James O’Sullivan lectures at University College Cork (National University of Ireland). He has previously held faculty positions at the University of Sheffield and Pennsylvania State University. His research has been published in a variety of interdisciplinary journals and collections, including Digital Scholarship in the Humanities, Literary Studies in a Digital Age, and the Electronic Book Review. He is the author of several collections of poetry, including Courting Katie (2017), and the Founding Editor of New Binary Press.

• 1. Introduction.- 2. Digital Culture and the New Modernity.- 3. Electronic Literature.- 4. Interactivity and the Illusion of Choice.- 5. Digital Materiality and the Politics of the Screen.- 6. Towards a Digital Poetics.