Which is more important in making a great book, form or content? Without a conventional narrative structure, how much control does an author lose?...Read More
I will be overseas at a conference for the next week and so it is unlikely I will be doing much here. Enjoy the semester break, do the readings, and given the sorts of questions that have been occurri...Read More
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
Can technology progress independently of art and culture? What is the untapped potential of hypertext? Will we ever be satisfied with it? Have internet users lost a sense of privacy? Is bl...Read More
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
Next week is the HTML exam (password is comm2219). You must pass this to receive a result for network media. The exam is done in class. As a part of the exam you will also assess a class colleagueR...Read More
How is hypertext relevant to us as media practitioners? What predictions about network literacy should we be aware of? What are the consequences of being network illiterate?...Read More
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
The questions of the week: How can you judge the validity of things on the internet? What are the limitations of network literacy? How does it differ to print literacy? What limitations do both litera...Read More
The questions raised are: How much freedom do we have when writing critically of others or others’ work before we become liable for defamation or copyright infringement? Copyright protects publi...Read More