The whole academic area of humanities has been facing a massive decline
around the world: the number of students, their job opportunities and financial
budgets have been steadily shrinking. So, in the Information Age, something must
be done to improve the current situation: the digitization of the literary text to
attract many more people in a more accessible way using multimedia features.
Readers are required to have a wide range of background knowledge to understand
the scholastic texts of James Joyce which cover Irish history, Christianity and
European cultures. There have been various kinds of annotations, guidebooks and
academic books about Joyce’s works in book form. Recently, numerous websites
related to James Joyce have been developed in order to offer annotations and
articles free of charge. James Joyce himself was very interested in the progress of
technology as he described some aspects of the early twentieth-century
technological culture in his literary works. Digital Joyce studies might be what the
author wanted us to be engaged in. The ultimate digital Joyce tool is probably
“Joycestick,
” a virtual reality game developed by a Boston College team, which
enables you to experience the world of Ulysses virtually.