reading experiences of ambient stories, Agnieszka Przybyszewska
5. At the edges: A question of audience invisibility, disappearance and failure, Joanne ‘Bob’ Whalley and Lee Miller
6. Here. Now. Ours: Interrogating the use of situated augmented reality, Ben Gwalchmai
7. On writing instability: How ambient literature reconfigures the reader/ writer relationship in situated storytelling , Tom Abba
8. Persephone’s Footsteps: Storymaking on foot, Claire Dean
9. Waveform: Writing across oceans, air and algorithms, Richard A Carter
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