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Tegan Pyke

Position

Phd candidate, Research Fellow, Center for Digital Narrative

Affiliation

Department of Linguistic, Literary and Aesthetic Studies

E-mail: tegan.pyke@uib.no
Visitor address: Harald Hårfagres gate 1
5007 Bergen
Postal address: P.O. Box 7805

NO-5020 Bergen

Norway

Tegan Pyke

Position

Phd candidate, Research Fellow, Center for Digital Narrative

Affiliation

Department of Linguistic, Literary and Aesthetic Studies

Research groups

Short info

I explore the ways in which Web-first creative practice is enacted within and affected by platform capitalism, with a particular focus on literary production and storytelling.

Research

Tegan (she/her) is a PhD Research Fellow in digital culture, associated with the Center for Digital Narrative, at the Department of Linguistic, Literary and Aesthetic Studies. Her research is focused on the field of electronic literature, post-digitality, and the ways the World Wide Web has affected folk storytelling practices. She places a particular emphasis on identifying born-digital, online-first narrative forms and documenting the practices of collaborative writing communities.

Research produced during her fellowship period so far has focused on electronic literature's status as an essentially contested concept and the ways in which mascot horror—a popular web-first video game genre, exemplified by series such as Five Nights at Freddy’s, Poppy Playtime, and Garten of Banban—acts as a cultural reflection of contemporary, post-capitalist, platformised creator economies.

Her current research investigates the unique storytelling practices of Sims 2 writing communities from the mid to late 2000s and aims to document the ways a primarily female player base influenced the Let’s Play entertainment format.

She is also part of the editorial team for electronic book review, one of the Web's oldest open access journals.

Teaching

DIKULT104: Computing Technology: History, Theory and Practice

DIKULT105: Web Design 1

DIKULT203: Electronic Literature

DIKULT205: Web Design 2.0

Publications

Conference lecture