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1. Digital Media

   The chapter takes readers through a semester of teaching narrative-based electronic literature works, including interactive fiction, storyspace hypertexts, web hypertexts, email fiction and interactive web-based narratives.

   Scott Rettberg - 13.01.2011 - 15:24

2. Canonizing Hypertext: Explorations and Constructions

   from the publisher: Description This innovative monograph focuses on a contemporary form of computer-based literature called 'literary hypertext', a digital, interactive, communicative form of new media writing. Canonizing Hypertext combines theoretical and hermeneutic investigations with empirical research into the motivational and pedagogic possibilities of this form of literature. It focuses on key questions for literary scholars and teachers: How can literature be taught in such a way as to make it relevant for an increasingly hypermedia-oriented readership? How can the rapidly evolving new media be integrated into curricula that still seek to transmit ‘traditional’ literary competence? How can the notion of literary competence be broadened to take into account these current trends? This study, which argues for hypertext’s integration in the literary canon, offers a critical overview of developments in hypertext theory, an exemplary hypertext canon and an evaluation of possible classroom applications.
   Table of Contents
   Introduction
   1. Hypertextual Ontologies
   2. Hypertext and the Question of Canonicity

   Eric Dean Rasmussen - 22.02.2011 - 16:34

3. Review of From Papyrus to Hypertext: Toward the Universal Digital Library

   In forty pithy essays, the author considers technological innovations that have transformed writing, altering the activity of reading and the processing of texts, individually and collectively. . . . The book's fragmentary organization--the adroit syntheses can be read in any order--makes it exceptionally accessible . . . for the born-digital generation. . . . Essential.

   Eric Dean Rasmussen - 24.03.2011 - 15:57

4. Hypertext and Cognition

   The recent evolution of western societies has been characterized by an increasing emphasis on information and communication. As the amount of available information increases, however, the user -- worker, student, citizen -- faces a new problem: selecting and accessing relevant information. More than ever it is crucial to find efficient ways for users to interact with information systems in a way that prevents them from being overwhelmed or simply missing their targets. As a result, hypertext systems have been developed as a means of facilitating the interactions between readers and text. In hypertext, information is organized as a network in which nodes are text chunks (e.g., lists of items, paragraphs, pages) and links are relationships between the nodes (e.g., semantic associations, expansions, definitions, examples -- virtually any kind of relation that can be imagined between two text passages). Unfortunately, the many ways in which these hypertext interfaces can be designed has caused a complexity that extends far beyond the processing abilities of regular users.

   Jill Walker Rettberg - 27.06.2013 - 13:01

5. HyperRhetoriods: An Undergraduate Course in Hyperfiction

   This brief hypertext is a narrative about the design, assignments, and results of that course. The largest section contains my commentary about Student Responses to the course with references to student Online Learning Records and their course evaluations (more complete samples are also included). Though no formal arguments are made, it is implicit in the narrative that:

   Hypertext provides a valuable tool for teaching writing and reading
   Collaboration and student independence (owning their own learning) are vital aspects of the learning milieu
   Theories of distributed cognition, situated learning, and learning as an ecology provide important pedagogical models
   One need not focus on "teaching the technology" in order to teach in a c-a classroom.
   The Online Learning Record is an especially significant tool for the development of both student and teacher.

   Cheryl Ball - 21.08.2013 - 11:48