An international group of digital-fiction scholars proposes a platform of critical principles, seeking to build the foundation for a truly "digital" approach to literary study. Published in ebr's electropoetics thread.
Above all, we believe that digital media do not dispossess us of the interpretive reading practices that we have developed relative to print, but we are certain that they do imply a new mode of literary study and analysis.
Reading texts in digital environments still involves critical practices that have been developed in print scholarship: it still involves analyzing linguistic, structural, semiotic, intertextual and semantic elements. However, it also involves digital literacy.