Publications

“Capturing the Imagination: Literary Expression, Participatory Culture and Digital Enclosure.” Routledge Companion to Literary Media, edited by Bronwen Thomas, Julia Round and Astrid Ensslin, Routledge, 2023, pp. 259-270.

“Conditions of Presence: Topological Complementarities in The Silent History.” Small Screen Fictions, special issue of Paradoxa, edited by Astrid Ensslin, Lisa Swanstrom and Paweł Frelik, vol. 29, 2017, pp. 227-250.

“Copyright Dramas: Theatre Archives and Collections Online.” Dynamic Fair Dealing: Creating Canadian Culture Online, edited by Rosemary J. Coombe, Darren Wershler and Martin Zeilinger, University of Toronto Press, 2014, pp. 273-283.

“Towards Network Narrative: Electronic Literature, Communication Technologies, and Cultural Production.” Electronic Literature Communities, Part 2, special issue of Dichtung Digital, no. 42, Dec. 2012, www.dichtung-digital.de/en/journal/archiv/?postID=593. 

“Towards a Dialogic Archive: Canadian Copyright Law, Digital Archives, and Fair Dealing.” Proceedings: Culture and Computing 2011. Los Alamitos, California: IEEE Computer Society, 2011. 57-62. DOI: 10.1109/Culture-Computing.2011.19

Meurer, David M. and Rosemary J. Coombe. “Digital Media and the Informational Politics of Appropriation.” Lifting: Theft in Art, edited by Gavin Morrison and Fraser Stables, Peacock Visual Arts, 2009, pp. 20-27.

Conference Presentations

“Storytelling at the Periphery: Narrative Strategies in the Twitter Fiction Festival.” ELO2019 (Electronic Literature Organization). University College Cork, Ireland. July 15-17, 2019.

“Capturing the Imagination: Literary Expression, Participatory Culture and Digital Enclosure.” ELO2018 (Electronic Literature Organization). Université du Québec à Montréal, Montréal, Canada, August 13-17, 2018.

“Window on the World: Connecting Canadian and Global Cultures in Out My Window.” Connecting Canada – Connecting the World. York University, Toronto, Canada, Dec. 7-9, 2017.

“Emergent Story Structures and Participatory Digital Narrative.” Closing long paper plenary session on “Next Horizons in Electronic Literature.” ELO2016 (Electronic Literature Organization). University of Victoria, Victoria, Canada, June 10-12, 2016. 

“Conditions of Presence: The Topology of Network Narratives.” ELO2015 (Electronic Literature Organization). University of Bergen, Norway, Aug. 5-7, 2015. 

“Dealing Fairly with Orphan Works: Online Performing Arts Archives and ArtmobCMS.” HASTAC 2013. York University, Toronto, Canada, Apr. 26-28, 2013.

“Online Access to Digital Cultural Heritage: Dealing Fairly with Canadian Cultural Resources in Digital Archives.” Poster Presentation. SDH-SEMI (Society for Digital Humanities) 2012 Conference, Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences. University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Canada, May 28-30, 2012.

“Towards a Dialogic Archive: Canadian Copyright Law, Digital Archives, and Fair Dealing.” Second International Conference on Culture and Computing. Kyoto University, Japan. Oct. 20-22, 2011.

“From Novel to Network Narrative: Literary Production, Communication Technologies, and Everyday Practices.” York Graduate Humanities Conference 2011. York University. Apr. 16, 2011.

“Artmob CMS: Arts-Oriented Digital Archiving Software.” Poster Presentation. With Bill Kennedy. Association of Canadian Archivists’ ACA 2009 Conference. Calgary, May 14-17, 2009.

“Theatre Archives Online: New Directions for Educational Digital Archives.” New Directions: People, Passion & Pedagogy. Graduate Conference in Education 2009, York University. May 8, 2009.

Invited Lectures and Talks

“Digital Archives for Studies in the History of African Diaspora Documents (SHADD).” SHADD Biography Project: Testimonies of West Africans from the Era of the Slave Trade. Working Workshop. Tubman Institute, York University. Oct. 17-18, 2014.

“The Future of the Novel: Information, Communication and Narrative.” Augmented Reality: The State of the Art. Augmented Reality Lab, York University, Toronto. Dec. 17, 2013.

“Digitization in the Humanities: Copyright, Cultural Policy and Digital Archives.” Guest Lecture: CLTR 3140 Digital Culture in the Humanities; Faculty of Liberal Arts and Professional Studies, York University, Toronto. Jul. 25, 2012.

“Re-Imagining Fair Dealing: Digital Archiving Software for Canadian Cultural Projects.” With Rosemary J. Coombe. York University, Toronto. Presented to Osgoode Hall Law School “IP Osgoode” Research Unit. Jan. 13, 2011.

Discussant in Webcast Course Module on Intellectual Property. Schulich School of Business, York University, Toronto. MBA course: “Technology, Innovation & Design.” Nov. 23, 2009.

“Copyright, Creativity, Digital Media and Remix Culture.” Guest Lecture: FACS 1939 Interactive New Media Art: An Introduction; Faculty of Fine Arts, York University. Oct. 1, 2009.

“Novel Futures: Problems of Authorship in Electronic Literature.” Convergences: Law Language and Culture. First Annual Osnabrück Summer School on the Cultural Study of the Law. Final Symposium. Aug. 15, 2009.