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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 [...] Here’s Calais’ new media venture We want to make all the world’s content more accessible, interoperable and valuable. Some call it Web 2.0, Web 3.0, the Semantic Web or the Giant Global Graph – we call our piece of it Calais. Calais is a rapidly growing toolkit of capabilities that allow you to readily incorporate state-of-the-art semantic [...] Covered the two basic models of communication this morning: linear and transactional models of communication. We also went over the 5 basic principles of new media: Numerical representation Used audio software to help illustrate these five concepts (a first). There was one excellent question asked about “changing” elements within a new media text: “doesn’t changing one element really change everything?” [...] John Moran stumped me last night with a seemingly simply idea. To scale a circle on a button press. Basically, this is a 4 part process: 1) make the objects and add them to the stage 2) create two events: a click event and an enterframe event 3) target the to-be-scaled object 4) set [...] What it is and what it ain’t. Stephanie Strickland poses some ideas towards (and away from) an e-literature aesthetic(s). Or something like that. Born Digital by Stephanie Strickland Worth comparing with Manovich’s five principles of [...] 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 [...] An interesting discussion began today in New Media Perspectives following our introduction to Barthes‘ ideas regarding the readerly and writerly. This overview shifted to a discussion of hypertext with a reading of Richard Pryll’s Lies (a work from 1994 that still stands as a great introduction to the idea of hypertext.) This was followed by a more [...] Jessica Sanner finds Rob Bryanton. His book website, put together in flash, is a good example of hypermedia concepts we’ll be exploring in New [...] This morning I demo’ed two short works of IF: Nine Points and The Legend of Grammy’s Apple. Both serve as demonstrations and tutorials of how to play and interact with works of interactive fiction (text adventures.) For a more detailed explanation of playing IF, read this useful overview. After that, we discussed the importance of creating a [...] This is something to look into: SnapPages. I don’t know a lot about webpage creation tools, such as SnapPages and the product from Google, but it’s well worth the time to play with the software. That’s what we do: play, explore, and wonder at the usefulness. Jess has found an interesting relationship between Harold and PictoChat: David Andrade has a wonderful post on Vannevar Bush: Here’s an interesting entry from Nat Torkington of O’reilly on the subject of ubiquitous computing. He draws from an interview with William Gibson, focusing on this quote: One of the things our grandchildren will find quaintest about us is that we distinguish the digital from the real, the virtual from the real. In the future, that will [...] Check out these apps [...] |
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