literatureits

Literatureits is an interdisciplinary term used to describe the study and practice at the intersection of literature, information technology systems, and digital culture. It encompasses how digital platforms, computational methods, and electronic media influence literary creation, dissemination, reception, and analysis, as well as how literary questions can inform the design and use of information technologies.

Etymology and usage vary. The term blends literature with information technology studies, and it is not universally standardized. In some contexts it functions as an umbrella for projects that unite literary scholarship with computer science, library science, or digital humanities, while in others it is used more narrowly to emphasize technology-driven approaches within literary studies.

Scope and methods. Literatureits covers electronic literature, digital publishing, online reading practices, and the preservation of digital works. Methodologically, it draws on textual analysis using software, corpus linguistics, stylometry, network visualization, and digital editing. It also engages with metadata standards, digital archiving, and critical code studies to examine how code, platforms, and interfaces shape literary experience.

History and reception. The term emerged in parallel with the digital humanities and electronic literature movements from the late 20th century onward. Today, literatureits is discussed in some scholarly circles as a way to foreground the role of information technologies in literary research, while others view it as overlapping with or redundant to broader digital humanities or electronic literature disciplines.

See also. Digital humanities; electronic literature; computational linguistics; information science.