Per una storia della letteratura elettronica italiana

Poems written in programming languages, interactive multimedia works, stories that develop between virtual and physical reality. These are just some of the genres attributable to “electronic literature”, an intersectoral phenomenon characterized by the creative use of the properties of digital media. In this book, the first to attempt a historical reconstruction of Italian electronic literature, Roberta Iadevaia takes us on a journey that starts from the mainframes of the 1950s, passes through the home and personal computers of the 1980s, dives into the network of the 1990s and follows its developments up to the present day, characterized by increasingly “intelligent” and ubiquitous devices. Accompanying us on this path - one of the many possible paths in a world still largely to be explored - there is the belief that electronic literature, as constitutively hybrid, can be one of the most fertile and necessary phenomenon of our time.