Netprov: Networked Improvised Literature for the Classroom and Beyond

Wittig, Rob

doi:doi:10.3998/mpub.12387128

Netprov: Networked Improvised Literature for the Classroom and Beyond

Rob Wittig 2021

Open Access

Print copies available February 2022. Netprov is an emerging interdisciplinary digital art form that offers a literature-based “show” of insightful, healing satire that is as deep as the novels of the past. This accessible history of Netprov emerges out of an ongoing conversation about the changing roles and power dynamics of author and reader in an age of real-time interactivity. Rob Wittig describes a literary genre in which all the world is a platform and all participants are players. Beyond serving as a history of the genre, this book includes tips and examples to help those new to the genre teach and create netprovs.

ISBN(s)

978-1-943208-29-6 (open access)
978-1-943208-28-9 (paper)

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Table of Contents

Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Table Of Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1. The Impulse to Fiction
Example 1: The Ballad of Workstudy Seth, a Netprov
Chapter 2. Solo Netprovs
Example 2: All-Time High, a Netprov
Chapter 3. Playing Multiple Characters and Producing Larger Netprovs
Example 3: Fantasy Spoils: After the Quest, a Netprov
Chapter 4. Playing Well with Others
Example 4: I Work for the Web, a Netprov
Chapter 5. Satirical, Situational Netprovs
Example 5: Reality: Being @spencerpratt, a Netprov
Chapter 6. The Thingness of Language
Example 6: #1WkNoTech, a Netprov
Chapter 7. Organizing and Launching Open-Ended Netprovs
Example 7: The LA Flood Project, a Netprov
Chapter 8. Netprovs with a Story Line
Example 8: Destination Wedding 2070, a Netprov
Chapter 9. Games, Role-Play, and Netprovs in the Real World
Example 9: Thermophiles in Love, a Netprov
Chapter 10. Futures of Netprov
Notes
Appendixes

Netprov: Networked Improvised Literature for the Classroom and Beyond

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