So following the symposium today and having read the readings, the person who i felt was instrumental in all of this hypertext discussion is Ted Nelson. Nelson’s definition of hypertext goes as follows: “to mean a body of written or pictorial material interconnected in such a complex way that it could not conveniently be presented […]

This week’s reading by Jay David Bolter discusses The Computer, Hypertext and the History of Writing. Amongst many things, Bolter addresses the changes we have faced from hand writing to the printing press, and from the printing press to the computer. In the beginning of the piece he describes writing as a technology for collective […]

Sitting in a tutorial, a very interesting question came up from a fellow media student. While we were all brainstorming questions he asked us ‘what is the validity of the internet?’ I know that we are all very trusting of things we read on the net but should we be? When we were learning and […]

For those like myself, who are fresh to the world of blogging, i believe there are a lot of things we don’t even begin to consider about what responsibilities come with the title of ‘blogger.’ One week in to my Network Media course at RMIT, this is my first train of thought on the practice. […]