ENGL 212 is a special topics course on literature and other media. In this case, we will be considering literature and the Internet. We will discuss novels written on, and intended to be read on, cell phones. We will ask how e-readers have changed reading practices and the experience of literature. We will ask if GIF poems are literary or visual art forms. And we will examine early experiments in digital literature that made use of innovations (such as hypertext) that have since become essential to the Internet. Along the way, we’ll encounter some of the fiercest debates in recent history about the value of reading and writing.