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No War Machine
No War Machine
Scott Rettberg - 29.06.2013 - 20:04
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Pushing Back: Living and Writing in Broken Space
Pushing Back: Living and Writing in Broken Space
Scott Rettberg - 29.06.2013 - 20:50
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Cybertext: Perspectives on Ergodic literature
The influential book that introduced the terms cybertext and ergodic literature was first written as a PhD dissertation. See the entry for the book for details and references.
Jill Walker Rettberg - 29.06.2013 - 21:35
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Hypertext: a Psychological Perspective
While the ideas underlying hypertext have been around for a long time, it is only comparatively recently that the availability of powerful desktop microcomputers has enabled hypertext systems to become commercially viable tools. While developments in hypertext in recent years have been very much technology-oriented, interest is now centring on the effects of the technology from a human psychological perspective.
Written by leading figures in the field the authors look at the psychological considerations such as memory, education and navigation underlying the design of hypertext systems. Addressing itself to the full range of psychological issues, with direct reference to practical applications, this book places the technology within the domain of human activities and thereby provides a broader perspective on the role and value of emerging information systems.
Readership: Researchers, postgraduates and senior-level undergraduates in psychology and cognitive science. Also of interest to students and researchers in information science, computer science, ergonomics, software design, educational technology and human factors.
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Scott Rettberg - 30.06.2013 - 20:08
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Women Writers and the Restive Text: Feminism, Experimental Writing and Hypertext
Women Writers and the Restive Text: Feminism, Experimental Writing and Hypertext
Scott Rettberg - 30.06.2013 - 21:45
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The Rationale of Hypertext
The Rationale of Hypertext
Scott Rettberg - 30.06.2013 - 21:55
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Poles in Your Face: The Promises and Pitfalls of Hypertext Fiction
Poles in Your Face: The Promises and Pitfalls of Hypertext Fiction
Scott Rettberg - 01.07.2013 - 12:10
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Jumping to Occlusions
"Jumping to Occlusions" is perhaps the first thorough statement of a poetics of online space. In the present hypertextual trickster edition, a lively investigative language of the link is employed helping to develop this essay's written argument through its own hypertextuality -- its jumps, sidebars, graphics, embedded sound files, misleadings, and other features. This essay explores electronic technology's opportunities for the production, archiving, distribution, and promotion of poetic texts but most importantly, argues that electronic space is a space of writing. For previous excursions into this a written terrain of links and jumps one need only look to the language experiments of certain poets writing in this century. Such poets include Gertrude Stein, Charles Olson, Robert Creeley, and Language-related experimentalists such as Charles Bernstein, Ron Silliman, and Susan Howe. Electronic writing, like previous instances of writing, engages the double "mission" of writing evident in some of this experimental poetry: to varying degrees, writing is about a subject, but also about the medium through which it is transmitted.
Scott Rettberg - 01.07.2013 - 12:22
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The Strategic Pursuit of Collective IQ
The Strategic Pursuit of Collective IQ
Scott Rettberg - 02.07.2013 - 10:47
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Hypertext and Our Collective Destiny
Bush considered the plight of a researcher deluged with inaccessible information. He proposed the MEMEX, a machine to rapidly access, and allow random links between, pieces of information. Networks and computers have since allowed us to exceed even that far-sighted vision in terms of speed and convenience. However, we have not seen dramatic advances in our ability to solve political problems, to manage large organizations, or to magnify our group intuition.
We must do more than empower the individual. We must allow people and machines interacting together to behave in new ways as a mass. Now that we can make trails though our information, we must create a substrate in which these trails will grow into an increasingly meaningful whole, rather than a tangled mass. We and our documents are capable of operating together as a large machine but not as a large mind. Groups of all sizes must acquire gifts of intuition, correlation and invention which we associate normally with people rather than machines, before we can rise to Bush's challenge to mankind to "grow in the wisdom of race experience", rather than "perish in conflict".
(Source: Author's abstract)
Scott Rettberg - 02.07.2013 - 11:00
