[Renewals: Are You Transliterate]

For the Renewals conference, Professor Sue Thomas, author Kate Pullinger, and I, presented our panel on transliteracy. Sue began by setting the scene, explaining transliteracy and how the research into transliteracy is very much in process by the PaRT group (www.transliteracy.com). Kate spoke about her role as author and how the notion of "authorship" changes with the platform used. Kate shared with us her experience of (trying to) guide A Million Penguines (the wiki novel experiment) and the diffuse authorship that engendered and then she contrasted that with creating Inanimate Alice with Chris Joseph. I concluded the session with a reading of Inanimate Alice episode 3 and talked about how the different modes interacted with the narrative and how sometimes the modes played against one another (and thank goodness Kate didn't begin shaking her head in disagreement!).

Sadly, but naturally, the technology wasn't as complicit as we would have hoped and thus the audience missed some great videos.