The Challenges of Born-Digital Fiction

The Challenges of Born-Digital Fiction: Editions, Emulations, and Translations examines activities, approaches, and strategies underlying the preservation of born-digital literature. Drawing upon platform and code studies, archival theory, translation studies, and media theory, it addresses the growing concern among digital preservationists about how best to maintain and extend the accessibility of works created for hardware and with software no longer supported by contemporary computing systems and which often include contextualizing packaging and physical media that extend beyond what is traditionally recognized as 'the work.' In sum, the Element argues that when the emulation and migration of born-digital media translate the work's code, it also impacts the edition and version outputted in the process and potentially our experience with the work.