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1. From Papyrus to Hypertext: Toward the Universal Digital Library

   Reflections and predictions of technology's effect on reading and writing In this study, Christian Vandendorpe examines how digital media and the Internet have changed the process of reading and writing, significantly altering our approaches toward research and reading, our assumptions about audience and response, and our theories of memory, legibility, and context. Reflecting on the full history of the written word, Vandendorpe provides a clear overview of how materiality makes a difference in the creation and interpretation of texts. Surveying the conventions of reading and writing that have appeared and disappeared in the Internet's wake, Vandendorpe considers various forms of organization, textual design, the use (and distrust) of illustrations, and styles of reference and annotation. He also examines the novel components of digital texts, including hyperlinks and emoticons, and looks at emergent, collaborative genres such as blogs and wikis, which blur the distinction between author and reader. Looking to the future, reading and writing will continue to evolve based on the current, contested trends of universal digitization and accessibility.

   Eric Dean Rasmussen - 24.03.2011 - 15:37

2. 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

3. As We May Think

   As We May Think

   Scott Rettberg - 25.03.2011 - 11:31

4. Computer Lib: You can and must understand computers now / Dream Machines: New freedoms through computer screens—a minority report

   Computer Lib: You can and must understand computers now / Dream Machines: New freedoms through computer screens—a minority report

   Scott Rettberg - 25.03.2011 - 12:19

5. Literary Hypertext: The Passing of the Golden Age

   29 October 1999 Keynote Address, Digital Arts and Culture Atlanta, Georgia (This speech was also published in Feed in 2000.) Coover's DAC Keynote address discussed the transition from the "golden age" of narrative-driven, text-dominated hypertext fiction, mainly produced in Storyspace, to an era dominated by the practices and attention spans of the World Wide Web, and a new focus on the image.

   Scott Rettberg - 25.03.2011 - 16:18

6. A Subjective Chronology of Cybertext, Hypertext, and Electronic Writing

   A timeline of events and publications relating to creative work in hypertext and new media, admittedly subjective, but providing a view of the field as seen by one of the pioneers in the field of electronic literature.

   Jill Walker Rettberg - 04.04.2011 - 20:27

7. "Uncle Roger", an Online Narrabase

   Uncle Roger is a "narrabase" or narrative database. It was first told as an online serial on Art Com Electronic Network (ACEN) and then was published as an interactive online database on ACEN. It is also available as computer software for both Apple II and IBM-compatible computers. The narrabase form uses a computer database to build up levels of meaning. The artist explains how this form evolved from her visual books and her information databases. She discusses the story and structure of Uncle Roger and describes how the story was told and published in an online community. In the conclusion she discusses the future of computer literature.

   (Source: author's abstract for paper)

   Jill Walker Rettberg - 04.04.2011 - 20:49

8. No More Teacher's Dirty Looks

   Original publication info: Computer Decisions. 1970. Rpt. in Computer Lib/Dream Machines. 1974. Rpt. in The New Media Reader. 2003.

   Scott Rettberg - 18.04.2011 - 13:06

9. Hyperlinking in 3D Interactive, Multimedia Performances

   Dene Grigar discusses ways in which hyperlinks are utilized in three-dimensional multimedia performance works that offer a narrative or poetic focus. In the new spaces of three-dimensional performance environments, hyperlinking can be incorporated as a performative element into the work and therefore always makes a purposeful act necessary for the performance to unfold. Grigar argues that hyperlinking may denote a change of scene, the progression of a poem’s instantiation or the evocation of musical notes comprising a composition.

   (Source: Beyond the Screen, introduction by Jörgen Schäfer and Peter Gendolla)

   Scott Rettberg - 23.05.2011 - 15:36

10. Gutenberg Galaxy Revis(it)ed: A Brief History of Combinatory, Hypertextual and Collaborative Literature from the Baroque Period to the Present

    "Gutenberg Galaxy Revis(it)ed: A Brief History of Combinatory, Hypertextual and Collaborative Literature from the Baroque Period to the Present"

    Literature in computer-based media cannot be contemplated without a long literary tradition.
    This article aims at substantiating this assumption with numerous examples of combinatory,
    hypertextual and collaborative texts from German literary history since baroque
    times. Therewith it provides us with a historical basis in order to work out the common
    features and differences that with computers have entered literary texts.

    Source: author's abstract in book publication

    Jörgen Schäfer - 28.06.2011 - 14:58

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