What is E-Lit?

 

After reading Chapter One of Electronic Literature and Electronic Literature: What is it? I came to a better understanding about what is E-Lit. I had a hard time grasping what that was, and these two readings really helped me follow what was E-Lit and what was E-books. Which were discussed in Electronic Literature and stated the differences. E-Lit is born digital that is interactive for telling stories while E-books are just versions of a printed books transferred into a computer or software. Furthermore, the concept of genre was a discussion that the board of ELO had to decide what kind of boundaries they wanted to keep E-Lit in. They found the term genre to be "charmingly old-fashioned" due to the fact that digital media is such a big umbrella. Electronic Literature has so many aspects that it can hop from one genre to another. E-Lit is a more engaging way of the digital writing genre, it is interactive and lets more than one person control where the story goes. These works prepares a message on how users are answering or interacting with software, causing to have a different outcome for each person.

I choose Rio created by Jim Andrews for my reference. It is an interactive site that takes poetry and combines  it into an audio. You can press on a letter and music pops up, adding more letters will add more audio and it will blend together. I found it interesting because it is a cool way to include words and music. I think that music goes go hand and hand with reading or writing. It creates the experience for poetry more engaging and creative.