Philip Klobucar
Andrew Klobucar
Associate Professor, Humanities & Social Sciences
332 Cullimore Hall
About Me
Andrew Klobucar, Associate Professor of English at New Jersey Institute of Technology in Newark, is a literary theorist and teacher, specializing in internet research, electronic writing/poetics, semantic technologies and Web 3.0.
Education
Ph.D.; University of British Columbia; Postwar American Poetry; 1999
M.S.; Edinburgh University; Literary Theory; 1992
B.A.; University of Toronto; English; 1991
M.S.; Edinburgh University; Literary Theory; 1992
B.A.; University of Toronto; English; 1991
Website
Office Hours
T/Th 12:30-1:30
Teaching Interests
Literary Theory, Media Studies, Communication Theory, Social Media Practices, Composition, Digital and Programmable Literature, Technology and Education, History of Technology,
Past Courses
COM 303: VIDEO NARATIVE
COM 303: VIDEO NARRATIVE
COM 321: ST: TECHNOLOGY & TACTICS OF SO
COM 321: TECHNOLOGY & TACTICS OF SO
COM 321: TECHNOLOGY & TACTICS OF SOUND
COM 325: SPECIAL TOPICS IN COMMUNICATION
COM 325: ST: CLICK AND READ: AN INTRODUCTION TO INTERACTIVE FICTION
COM 325: ST: TECHNIQUES AND TACTICS OF SOUND DESIGN
COM 325: ST: TECHNIQUES AND TACTICS OF SOUND DESIGN - HONORS
COM 325: ST: THE TECHNOLOGY AND TACTICS OF SOUND: A DIGITAL AUDIO WORKSHOP
COM 325: ST:TECHNIQUES AND TACTICS OF SOUND DESIGN
COM 355: CYBERTEXT
COM 390: ELECTRONIC WRITING WORKSHOP
ENG 302: COMMUNICATION THEORY
ENG 333: CYBERTEXT
ENG 354: COMPOSING DOCUMENTS FOR THE WEB
HSS 403: LIT SEM: ANALYZING SOCIAL NETWORKS
HSS 403: LIT SEM: ELECTRONIC LITERATURE
HUM 101: WRITING,SPEAKING, THINKING I
HUM 325: ST:VIDEO NARRATIVE
PTC 628: ANALYZING SOCIAL NETWORKS
PTC 629: THEORY & PRAC OF SOC MEDIA
PTC 691: EPORTFOLIO CAPSTONE SEMINAR
PTC 698: ST: SOCIAL MEDIA - THEORY & PRA
COM 303: VIDEO NARRATIVE
COM 321: ST: TECHNOLOGY & TACTICS OF SO
COM 321: TECHNOLOGY & TACTICS OF SO
COM 321: TECHNOLOGY & TACTICS OF SOUND
COM 325: SPECIAL TOPICS IN COMMUNICATION
COM 325: ST: CLICK AND READ: AN INTRODUCTION TO INTERACTIVE FICTION
COM 325: ST: TECHNIQUES AND TACTICS OF SOUND DESIGN
COM 325: ST: TECHNIQUES AND TACTICS OF SOUND DESIGN - HONORS
COM 325: ST: THE TECHNOLOGY AND TACTICS OF SOUND: A DIGITAL AUDIO WORKSHOP
COM 325: ST:TECHNIQUES AND TACTICS OF SOUND DESIGN
COM 355: CYBERTEXT
COM 390: ELECTRONIC WRITING WORKSHOP
ENG 302: COMMUNICATION THEORY
ENG 333: CYBERTEXT
ENG 354: COMPOSING DOCUMENTS FOR THE WEB
HSS 403: LIT SEM: ANALYZING SOCIAL NETWORKS
HSS 403: LIT SEM: ELECTRONIC LITERATURE
HUM 101: WRITING,SPEAKING, THINKING I
HUM 325: ST:VIDEO NARRATIVE
PTC 628: ANALYZING SOCIAL NETWORKS
PTC 629: THEORY & PRAC OF SOC MEDIA
PTC 691: EPORTFOLIO CAPSTONE SEMINAR
PTC 698: ST: SOCIAL MEDIA - THEORY & PRA
Research Interests
Cultural Studies, Literary Theory, Aesthetics, Composition, Digital, Programmable Literature, Technology and Education, History of Technology, Modern/Contemporary British and American literature.
In Progress
End Matter: Interactive Narrative Play and Digital Storytelling
New modes of narrative construction developed through advanced social media and gaming platforms this past decade have brought about a transformative understanding of the very nature of storytelling. Aside from the multimodality now common to all digital narrative forms, storylines can be composed synchronously in time often at the precise point of reader or player access. These platforms effectively resituate works of fiction as performative, interactive environments for open composition. To understand better the many complex innovations in writing and reading these new formats have generated, the book focuses specifically on how digital reading practices have formally adapted to online social networking technologies, aligning storytelling with several core attributes associated with player behaviour and conflict negotiation, including competition, aggregation, assemblage, and stream-based modes of data processing.
Keywords: interactive narratives, narratology, networks, digital media, competition, aggregation, assemblage, perception
New modes of narrative construction developed through advanced social media and gaming platforms this past decade have brought about a transformative understanding of the very nature of storytelling. Aside from the multimodality now common to all digital narrative forms, storylines can be composed synchronously in time often at the precise point of reader or player access. These platforms effectively resituate works of fiction as performative, interactive environments for open composition. To understand better the many complex innovations in writing and reading these new formats have generated, the book focuses specifically on how digital reading practices have formally adapted to online social networking technologies, aligning storytelling with several core attributes associated with player behaviour and conflict negotiation, including competition, aggregation, assemblage, and stream-based modes of data processing.
Keywords: interactive narratives, narratology, networks, digital media, competition, aggregation, assemblage, perception
Creative Writing
Glossary of Terms --U-- Urpflanze, n. Ger./ûp-flänz)
The Capilano Review (TCR), October (4th Quarter/Autumn) 2022
The Capilano Review (TCR), October (4th Quarter/Autumn) 2022
Journal Article
Klobucar, Philip (2021). Vagueness Machines: Computational Indeterminacy in the work of Jen Bervin and Nick Montfort. Interferences littéraires/Literaire interferenties: Multilingual e-Journal for Literary Studies,, 25(2021),
Klobucar, Philip (2017). Poetry’s Execution: Contemporary Writings on the Poetics of Computation.. Humanities, 6(2), Web.
Elliot, Norbert, & Deess, Perry, & Klobucar, Philip, & Collins, Regina, & Sharla, Sava (2016). ePortfolios: Foundational Measurement Issues. Journal of Writing Assessment, 9(2), Web.
Klobucar, Andrew, & Coppola, Nancy, & Elliot, Norbert (2016). Programmatic Research in Technical Communication: An Afterword for Writing Program Assessment. Programmatic Perspectives, 8(2),
Funkhouser, Christopher, & Klobucar, Philip (2013). “Condors’ Polyphony and Jawed Water-lines Catapulted Out: Gnoetry and its Place in Text Processing’s History” . Electronic Book Review, 2013,
Klobucar, Philip (2017). Poetry’s Execution: Contemporary Writings on the Poetics of Computation.. Humanities, 6(2), Web.
Elliot, Norbert, & Deess, Perry, & Klobucar, Philip, & Collins, Regina, & Sharla, Sava (2016). ePortfolios: Foundational Measurement Issues. Journal of Writing Assessment, 9(2), Web.
Klobucar, Andrew, & Coppola, Nancy, & Elliot, Norbert (2016). Programmatic Research in Technical Communication: An Afterword for Writing Program Assessment. Programmatic Perspectives, 8(2),
Funkhouser, Christopher, & Klobucar, Philip (2013). “Condors’ Polyphony and Jawed Water-lines Catapulted Out: Gnoetry and its Place in Text Processing’s History” . Electronic Book Review, 2013,
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Klobucar, Philip (2013). Cut to Screen: On Materiality and Electronic Texts. TCR: The Capilano Review, 1(7),
Longo, Bernadette, & Coppola, Nancy, & Elliot, Norbert, & Klobucar, Philip, & Johnson, Carol (2013). A Program for Research for Technical Communication: Adaptive Learning. Communication Design Quarterly, ACM SIGDOC, 1(4), 15-17.
Klobucar, Philip (2013). Against Information: Reading (in) the Electronic Waste Land. Electronic Book Review, 2012, n/a.
Klobucar, Philip (2010). Bad Timing: Sense and Censorship in Bob Perelman’s Poetics. Jacket, 39(Spring), Web.
Klobucar, Philip (2010). Between the Pixel and Word: Screen Semantics.. Hyperriz: New Media Cultures, 7(Spring), Web.
Klobucar, Philip (2009). Moodyville: Tweet This, Digg it, Add to del.icio.us, Stumble it. TCR: The Capilano Review, 3(8), 203-06.
Longo, Bernadette, & Coppola, Nancy, & Elliot, Norbert, & Klobucar, Philip, & Johnson, Carol (2013). A Program for Research for Technical Communication: Adaptive Learning. Communication Design Quarterly, ACM SIGDOC, 1(4), 15-17.
Klobucar, Philip (2013). Against Information: Reading (in) the Electronic Waste Land. Electronic Book Review, 2012, n/a.
Klobucar, Philip (2010). Bad Timing: Sense and Censorship in Bob Perelman’s Poetics. Jacket, 39(Spring), Web.
Klobucar, Philip (2010). Between the Pixel and Word: Screen Semantics.. Hyperriz: New Media Cultures, 7(Spring), Web.
Klobucar, Philip (2009). Moodyville: Tweet This, Digg it, Add to del.icio.us, Stumble it. TCR: The Capilano Review, 3(8), 203-06.
COLLAPSE
Book
Klobucar, Philip (2021). The Community and the Algorithm: An Interactive Poetics. Wilmington, Delaware: Vernon Press
Chapter
KLOBUCAR, Philip (2021). When Variables Collaborate: An Introduction to The Algorithm and the Community, Philip Andrew Klobucar (Ed.), . (pp. iv-xxxv). Wilmington, Delaware:
Klobucar, Philip (2013). Being Uncreative: From Bronk to Conceptualism in the Arts and Writing, Edward Foster and Burt Kimmelman (Eds.), William Bronk in the Twenty-First Century: New Assessments. (pp. 11). Greenfield, MA: William Bronk in the Twenty-First Century: New Assessments
Klobucar, Philip, & Deane, Paul, & Deane, Paul, & Ramineni, Chaitanya, & Deess, Perry, & Runniy, Alex (2012). Automated Essay Scoring and The Search for Valid Writing Assessment, Charles. Bazerman, Chris Dean, Jessica Early, Karen Lunsford, Suzie Null, Paul Rogers, and Amanda Stansell (Eds.), Parlor Press. (pp. 103-119). Anderson, South Carolina: Parlor Press
Klobucar, Philip (2003). The Apocalypse will be Televised, John M. Ulrich (Editor), Andrea L. Harris (Editor) (Eds.), Popular Press. (pp. 286-94). Wisconsin: Popular Press
Klobucar, Philip (2013). Being Uncreative: From Bronk to Conceptualism in the Arts and Writing, Edward Foster and Burt Kimmelman (Eds.), William Bronk in the Twenty-First Century: New Assessments. (pp. 11). Greenfield, MA: William Bronk in the Twenty-First Century: New Assessments
Klobucar, Philip, & Deane, Paul, & Deane, Paul, & Ramineni, Chaitanya, & Deess, Perry, & Runniy, Alex (2012). Automated Essay Scoring and The Search for Valid Writing Assessment, Charles. Bazerman, Chris Dean, Jessica Early, Karen Lunsford, Suzie Null, Paul Rogers, and Amanda Stansell (Eds.), Parlor Press. (pp. 103-119). Anderson, South Carolina: Parlor Press
Klobucar, Philip (2003). The Apocalypse will be Televised, John M. Ulrich (Editor), Andrea L. Harris (Editor) (Eds.), Popular Press. (pp. 286-94). Wisconsin: Popular Press
Software
The WorkBench
Online, June 2016
Online, June 2016
Conference Proceeding
Measure for Measure: Moving from Narratives to Timelines in Social Media Networking
Professional Communication Conference (IPCC) Proceedings, 2013., July (3rd Quarter/Summer) 2013
Postsecondary Placement and Rapid Assessment: Setting Standards, Engaging Automated Essay Evaluation, and Establishing Signaling Effects
National Center for Assessment in Higher Education, December 2012
“Players only Love you when they’re Playin’: Community as Algorithm in Programmable Poetics”
Electronic Literature as a Model of Creativity and Innovation in Practice, November 2012
Professional Communication Conference (IPCC) Proceedings, 2013., July (3rd Quarter/Summer) 2013
Postsecondary Placement and Rapid Assessment: Setting Standards, Engaging Automated Essay Evaluation, and Establishing Signaling Effects
National Center for Assessment in Higher Education, December 2012
“Players only Love you when they’re Playin’: Community as Algorithm in Programmable Poetics”
Electronic Literature as a Model of Creativity and Innovation in Practice, November 2012