Issue Details: First known date: 2021... 2021 Linking Digital Wayfaring and Creative Writing: True Fictions from Ethnographic Fieldwork
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'In this article, I explore how creative writing links to mobile media ethnographic practices. Through my digital ethnographies, I have found empirical evidence that socialising, art-making, and wayfaring can and do occur simultaneously in online and offline worlds. The more than textual, more than representational, material and corporeal experiences, and everyday processes are important to how we imagine and theorise art-making practices with mobile media. In this article, I pose the question: How can fiction techniques be used as a method to expose links between digital wayfaring and the creative writing practices? I explore this question through three fictionalised vignettes based on material from my ethnographies. These are grounded in a discussion of non-representational theory as a theoretical perspective to situate the everyday creative practices that go into mobile media art projects involving creative writing.' (Publication abstract)

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    y separately published work icon New Writing vol. 18 no. 2 2021 21790927 2021 periodical issue

    'I am not asking if it is difficult. It can be. What I am asking is if it is a doctorate in the field of rocket science. Clearly, it is not. In fact, it should not be a doctorate in any other field than creative writing. Yet, over and over again, we find this simple fact misunderstood or misrepresented or misinterpreted. I admit I used to blame colleagues in English and Literary Studies for attempting to bend creative writing study (the methods, philosophies behind the degree, outcomes) to their disciplinary will. But I was wrong – English Literature Departments are not to blame, Literary Studies is not the culprit here. Nor is Cultural Studies, Film and Media Studies, Theatre Studies, Writing Studies, Composition Studies, or Biomedical Studies or Legal Studies, for that matter. If the Doctorate in Creative Writing might as well be a Doctorate in Rocket Science we have no one to blame but ourselves.' (Editorial introduction)

    2021
    pg. 239-250
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