Tag: readings03
Reading 10
The big Lev Manovich: Manovich, Lev. “Database as Symbolic Form”. Database Aesthetics: Art in the Age of Information Overflow. Vesna, Victoria, ed. Minneapolis: University Of Minnesota Press, 2007... Read More
Reading 09
A continuing foray into the shapes of networks, particularly the sorts of shapes relevant to the internet. This is about power law distributions and small world networks. Which is a) why the internet ... Read More
Reading 08
Now we move to thinking about what sort of network the Web and Internet might be. Watts, Duncan J. Six Degrees: The Science of a Connected Age. London: Vintage, 2003. Print. (Extract – PDF) Bara... Read More
Reading 07
Apologies, I had thought these readings were online before I went to London for a conference. (Ah, they were but there was a tag problem so looks like they didn’t appear under the reading headin... Read More
Reading 07
We’ve looked at some earlier history, then the implications of hypertext, and partly based on the things happening in class and the blogs, I think it is useful to read a general survey about technol... Read More
Reading 06
We are continuing for a bit on the hypertext, but shifting from the writing side to some introductory material on its implications for narrative, and readers. While this reading is about hypertext, th... Read More
Reading 05
So we’ve looked at some prehistory, now the theoretical work around the first big mutlilinear shapeshifter, hypertext. Why hypertext? It is about story and text and we already know a lot about t... Read More
Reading 04
Now we turn towards the pre-history of the World Wide Web, with maverick genius Ted Nelson’s early self published work on hypertext (when Tim Berners-Lee wrote the first protocol for the Web he ... Read More