new textualities

Pedro Barbosa recalls in this interview his memories of the first studies and works of electronic literature back in the 1970s when he was a student at the University of Porto. Starting from considerations about his collaborative works he makes a comparison between printed literature tradition and the age of new media focusing on the paradigmatic change of this very transitional period with live in and the differences of the creative work. Furthermore he makes an interesting statement on regard of the aesthetics of new media by comparing works of electronic literature with the oral tradition. In the end he mentions some of the milestones of electronic literature that he considers important.

There are not few questions and crucial problems that the theoretical and comparative reflection should face trying to keep certain relevance in the areas of humanities and social sciences in the globalization era: What type of social subject is conforming this new communicative context? What new forms of literary textualities are the digital media spaces conceiving?