What is E-Literature?
E-Literature is a form of literature that is specifically designed to be viewed/interacted with on an electronic media device such as a tablet, smartphone, or computer. These works are not to be confused with E-books, being that e-books are not specifically made with the intent of being electronic media. E-books are digitized versions of print, and E-literature is "born digital". E-literature can only exist in the particular media for which it was developed.
When I was going through the different varieties of e-literature I came across a work by Maria Mencia called Birds Singing Other Birds Songs. The reason why I chose this particular piece was because I wanted to illustrate just how broad the concept of e-literature can truly be. The author of this piece of literature wanted to explore the idea of kinetic typography, or the animation of images and sound. The piece has 12 different animations that you can play simultaneously, or change at will. Each animation is a bird song, and as it sounds a written transcription of the song is shown in the shape of the bird.
This just shows the wide variety of what can be considered E-literature, and is a perfect example of something that could not exist had it existed in traditional analog print media.
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