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1. Reading Hyperfiction - Mission Impossible?

   During readings of hyperfiction studies I have noticed a peculiar tendency in relation to the study of literature. Most of them focus exclusively on form: complex web-textuality, multilinearity and architecture as well as navigation, inderterminancy and the role of the reader and author. One has to ask: Why do very few of these studies of hyperfiction deal with the content, i.e. the story, the plot? But rather employ these aspects only in relation to form?

   Jill Walker Rettberg - 09.10.2012 - 22:30

2. Reading Cybertexts - An Empirical Approach

   I am currently planning an empirical study on how people actually read digital texts (plain texts in digital format, hypertexts, cybertexts). I will discuss the preconditions of such study - how the reading platform (computer screen, ebook) affects the act of reading, and what are the interpretive frameworks people employ when confronting unfamiliar cybertexts. Preliminary findings from a pilot research possibly available.

   Jill Walker Rettberg - 09.10.2012 - 22:35