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Word Perfect: Literacy In The Computer Age
This book seeks to discuss the enourmus impact computers have on how we read and write, and how we define literacy. While it is written as a critical analysis, the book also reads as a narrative of two opposing models of writing: print literacy and the emerging online literacy.
Mathias Vetti Olaussen - 29.09.2021 - 11:20
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Coherence in text and hypertext
From the author:
The concept of text coherence was developed for linear text, i.e. text of sequentially organized content. The present article addresses to what extent this concept can be applied to hypertext. Following the introduction (section 1), I will define different aspects of text coherence (section 2). I will then explain the importance of the sequential order of text constituents for coherence-building, as explored by empirical studies on text comprehension (section 3). Section 4 discusses how hypertext-specific forms of reading affect the processes of coherence-building and coherence-design. Section 5 explores how the new challenges of hypertext comprehension may be met by hypertext-specific coherence cues. A summary and outlook is included (section 6).
Mathias Vetti Olaussen - 29.09.2021 - 11:36
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Patchwork Girl: the hypertextuality of scars
A short comment on Shelley Jackson's Patchwork Girl, adressing the metaphorical aspect of scars in relation to hypertexts and the layers of Patchwork Girl. Seidel asserts that "In particular, scars are analogous to hypertextual links".
Mathias Vetti Olaussen - 29.09.2021 - 12:16
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Modernist at best: poeticity and tradition in hyperpoetry
Modernist at best: poeticity and tradition in hyperpoetry
Mathias Vetti Olaussen - 29.09.2021 - 12:27
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Narrative across Media: The Languages of Storytelling
The essays gathered in this collection approaches the subject of narrative and how it creates meaning across various media. This collection has a new approach to defining storytelling, raising questions on how narratives are expressed through visual, gestural, electronic and musical means.
Mathias Vetti Olaussen - 29.09.2021 - 12:44
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Orality and Literacy: The Technologizing of the Word
This classic work explores the vast differences between oral and literate cultures offering a very clear account of the intellectual, literary and social effects of writing, print and electronic technology.
In the course of his study, Walter J. Ong offers fascinating insights into oral genres across the globe and through time, and examines the rise of abstract philosophical and scientific thinking. He considers the impact of orality-literacy studies not only on literary criticism and theory but on our very understanding of what it is to be a human being, conscious of self and other.
Alisa Nikolaevna Ammosova - 29.09.2021 - 13:39
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Fans, Bloggers, and Gamers: Exploring Participatory Culture
Henry Jenkins"s pioneering work in the early 1990s promoted the idea that fans are among the most active, creative, critically engaged, and socially connected consumers of popular culture and that they represent the vanguard of a new relationship with mass media. Though marginal and largely invisible to the general public at the time, today, media producers and advertisers, not to mention researchers and fans, take for granted the idea that the success of a media franchise depends on fan investments and participation.
Alisa Nikolaevna Ammosova - 29.09.2021 - 13:57
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A New Philosophy of Society: Assemblage Theory and Social Complexity
The book is an attempt to loosely define a new ontology for use by social theorists — one that challenges the existing paradigm of meaningful social analyses being possible only on the level of either individuals (micro-reductionism) or "society as a whole" (macro-reductionism). Instead, the book employs Gilled Deleuze`s and Felix Guattari's theory of assemblages from A Thousand Plateaus (1980) to posit social entities on all scales (from sub-individual to transnational) that are best analysed through their components (themselves assemblages).
According to DeLanda, following Deleuze's ideas of difference and repetition (what DeLanda calls "variable repetition"), assemblages necessarily exist in heterogeneous populations. The relationship between an assemblage and its components is complex and non-liner: assemblages are formed and affected by heterogeneous populations of lower-level assemblages, but may also act back upon these components, imposing restraints or adaptations in them.
Alisa Nikolaevna Ammosova - 29.09.2021 - 14:22
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The Postcolonial Unconscious
The Postcolonial Unconscious is a major attempt to reconstruct the whole field of postcolonial studies. In this magisterial and, at times, polemical study, Neil Lazarus argues that the key critical concepts that form the very foundation of the field need to be re-assessed and questioned. Drawing on a vast range of literary sources, Lazarus investigates works and authors from Latin America and the Caribbean, Africa and the Arab world, South, Southeast and East Asia, to reconsider them from a postcolonial perspective. Alongside this, he offers bold new readings of some of the most influential figures in the field: Fredric Jameson, Edward Said and Frantz Fanon. A tour de force of postcolonial studies, this book will set the agenda for the future, probing how the field has come to develop in the directions it has and why and how it can grow further.
Alisa Nikolaevna Ammosova - 29.09.2021 - 15:14
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Citizenship and immigration in PostWar Britain: The Institutional Origins of a Multicultural Nation
In this contentious and ground-breaking study, Randall Hansen draws on extensive archival research to provide a new account of the transformation of the UK into a multicultural society through an analysis of the evolution of immigration and citizenship policy since 1945. Against the prevailing
academic orthodoxy, he argues that British immigration policy was not racist but both rational and liberal.Alisa Nikolaevna Ammosova - 29.09.2021 - 15:45
