Artist/designer Aya Karpinska has developed an iPhone application that is actually a suite of children's stories. The application utilizes the multi-touch capability of iPhone and is a great example of how interactive technologies on the mobile devices would affect the authorship and readership alike.The title of the application is Shadows Never Sleep. It will be available for download in June. In the mean time, you may check out its browser based demo and video here:
http://www.technekai.com/shadow/
The genre of electronic literature received a huge boost with the popularization of hypertext. It seems the new wave of networked communication devices such as Kindle and iPhone may bring forth even more innovations due to their connectivity, intimacy, adjacency and immediacy. For people who would like to learn more about electronic writing, seek out N. Katherine Hayles' book:
Electronic Literature: New Horizons for the Literary
Fang-Yu Lin
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