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September 28

Today we discussed Roland Barthes and his concepts of readerly and writerly and how the concept of a writerly text have important connections with our study and discussion of new media.

Then we covered our definition of narrative which will play an important role for the rest of the semester.

We then used the online (hypertext) novel 253 [...]

[DN09] Scenes Part 02 – Cut Scenes

Here is the cut scene demonstration I did last Tuesday night: Continue reading [DN09] Scenes Part 02 – Cut Scenes

[DN09] Scenes and Regions Part 01

Here is the code for one of the examples I demonstrated last class: Continue reading [DN09] Scenes and Regions Part 01

[NMP09] Hypertext, Writerly, and Narrative

Today’s New Media Perspectives class continued our discussion on the forms, structures, and terminologies of hypertext with a different piece called 253 by Geoff Ryman.

253 is what I would call a more accessible piece of hypertext in that it presents people, places, and events in a more descriptive manner. It has a more traditional “writing” style [...]

Weather

It looks as if the weather won’t be working with us tomorrow for New Media Perspectives. If the college is closed, we will keep to our sequence for Monday as we want to proceed with as much sequence as possible. In the new media course sequence we want to work as sequentially as possible. [...]