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Lingua Technica: Journal of Digital Literary Studies
ISSN : -     EISSN : 31093264     DOI : https://doi.org/10.64595/lingtech
This journal covers a wide range of fields, including digital literature, e-poetry, and the relationship between language, literature, and technology in diverse contexts.
Articles 31 Documents
Digital reading platforms in literary learning: cultural understanding and engagement in Indonesian and Malay texts Mohd Roslan Mohd Nor; Ahmad Zubaidi
Lingua Technica: Journal of Digital Literary Studies Vol. 2 No. 1 (2026): Literature and computation: Mapping, modeling, and mediation
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.64595/lingtech.v2i1.131

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Background: The increasing use of digital reading platforms in humanities education has transformed how readers interact with texts, yet their impact on literary engagement, cultural understanding, and interpretive depth in Southeast Asian literary learning remains underexplored. Objective: This study investigates how digital reading platforms shape engagement, cultural meaning-making, and interpretive depth in the reading of Indonesian and Malay texts. Method: Employing a mixed-methods design, the study analyzes digitally mediated interactions—annotations, discussions, and reflective responses—across a curated corpus of canonical Indonesian and Malay works (published between the 1970s and 2010s) accessed through institutional digital reading platforms. Results: The findings reveal distinct patterns of digital engagement, with Indonesian texts eliciting stronger annotation-based interaction and Malay texts fostering more dialogic discussion. Cultural understanding emerges in differentiated forms, combining historical–political contextualization and ethical–communal interpretation. Furthermore, digital mediation supports advanced literary interpretation, including thematic synthesis, ideological critique, and intertextual reasoning. Implication: These results indicate that digital reading platforms function as cultural and interpretive mediation spaces rather than neutral technologies. Novelty: This study integrates literature-specific interpretive indicators with platform-based empirical data, offering a culturally grounded model of digital literary learning.
Text mining and semantic modeling of literary corpora: a machine learning–based study of Indonesian fiction Rinda Widya Ikomah; Zohaib Hassan Sain
Lingua Technica: Journal of Digital Literary Studies Vol. 2 No. 1 (2026): Literature and computation: Mapping, modeling, and mediation
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.64595/lingtech.v2i1.133

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Background: The large-scale digitization of Indonesian literary works has produced extensive textual corpora that challenge conventional close-reading approaches and call for systematic, data-driven methods capable of capturing thematic, semantic, and affective patterns in fiction. Objective: This study aims to examine how text mining and semantic modeling can reveal lexical salience, intertextual relations, and narrative emotion in Indonesian fiction across different thematic orientations. Method: Using a quantitative corpus-based design, the study analyzes 36 Indonesian literary texts published between 1980 and 2022 through TF–IDF–based lexical analysis, document-level semantic embeddings with cosine similarity and clustering, and sentence-level sentiment analysis. Results: The findings show distinct lexical signatures that differentiate thematic clusters, coherent semantic groupings reflecting intertextual proximity, and sentiment trajectories dominated by neutral-to-negative polarity with strategically placed affective peaks across narrative progression. Implication: These results demonstrate that computational methods can empirically support literary analysis without displacing interpretive criticism. Novelty: The study integrates lexical, semantic, and affective modeling within a unified framework for Indonesian fiction, offering a scalable and replicable approach to digital literary studies.
Digital literary cartography and colonial space: re-mapping spatial imaginations in Robinson Crusoe and Max Havelaar Fitriya Dessi Wulandari; René Faruk Garzozi Pincay; Dian Muhammad Rifai
Lingua Technica: Journal of Digital Literary Studies Vol. 2 No. 1 (2026): Literature and computation: Mapping, modeling, and mediation
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.64595/lingtech.v2i1.135

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Background: The spatial turn in literary studies and digital humanities highlights the need to reassess how colonial space is constructed through the interaction between narrative and cartographic knowledge. Objective: This study examines how colonial spatial imagination is produced, contested, and differentiated in Robinson Crusoe (1719) and Max Havelaar (1860) through digital literary cartography. Method: Using a qualitative digital humanities design, the research integrates close textual analysis with historical cartographic materials and spatial metadata, focusing on Atlantic navigation maps, West Indies and New England coastal maps, and administrative maps of Java and Bantam. Results: The findings show that Robinson Crusoe aligns with a cartographic logic of enclosure and maritime circulation, reinforced by island, Atlantic, and West Indies maps that normalize spatial mastery. In contrast, Max Havelaar articulates a fragmented administrative geography, revealed through maps of Java and the Dutch East Indies that expose bureaucratic segmentation and ethical tension. Comparative re-mapping demonstrates divergent cartographic epistemologies shaped by exploration versus governance. Implication: Digital literary cartography reveals colonial space as an ideological construct rather than a neutral backdrop. Novelty: The study offers a comparative Global South–oriented cartographic reading that repositions maps as critical epistemic texts in colonial literature.  
Poetics of algorithmic excess: digital aesthetics in Indonesia’s Twitter poetry bot Yahya Auliya Abdillah
Lingua Technica: Journal of Digital Literary Studies Vol. 2 No. 1 (2026): Literature and computation: Mapping, modeling, and mediation
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.64595/lingtech.v2i1.138

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Background: The rapid expansion of social media platforms has transformed literary production, enabling algorithmic poetry to emerge as a digital-native form that challenges conventional notions of authorship, meaning, and aesthetic value. Objective: This study examines how Indonesian Twitter bot poetry operates as a poetics of algorithmic excess, with attention to formal patterns, semantic instability, and platform-mediated authorship. Method: Using a qualitative digital humanities approach, the research analyzes a corpus of 240 poems generated by an Indonesian Twitter poetry bot through close reading, pattern identification, and platform-aware interpretation. Results: The findings show that algorithmic repetition and structural fragmentation function as dominant formal strategies, displacing expressive intentionality with procedural regularity. Semantic noise and randomness produce episodic meaning, shifting interpretive responsibility from author to reader. Platform circulation redistributes authorship among algorithms, users, and infrastructural systems, positioning Twitter/X as a co-author in literary production. Implications: Algorithmic poetry constitutes a legitimate literary practice shaped by platform capitalism and posthuman creativity. Novelty: The study offers a Global South perspective on digital poetics by theorizing algorithmic excess as an aesthetic principle within platform-mediated literature.
Mapping the field of digital literary studies: Concepts, methods, and emerging directions Achmad Fawaid
Lingua Technica: Journal of Digital Literary Studies Vol. 1 No. 1 (2025): Foundations of digital literary studies: Concepts, textuality, and pedagogical
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.64595/99c6t274

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The expansion of digital archives, computational tools, platform-based reading practices, and artificial intelligence has transformed literary studies into a field where texts are increasingly examined as data, networks, interfaces, and machine-mediated cultural objects. This study aims to map the field of digital literary studies by identifying its dominant concepts, methodological clusters, and emerging research directions. Methodologically, the study employs a qualitative-dominant field-mapping design supported by bibliometric description, keyword co-occurrence mapping, bibliometric-oriented science mapping, and corpus-assisted thematic analysis of selected scholarly metadata, abstracts, keywords, and conceptual statements. The findings show that digital literary studies is organised around five major formations: digital humanities and literary interpretation, computational and distant reading, electronic literature and digital textuality, cultural analytics and platform-based literary circulation, and AI-oriented literary analysis. The study also reveals that literary objects are increasingly conceptualised as archives, corpora, graphs, interfaces, platforms, datasets, and algorithmic outputs. The novelty of this study lies in its integrated mapping of concepts, methods, and future directions within digital literary studies.
From hypertext to interactive narrative: Structure, agency, and multimodal meaning-making of e-literature Nurmalita Herdiana
Lingua Technica: Journal of Digital Literary Studies Vol. 1 No. 1 (2025): Foundations of digital literary studies: Concepts, textuality, and pedagogical
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The expansion of digital culture has transformed literature from a print-based, linear, and author-centered form into a computational, multimodal, and interactive system of meaning-making. This study aims to examine the evolution of electronic literature from hypertext fiction to interactive narrative by analyzing how textual structure, reader agency, and multimodal experience change across selected digital literary forms. Using a qualitative digital humanities design, the study analyzes selected works and metadata from curated electronic literature archives, including the Electronic Literature Collection, ELMCIP Knowledge Base, The NEXT, and Pathfinders, through hypertextual structure analysis, interactive narrative analysis, and multimodal discourse analysis. The findings show that early hypertext fiction replaces linear sequence with nodes, links, lexias, screens, and navigational pathways that reposition the reader as an active explorer of textual architecture. This study also reveals that interactive narrative expands reader agency from pathway selection into decision-making, action, feedback, interface-mediated participation, and narrative consequence within responsive story systems. The novelty of this study lies in its integrative analytical model that connects hypertextual architecture, participatory agency, and multimodal transformation as three interrelated dimensions in the evolution of electronic literature
Language, code, and platform-mediated textuality in electronic literature Seroja Ainun Nadifah
Lingua Technica: Journal of Digital Literary Studies Vol. 1 No. 1 (2025): Foundations of digital literary studies: Concepts, textuality, and pedagogical
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Digital literary platforms have transformed literary production and reception by making language inseparable from code, interface, hyperlink, metadata, archive, and platform infrastructure. This study aims to examine how language, code, and textuality operate in electronic literature by focusing on selected works and records from the Electronic Literature Collection, ELMCIP Knowledge Base, The NEXT, IFDB, Interactive Fiction Archive, and Twine-based interactive fiction. Using a qualitative interpretive design, the study combines Digital Discourse Analysis, Platform Studies, and Code/Textual Analysis to examine verbal units, hyperlinks, interface elements, metadata records, branching structures, navigational cues, and accessible code-related procedures. The findings show that digital discourse organizes reading through commands, hyperlinks, menus, choices, metadata labels, and navigational cues that position readers as navigators, operators, assemblers, cartographers, and constrained agents. The findings also reveal that platforms and interfaces function as material conditions that classify, preserve, display, authorize, and regulate access to digital literary works through entry pages, metadata fields, emulator notes, file formats, browser layouts, and curatorial descriptions. The novelty of this study lies in its integrated methodological framework, which treats electronic literature as a linguistic, procedural, infrastructural, and executable literary system rather than merely as digitized textual content
Multimodal poetics in digital literature: A corpus-based analysis of visual-verbal design, screen-based textuality, and reader interaction Ridhatullah Assyabani
Lingua Technica: Journal of Digital Literary Studies Vol. 1 No. 1 (2025): Foundations of digital literary studies: Concepts, textuality, and pedagogical
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Digital literature has transformed literary experience by shifting reading from a page-bound encounter with verbal text into a screen-based engagement with visual design, textual movement, interface structure, and reader participation. This study aims to examine how selected digital-born literary works construct meaning through the integrated operation of verbal, visual, and interactive forms. Using a qualitative interpretive design, the study analyses works drawn from recognized electronic literature archives through Multimodal Discourse Analysis, Digital Poetics Analysis, and Interface and Interaction Analysis. The findings show that visual-verbal configuration functions as a core poetic mechanism, in which typography, layout, image, colour, spatial arrangement, and screen composition actively reshape verbal meaning. The study also finds that fragmentation, movement, and screen-based textuality expand poetic form beyond stable printed structures by making language dynamic, procedural, and temporally organized. Reader navigation further emerges as a crucial mode of meaning-making, as clicking, scrolling, selecting, waiting, observing, and activating textual elements transform reading into a performative negotiation between agency and constraint. The novelty of this study lies in its corpus-based multimodal poetics framework, which integrates visual-verbal design, digital textual dynamics, and interactive readerly performance into a single analytical model for examining digital-born literature.
Reader participation, platform affordances, and interactive meaning-making in online literary environments Suaidi
Lingua Technica: Journal of Digital Literary Studies Vol. 1 No. 1 (2025): Foundations of digital literary studies: Concepts, textuality, and pedagogical
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The growth of online literary environments has transformed reading from a private act of textual reception into a participatory, interactive, and platform-mediated cultural practice in which readers comment, evaluate, classify, recommend, and circulate literary works. This study aims to examine how reader participation and interactivity are constructed through the relationship among digital narrative structures, reader responses, and platform affordances in online literary environments. Using a qualitative digital textual design, this study analyzes digital literary works, reader comments, votes, kudos, bookmarks, tags, author’s notes, content warnings, interface features, and participation metrics from Electronic Literature Collection, Wattpad, Archive of Our Own, and ELMCIP Knowledge Base. The findings show that interactive narrative structures operate through hyperlink-based navigation, multimodal activation, serial continuation, paratextual framing, and interface-mediated reader movement. Reader responses demonstrate that literary meaning is produced through affective engagement, interpretation, evaluation, communal interaction, curation, and textual circulation. This study contributes to digital literary studies by integrating digital narratology, reader-response analysis, and platform/interface analysis into a unified framework for understanding online literature as a socio-technical literary ecology
Teaching digital literature in secondary school: Multimodal meaning-making and students’ interpretive engagement Dewi Masyithoh
Lingua Technica: Journal of Digital Literary Studies Vol. 1 No. 1 (2025): Foundations of digital literary studies: Concepts, textuality, and pedagogical
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The growing use of digital platforms in secondary education has changed how literature is accessed, discussed, and produced, yet many classroom practices still treat technology mainly as a tool for distributing materials rather than as part of literary meaning-making. This study aims to examine how digital literature is taught in one public senior high school in East Java. Using a qualitative case study design, this research analysed lesson documents, teaching materials, selected digital literary texts, classroom observations, platform interactions, student reflections, creative products, teacher interviews, selected student interviews, and assessment artefacts through TPACK Analysis, Multimodal Discourse Analysis, and Reader-Response Analysis. The findings show that technology integration was uneven: Google Classroom, Padlet, Canva, mobile phones, online texts, and projection media supported access, discussion, reflection, and production, but lesson objectives and assessment rubrics still relied heavily on print-based literary categories. Digital literary texts expanded meaning-making through verbal, visual, auditory, spatial, kinetic, interactive, and platform-based modes. Students demonstrated strong affective, social, and creative engagement, especially through digital poems, visual stories, posters, and video responses, but they experienced difficulty with hyperlinks, non-linear narration, interface structures, and multimodal coherence. The novelty of this study lies in proposing a corpus-based classroom framework that connects TPACK, multimodal discourse, and reader-response perspectives to examine digital literature as instructional design, textual form, and student reading experience.

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