Jason Boyd
@jasonaboyd.bsky.social
Assoc Prof, English, Toronto Metropolitan University (TMU); Director, TMU Centre for Digital Humanities, https://www.torontomu.ca/centre-digital-humanities/. Research interests include connections between literary studies and video games, eLit, queer DH
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Jason Boyd
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· Apr 29
Digital editing and publishing in the twenty-first century
| Scottish Universities Press
books.sup.ac.uk
Happy to see ‘Digital Editing and Publishing in the Twenty-First Century’ published by @scotunipress.bsky.social, is out!! Open access: available in print, PDF, EPUB. I have an essay in it: “The Ludic Edition: Playful Futures for Digital Scholarly Editing”! books.sup.ac.uk/sup/catalog/...
Just in time for Halloween, it’s the first episode of season 4 of the Playable Stories: Unarchived podcast on Silent Hill f! storiesinplay.com/2025/10/31/s...
Silent Hill f: Unarchived, Season 4, Episode 1
with Chelsea Russell (Host), Jeremy Andriano, and Alex Hurezeanu Broadcast date: 31 October 2025 Writer: Chelsea Russell Producer: Jeremy Andriano Silent Hill f, a psychologically dense entry in th…
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October 31, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Just in time for Halloween, it’s the first episode of season 4 of the Playable Stories: Unarchived podcast on Silent Hill f! storiesinplay.com/2025/10/31/s...
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As announced at #elo25, work toward the Electronic Literature Collection 5 (to be published in 2027) has begun and a call for submissions will soon be released.
We are asking for help translating and spreading the upcoming call.
Past ELCs: collection.eliterature.org
We are asking for help translating and spreading the upcoming call.
Past ELCs: collection.eliterature.org
July 13, 2025 at 2:43 PM
As announced at #elo25, work toward the Electronic Literature Collection 5 (to be published in 2027) has begun and a call for submissions will soon be released.
We are asking for help translating and spreading the upcoming call.
Past ELCs: collection.eliterature.org
We are asking for help translating and spreading the upcoming call.
Past ELCs: collection.eliterature.org
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If you missed my #elo25 talk earlier today, More History for the "Little Engine": Preserving the History and Works of Bitsy, here are my slides.
Summary: Bitsy will be 10 next year; I've been working on documenting its journey.
Slides: docs.google.com/presentation...
Summary: Bitsy will be 10 next year; I've been working on documenting its journey.
Slides: docs.google.com/presentation...
docs.google.com
July 11, 2025 at 6:04 PM
If you missed my #elo25 talk earlier today, More History for the "Little Engine": Preserving the History and Works of Bitsy, here are my slides.
Summary: Bitsy will be 10 next year; I've been working on documenting its journey.
Slides: docs.google.com/presentation...
Summary: Bitsy will be 10 next year; I've been working on documenting its journey.
Slides: docs.google.com/presentation...
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While at #ELO25 I’m launching a new online project. Here is “No Time to Discourse”—a speculative atlas of future climate disaster. Millions of (non-AI) procedurally generated flash fiction disaster stories. And they all hit a little too close to home these days. notime.now
July 12, 2025 at 3:09 PM
While at #ELO25 I’m launching a new online project. Here is “No Time to Discourse”—a speculative atlas of future climate disaster. Millions of (non-AI) procedurally generated flash fiction disaster stories. And they all hit a little too close to home these days. notime.now
@msterslev.bsky.social showing the BERTIFIER transformation of Tristan Tzara’s “How to write a Dada poem” #elo25:
July 12, 2025 at 3:04 PM
@msterslev.bsky.social showing the BERTIFIER transformation of Tristan Tzara’s “How to write a Dada poem” #elo25:
If you see @samplereality.bsky.social at #elo25, ask him for a bookmark for his latest project “No Time For Discourse” notime.now
July 12, 2025 at 2:39 PM
If you see @samplereality.bsky.social at #elo25, ask him for a bookmark for his latest project “No Time For Discourse” notime.now
@videlais.bsky.social is giving a fascinating talk about the j history of Bitsy and the works created using it. Dan has great videos about how to use Bitsy on YouTube! #elo25
July 11, 2025 at 4:12 PM
@videlais.bsky.social is giving a fascinating talk about the j history of Bitsy and the works created using it. Dan has great videos about how to use Bitsy on YouTube! #elo25
@scottrettberg.bsky.social is giving us an entertaining account of his early experiences with eLit, including coauthorship of the hypertext The Unknown #elo25
July 11, 2025 at 2:27 PM
@scottrettberg.bsky.social is giving us an entertaining account of his early experiences with eLit, including coauthorship of the hypertext The Unknown #elo25
I’m at ELO@25 Love Letters to the Past and Future conference at York University, with @caitlinfisher.bsky.social & @laitze.bsky.social opening the event! #elo25
July 11, 2025 at 1:53 PM
I’m at ELO@25 Love Letters to the Past and Future conference at York University, with @caitlinfisher.bsky.social & @laitze.bsky.social opening the event! #elo25
Happy to see ‘Digital Editing and Publishing in the Twenty-First Century’ published by @scotunipress.bsky.social, is out!! Open access: available in print, PDF, EPUB. I have an essay in it: “The Ludic Edition: Playful Futures for Digital Scholarly Editing”! books.sup.ac.uk/sup/catalog/...
Digital editing and publishing in the twenty-first century
| Scottish Universities Press
books.sup.ac.uk
April 29, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Happy to see ‘Digital Editing and Publishing in the Twenty-First Century’ published by @scotunipress.bsky.social, is out!! Open access: available in print, PDF, EPUB. I have an essay in it: “The Ludic Edition: Playful Futures for Digital Scholarly Editing”! books.sup.ac.uk/sup/catalog/...
I’ll be virtually presenting my paper “Adjusting the Virtual Dial: Video Game Adoptions and Adaptations of the Radio” today at session 14: Meaning through Mechanics (2pm EST) at the International Conference on Games and Narrative 2025 @uwaterloo.ca #icgan2025
March 4, 2025 at 3:51 PM
I’ll be virtually presenting my paper “Adjusting the Virtual Dial: Video Game Adoptions and Adaptations of the Radio” today at session 14: Meaning through Mechanics (2pm EST) at the International Conference on Games and Narrative 2025 @uwaterloo.ca #icgan2025
I’m attending (virtually) Emma Vossen’s keynote at the International Conference on Games & Narrative (ICGAN), “Narratology vs Ludology: The Debate that has Haunted Game Studies for Two Decades and Counting”. Emma is co-editor of the forthcoming Historiographies of Game Studies (Punctum Books)!
March 3, 2025 at 10:40 PM
I’m attending (virtually) Emma Vossen’s keynote at the International Conference on Games & Narrative (ICGAN), “Narratology vs Ludology: The Debate that has Haunted Game Studies for Two Decades and Counting”. Emma is co-editor of the forthcoming Historiographies of Game Studies (Punctum Books)!
Looking forward to chatting tomorrow with @paulbarrett1.bsky.social and Sarah Roger about their collection Future Horizons: Canadian Digital Humanities at @torontomet.bsky.social’s Centre for Digital Humanities! Details here: cdh.rula.info/newsletter/
Programs at the CDH |
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February 10, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Looking forward to chatting tomorrow with @paulbarrett1.bsky.social and Sarah Roger about their collection Future Horizons: Canadian Digital Humanities at @torontomet.bsky.social’s Centre for Digital Humanities! Details here: cdh.rula.info/newsletter/
I’m attending the Toronto launch of Output: Computer-Generated Text, 1963-2023 edited by Nick Montfort & Lillian-Yvonne Bertram, published by @mitpress.bsky.social
January 20, 2025 at 11:24 PM
I’m attending the Toronto launch of Output: Computer-Generated Text, 1963-2023 edited by Nick Montfort & Lillian-Yvonne Bertram, published by @mitpress.bsky.social
Tomorrow (January 14), the Centre for Digital Humanities will resume its programming with Reading Bytes, where we’ll continue our discussion of Alan Blackwell’s Moral Codes: Designing Alternatives to AI. Check out & join us for the other great events happening this month! cdh.rula.info/newsletter/
Programs at the CDH |
cdh.rula.info
January 13, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Tomorrow (January 14), the Centre for Digital Humanities will resume its programming with Reading Bytes, where we’ll continue our discussion of Alan Blackwell’s Moral Codes: Designing Alternatives to AI. Check out & join us for the other great events happening this month! cdh.rula.info/newsletter/
Asst Prof in Digital Humanities & Literature, Rowan U: jobs.rowan.edu/en-us/job/50...
Rowan HR - Details - Assistant Professor, Digital Humanities and Literature - Department of EnglishJob Postings | Human Resources | Rowan University
Rowan University is a Carnegie-classified national doctoral research institution dedicated to excellence in undergraduate and graduate education.
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December 9, 2024 at 4:16 PM
Asst Prof in Digital Humanities & Literature, Rowan U: jobs.rowan.edu/en-us/job/50...
It’s #DayofDH 2024, sponsored by dhcenternet.org! The Centre for Digital Humanities at Toronto Metropolitan U is hosting “Diary of a Digital Humanist,” led by Reg Beatty! More details here: cdh.rula.info/newsletter/
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December 2, 2024 at 10:52 AM
It’s #DayofDH 2024, sponsored by dhcenternet.org! The Centre for Digital Humanities at Toronto Metropolitan U is hosting “Diary of a Digital Humanist,” led by Reg Beatty! More details here: cdh.rula.info/newsletter/
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I made a starter pack for digital humanities people, projects, and centres based in Canada
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Canadian Digital Humanities
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November 28, 2024 at 2:41 PM
I made a starter pack for digital humanities people, projects, and centres based in Canada
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_Debates in the Digital Humanities 2023_ is now live and open-access on the Manifold DDH platform!!
dhdebates.gc.cuny.edu/projects/deb...
@laurenfklein.bsky.social & I offer deepest thanks to our contributors for their work and to @uminnpress.bsky.social for its support of open-access publishing!
dhdebates.gc.cuny.edu/projects/deb...
@laurenfklein.bsky.social & I offer deepest thanks to our contributors for their work and to @uminnpress.bsky.social for its support of open-access publishing!
Debates in the Digital Humanities 2023 | Debates in the Digital Humanities
Where do the digital humanities stand in 2023? *Debates in the Digital Humanities 2023* presents a state-of-the-field vision of digital humanities amid rising social, political, economic, and environm...
dhdebates.gc.cuny.edu
November 9, 2023 at 9:26 PM
_Debates in the Digital Humanities 2023_ is now live and open-access on the Manifold DDH platform!!
dhdebates.gc.cuny.edu/projects/deb...
@laurenfklein.bsky.social & I offer deepest thanks to our contributors for their work and to @uminnpress.bsky.social for its support of open-access publishing!
dhdebates.gc.cuny.edu/projects/deb...
@laurenfklein.bsky.social & I offer deepest thanks to our contributors for their work and to @uminnpress.bsky.social for its support of open-access publishing!
A new episode of the Playable Stories: Unarchived podcast has been released! In it, we talk about @kleientertainment.bsky.social’s Don’t Starve and the survival game genre. With @jerrrber.bsky.social, Kevin Ghouchandra & Chelsea Russell! storiesinplay.com/2024/11/24/u...
Unarchived (Season 3, Episode 3)
with Jason Boyd (Host), Jeremy Andriano, Kevin Ghouchandra, Chelsea Russell Broadcast Date: 24 November, 2024 Writer: Jason Boyd Producer; Jeremy Andriano In this episode, the panel discusses Don’t…
storiesinplay.com
November 24, 2024 at 6:11 PM
A new episode of the Playable Stories: Unarchived podcast has been released! In it, we talk about @kleientertainment.bsky.social’s Don’t Starve and the survival game genre. With @jerrrber.bsky.social, Kevin Ghouchandra & Chelsea Russell! storiesinplay.com/2024/11/24/u...
A new entry has been published on the Playable Stories Archive! Florence (by Mountains), entry written by Kevin Ghouchandra storiesinplay.com/2024/11/24/f...
Florence
Entry by Kevin Ghouchandra A. BASIC INFORMATION Creator: Mountains ( Ken Wong (Director) Kevin Penkin (Composer) Kamina Vincent Tony Coculuzzi Sam Crisp Creation Technology: Unity Publisher: Annapu…
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November 24, 2024 at 6:06 PM
A new entry has been published on the Playable Stories Archive! Florence (by Mountains), entry written by Kevin Ghouchandra storiesinplay.com/2024/11/24/f...
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🌈Thrilling news! QGCon 2025 will take place on September 26-28 in Montreal!
If you are a gamemaker, researcher, or activist at the intersection of queerness and games, we want you there!✨
🦄We value accessibility! QGCon 2025 is a COVID-cautious event.
www.qgcon.org/blog/announc...
If you are a gamemaker, researcher, or activist at the intersection of queerness and games, we want you there!✨
🦄We value accessibility! QGCon 2025 is a COVID-cautious event.
www.qgcon.org/blog/announc...
QGCon 2025: september 26-28, 2025 — QGCon
The Queerness and Games Conference is back! QGCon 2025 will be held on September 26-28 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada . If you are interested in presenting your work at QGCon, we w...
www.qgcon.org
November 14, 2024 at 7:31 PM
🌈Thrilling news! QGCon 2025 will take place on September 26-28 in Montreal!
If you are a gamemaker, researcher, or activist at the intersection of queerness and games, we want you there!✨
🦄We value accessibility! QGCon 2025 is a COVID-cautious event.
www.qgcon.org/blog/announc...
If you are a gamemaker, researcher, or activist at the intersection of queerness and games, we want you there!✨
🦄We value accessibility! QGCon 2025 is a COVID-cautious event.
www.qgcon.org/blog/announc...
Trying to find time this morning to start drafting the script on the November episode of the Playable Stories: Unarchived podcast on @kleientertainment.bsky.social’s Don’t Starve series storiesinplay.com/unarchived-p...
Unarchived Podcast
A Playable Stories Archive Podcast The Playable Stories Archive ( is a resource for teachers who are interested in learning about story-rich, critical, reflective, and persuasive digital games that…
storiesinplay.com
November 13, 2024 at 11:56 AM
Trying to find time this morning to start drafting the script on the November episode of the Playable Stories: Unarchived podcast on @kleientertainment.bsky.social’s Don’t Starve series storiesinplay.com/unarchived-p...