Author: Scott Rettberg

Scott Rettberg is Assistant Professor of New Media Studies in the Literature Program at Richard Stockton College of New Jersey. Rettberg is the cofounder and served as the first executive director of the Electronic Literature Organization from 1999?2001. Rettberg is coauthor of The Unknown, cowinner of the 1998 trAce/Alt-X Hypertext Competition.

Essays in EBR by Scott Rettberg

2002-01-10

The Pleasure (and Pain) of Link Poetics

Entering the cyberdebates, Scott Rettberg moves beyond technique and proposes a more generative approach to hypertext, in which an author's intention and poetic purpose have a role.

Scott Rettberg
2003-03-28

New Media Studies

Scott Rettberg introduces 'New Media Studies': a cluster of reviews, and a term (similar in its emergence to the term 'Postmodernism').

Scott Rettberg
2003-03-20

Evangelizing the Everyday Web

Scott Rettberg appreciates Weinberg's small pieces more than his 'unified theory,' while viewing the Internet not as an economic panacea but a communication medium woven into the fabric of contemporary culture.

Scott Rettberg
2005-11-05

First Person, Games, and the Place of Electronic Literature

Scott Rettberg, responding to "The Pixel/The Line" (section 4 of First Person) wonders whether electronic writing isn't evolving into a subspecies of electronic art, one that uses words as material, 'just as sculptors use clay.'

Scott Rettberg