This document provides information about the digital fiction project "Inanimate Alice" created by Kate Pullinger and Chris Joseph. It describes Inanimate Alice as an interactive, multimedia novel told in episodic installments that follows the coming-of-age story of the main character Alice. The project has gained popularity among broad audiences and is used in educational settings due to its low barrier for interactivity that increases with each episode, allowing students to develop multiple literacies.

1. Joel I. Navarrete Ayala
Juliette M. Serrano Cruz

2.  Born in Cranbrook, British Columbia and
went to high school on Vancouver.
 She dropped out of McGill University,
Montreal, after a year and a half she went
to work on mines in northern Canada.
 She started travelling the world, then
settled in London, England, where she has
been ever since.
 She writes for both print and digital
platforms.

3.  A little stranger
 Weird sister
 The last time I saw Jane
 Where does kissing end?
 When the monster dies
 In 2009 her novel “The Mistress of
Nothing” won the Governor General’s
Literary Award for Fiction, one of Canada’s
most prestigious literary prizes.

4.  “My Life as a Girl in a Men’s Prison”, “Tiny Lies” and “Piano”
 Her prize-winning digital fiction projects “Inanimate Alice” and “Flight
Paths: A Networked Novel” have reached audiences around the world.
 Other projects include A libretto based on Oscar Wilde’s “Picture of
Dorian Grey”

5.  Is a work of Digital Fiction Kate Pullinger and Chris Joseph.
 Episode 1: “China” won the first ever prize for Digital Art awarded by MAXXI
 Over the past few years, Inanimate Alice has gained a powerful reputation as a
vital transmedia title in education.
 Born Digital
 Interactive
 Multimedia
 A novel
 Episodic

6.  It has proven to be popular across a broad range of ages as well as with a
broad range of viewers.
 Educators like Inanimate Alice because the level of interactivity starts low
in episode one, increasing with each subsequent episode in order to reflect
Alice’s own growing abilities.
 Inanimate Alice is easily assimilated into learning environments; its use of
multimodality like:
- Images
- Sounds
- Texts
- Interaction
 It is a new media fiction that allows students to develop multiple
literacies(literary, cinematic, artistic, etc.) in combination with the highly
collaborative and participatory nature of the online environment.

7.  Alice is 13 years old
 Parents moved a couple of years ago
 Her father John works at an oil
company
 Her mother Ming stays at home and
paints
 Alice is home schooled
 They must leave the country in a rush

8.  Matryoshka dolls
 A Bildungsroman

9.  This was a story about a girl named Alice and her family and how she
matures as all these events unfold around her. It show us that at the end we
are the sum of our experiences.