Digital Poetry

This book examines contemporary forms of digital poetry in emerging technologies such as drones, machine learning, Instagram, virtual reality and mobile devices. Theoretical frameworks that engage with posthumanism, multimodality, hermeneutics and eco-writing are used to examine the changing shape of the literary artefact in the second age of machines. The book contextualises the necessity of a multidisciplinary approach for a complex artefact and gives a broad overview of the field and history of digital poetry as a subset of the genre of electronic literature. Naji examines Instapoetry and the literary algorithm, haptic hermeneutics and poetry apps. The discussion also engages with eco-writing and drone poetry, poetic mirror worlds, and mixed reality poetry, concluding with an examination of the future of poetics and literary expression in the second age of machines.

Jeneen Naji is Digital Media Faculty and Practice Coordinator in the Department of Media Studies in Maynooth University, Ireland. Dr. Naji researches in the area of digital culture, specifically exploring the impact of the digital apparatus on poetic expression. She is a Fulbright TechImpact Scholar and a convener and founding member of the Maynooth University Digital Arts & Humanities Research Cluster.