{"id":1018,"date":"2005-09-14T19:02:39","date_gmt":"2005-09-14T23:02:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theoreti.ca\/?p=1018"},"modified":"2005-09-14T19:02:39","modified_gmt":"2005-09-14T23:02:39","slug":"what-is-an-electronic-text","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=1018","title":{"rendered":"What is an electronic text?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I came across a thoughtful blog entry responding to somethng I wrote with Ian Lancashire about <a title=\"TAPoR \/ News\" href=\"http:\/\/tapor.humanities.mcmaster.ca\/html\/p_desc_what_is.html\">electronic texts and text analysis<\/a> in <a title=\"Writer Response Theory \u00aa Blog Archive \u00aa Forms of Electronic Texts\" href=\"http:\/\/wrt.ucr.edu\/wordpress\/2005\/06\/14\/forms-of-electronic-texts\/\">WRT: Writer Response Theory \u00aa Forms of Electronic Texts<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>The author, Christy Dena, points out the focus on material characteristics (that an e-text is an electronic version of a written work etc.) and inconsistencies. To be honest I wasn&#8217;t trying to come up with a typology with a &#8220;continuity of variable.&#8221; I was trying to describe the variety of things we call e-texts. Time for a better definition and asking whether we want to use &#8220;electronic text&#8221; for anything that can be read and has\/had an electronic form.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I came across a thoughtful blog entry responding to somethng I wrote with Ian Lancashire about electronic texts and text analysis in WRT: Writer Response Theory \u00aa Forms of Electronic Texts. The author, Christy Dena, points out the focus on material characteristics (that an e-text is an electronic version of a written work etc.) and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=1018\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">What is an electronic text?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-text-analysis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1018","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1018"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1018\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}