In the contemporary era, both print and electronic texts are deeply interpenetrated by code. Digital technologies are now so thoroughly integrated with commercial printing processes that print is more properly considered a particular output form of electronic text than an entirely separate medium. Nevertheless, electronic text remains distinct from print in that it literally cannot be accessed until it is performed by properly executed code. The immediacy of code to the text's performance is fundamental to understanding electronic literature.
-from Electronic Literature: What is it? N. Kathrine Hayles.
Examples of digital poetry &other digital narratives:
more info. on Electronic / Digital Literature:
The Electronic Literature Organization (former director Thom Swiss)
Katherine Hayles' definition of electronic literature --
"You will not Believe..." -- collaborative fiction writing site --
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