Twining
The Story So Far
Short impact summary
Twining (2021), published by Amherst College Press, has been cited 15 times. Beyond that, it has been downloaded 2,749 times and is used in teaching.
Full narrative
Twining by Anastasia Salter and Stuart Moulthrop was published by Amherst College Press in 2021. Conceptually, the work connects to Hypertext, Storytelling, Process (computing), Computer science and World Wide Web. The book was recognised: ACLS Open Access Book Prize & Arcadia Open Access Publishing Award finalist (2026) — Literary/Media Studies.
OpenAlex records 15 citations. Citations peaked in 2022 with 4 citing works. Notable citing venues include Human-computer interaction series, Humanities and New Review of Hypermedia and Multimedia. The citing works include 8 journal articles and 2 book chapters. They come from 5 countries, led by the United States, the United Kingdom and Canada.
In teaching, it is discussed in 2 recorded lectures. It is discussed on Wikipedia (3 mentions). It has been downloaded 2,749 times via OAPEN. Open Library reports a combined count of 1 reading logs and catalog editions. A further 3 mentions appear in other attention signals. Its subject matter aligns with Quality Education among the Sustainable Development Goals.
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Crossref Event Data: historical records unavailable locally—not zero events. The public API was retired on 23 April 2026. Other attention sources may still be shown.
Inferred roles
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Access Availability
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.3998/mpub.12255695
- OA status: Gold
- OA source: DOAB
- OA basis: DOAB record found for this title
- OA evidence chain: DOAB → OAPEN → Publisher-claimed → ACLS/Arcadia rule → OpenAlex/Crossref
- Landing page: https://doi.org/10.3998/mpub.12255695
- OAPEN Library: https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/57785
- DOAB: https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/89263
Full text beyond the publisher
1 distinct location with full-text evidence. Availability is reported by the index and may change.
- BiblioBoard Library Catalog (Open Research Library)
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Reader reception Books
- Google Books: View listing ↗
- Hardcover: 1 ratings ↗ ⭐ 5.0/5
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10.0/10
- 🏆 ACLS Open Access Book Prize & Arcadia Open Access Publishing Award finalist (2026) — Literary/Media Studies
- Commercial: Amazon · Goodreads
Citation context scite
- Total: 1
- Supporting: 0
- Mentioning: 1
- Contradicting: 0
Who is citing this work? OpenAlex
Analysis of 15 citing works. 73.3% come from the Top 10 institutions. See the full list on OpenAlex →
- University of Central Florida (2)
- Bhavnagar University (1)
- Davidson College (1)
- University of Alberta (1)
- Rochester Institute of Technology (1)
- University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (1)
- University of North Carolina at Greensboro (1)
- Bradley University (1)
- Instituto de Tecnologias Interativas (1)
- Laboratório de Robótica e Sistemas de Engenharia (1)
- University College London (1)
- The Ohio State University (1)
- Bournemouth University (1)
- Mark Bernstein (2)
- PS Berge (2)
- Daniel Cox (2)
- Jon Heggestad (1)
- Trent Hergenrader (1)
- R. Lyle Skains (1)
- Dilip P. Barad (1)
- Marisa Hicks-Alcaraz (1)
- Jack Murray (1)
- Anastasia Salter (1)
- Xhenet Aliu (1)
- Simon Peter Rowberry (1)
- Colin Post (1)
- Calvin Olsen (1)
- Terhi Marttila (1)
- Madison Schmalzer (1)
- Callie Plemmons (1)
- Prakruti Kaushikbhai Bhatt (1)
- Katie Bowman (1)
- Charlie Birkner (1)
Open Science Signals PRISM
Open peer review and repository accessibility signals for this work.
Open Peer Review PRISM
- Status: No explicit PRISM review record returned
- Interpretation: neutral signal — this does not mean the book had no peer review; only that PRISM returned no explicit title-level review metadata.
- Publisher context: Amherst College Press
Online mentions & public discourse Open Web
Community platforms and curated expert sources (newsletters, blogs, podcasts), plus historical Crossref Event Data where locally archived.
Community engagement
Book reference verified in this article's references or bibliography. Checked revision.
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Teaching, Practice & Library Adoption
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Video Lectures & Presentations YouTube Transcripts
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Library & Community Access Open Library
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Community Reach:
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Citations OpenAlex
| Year | Title | Venue | DOI |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | Choosing our own adventures: Reflections on hosting digital fiction game jams and workshops in an academic library | College & Undergraduate Libraries | 10.1080/10691316.2026.2714005 |
| 2026 | Teaching electronic literature in India: a case study of using twine for a creative writing workshop | New Review of Hypermedia and Multimedia | 10.1080/13614568.2026.2645116 |
| 2026 | Worlds of Possibility: Tabletop Roleplaying Open Gaming Licenses Meet Interactive Fiction | Humanities | 10.3390/h15030044 |
| 2026 | Frontiers Forged and Colonized: Feminist Storytelling in Digital Narrative | Humanities | 10.3390/h15020033 |
| 2025 | Playing in postmortem: link rot, memory decay, and haunting archives at the end of the world | Critical Studies in Media Communication | 10.1080/15295036.2025.2599297 |
| 2025 | Beach Philosophies | Unknown | 10.1145/3715668.3736385 |
| 2025 | Anti-Games, Fantasy Consoles, and the Rise of Speculative Game Development on Itch.io | Unknown | 10.1145/3723498.3723739 |
| 2024 | A Novel Architecture for Classical Hypertext | Unknown | 10.1145/3648188.3675147 |
| 2024 | Hypertext and its afterlives: Shelley Jackson’s Patchwork Girl and/as undead electronic literature | New Review of Hypermedia and Multimedia | 10.1080/13614568.2024.2374286 |
| 2023 | Historiographies of Hypertext | UCL Discovery (University College London) | 10.1145/3603163.3609038 |
| 2023 | '[Aimlessly] Playing Around': Queer Affordances in Graduate Students' Digital Archives | IDEAH | 10.21428/f1f23564.b3b6f503 |
| 2022 | And Gladly Teach: Drawn by Hand: Community College Students as Graphic Novelists | College English | 10.58680/ce202232101 |
| 2022 | Adventures in TwineSpace: An Augmented Reality Story Format for Twine | Lecture notes in computer science | 10.1007/978-3-031-22298-6_32 |
| 2022 | We Make How We Learn: The Role of Community in Authoring Tool Longevity | Human-computer interaction series | 10.1007/978-3-031-05214-9_5 |
| 2022 | The Authoring Problem is a Publishing Problem | Human-computer interaction series | 10.1007/978-3-031-05214-9_6 |
That's the evidence for Twining
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