[4] After writing a PhD thesis on the work of Marguerite Duras and Robert Musil,[5] Saemmer has shifted her focus to the study of digital media and electronic literature in particular, developing terms in social semiotics specifically suited for analysing multimodal digital texts.

Her explorations of the iconicity of digital media,[6] where a sign may consist of multiple modes (e.g. a word and a sound at the same time), has been adopted by other scholars.

"Böhmische Dörfer" is written in the online presentation tool Prezi,[16][17] and is thus another example of Saemmer's experimentation with new digital interfaces.

An article on French electronic literature in the weekly magazine L'Obs characterised Saemmer as among the most interesting poets in the genre.

[18] The Facebook novel Nouvelles de la Colonie[19] has been discussed and analyzed in several articles both by Saemmer[20] and by other scholars.