The Little Database Volume 64 A Poetics of Media Formats

"The Little Database is an incredibly powerful intervention into twenty-first-century experimental poetics and avant-garde media practices. It's an absolute delight to read Daniel Scott Snelson's critical engagement with digital media as a literary and artistic form. His sociopoetical method provides an exciting approach that goes beyond both close reading and large-scale computational data analysis." - Stephanie Boluk, coauthor of Metagaming: Playing, Competing, Spectating, Cheating, Trading, Making, and Breaking Videogames

"With an extraordinary eye for detail, Daniel Scott Snelson opens up the space between big data and close reading, leveraging the signification of 'media' in its most capacious sense: materiality, file format, distribution network, platform, infrastructure, community. The results dazzle with eye-opening insight, astonish with breathtaking interpretive acrobatics, and invite with the infectious delight of discovering how many vast worlds lodge within the little." - Craig Dworkin, author of Dictionary Poetics: Toward a Radical Lexicography

"The Little Database is an important publication. It opens new ground for close reading in an environment that heavily promotes big data techniques and the neoliberal ideologies that accompany it in the new economy of attention. It strongly contributes to a deepening of new media poetics and media materialism in a way that fruitfully complements media archeology." - Leonardo Reviews