Discourse Timer: Towards Temporally Dynamic Texts

This paper studies the possibilities of temporally dynamic digital texts. Temporal dynamics may be either dependent on the reader's use of time, or independent of it. Using the categories defined in narratology as our starting point, we outline a list of simple functions that allow a very complex temporal manipulation of narrative digital texts. We will also describe a set of authoring tools, Discourse Timer, which is specifically designed to employ these functions.

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Critical writing that references this:

Title	Author	Publisher	Year
Approaches to Digital Literature: Temporal Dynamics and Cyborg Authors	Raine Koskimaa	Transcript	2010
Engineering stories? A narratological approach to children’s book apps	Hadassah Stichnothe	Barnelitterært forskningstidsskrift / Nordic Journal of ChildLit Aesthetics	2014

Research Collection that references this Critical Writing:

Title
The Importance of the Term of Narratology in Electronic Literature

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