Communication Studies/Digital
Media Resources
Compiled and edited by Karla Tonella
Hypertext Theory
- @Subversive:
.Dis-Ordering Our Narrative, Our Text, Ourselves
- by David K. Balcom
- A List Apart: For
People Who Make Websites
- A List Apart Magazine (ISSN: 1534-0295) explores the design, development,
and meaning of web content, with a special focus on techniques and benefits
of designing with web standards.
- As
We May Think - Vannevar Bush
- A reproduction in HTML of the original 1945 Atlantic Monthly article.
Alternate
location1 - Alternate
location2
- Design Issues: Architectural
and Philosophical Points
- These statements of architectural principle explain the thinking behind
the specifications. These are personal notes by Tim Berners-Lee: they are
not endorsed by W3C. They are aimed at the technical community, to explain
reasons, provide a framework to provide consistency for for future developments,
and avoid repetition of discussions once resolved.
- Communication
Theory
- "An index of names and resources addressing theoretical aspects of
Communications from a variety of disciplines within the social sciences." Compiled
by Martin Ryder, U.Colorado at Denver School of Education.
- Cybertext Theory and Literary Studies, A User's Manual
- "In contrast to the dead ends of hypertext theory and its posthuman derivatives,
cybertext theory addresses the unique dual materiality of cybernetic sign
production and gives us an accurate and heuristic description of how the
textual medium works. " --Markku Eskelinen
- The Electronic Labyrinth
- A study of the implications of hypertext for creative writers by Christopher
Keep, Tim McLaughlin and Robin Parmar.
- How Interactive Can Fiction Be?
- Michel Chaouli. Critical Inquiry (31:3) [Spring 2005] , p.599-617.
"Chaouli explains why readers of contemporary fiction are not drawn to the "interactive" fictional
texts one finds on the web and in other electronic form. Among other things,
she stresses that the question of why potential readers of hyperfiction decline
to become actual ones touches on matters far beyond the scope of electronic
textuality, for to learn why hyperfiction maintains only a loose hold on
one's attention is learn what grips a person about traditional, printed literature
in ways not obvious from a perspective lodged in print."
- The Heresy
of Hypertext: Fear and Anxiety in the Late Age of Print
- John Tolva. 1995. "I propose to answer this question [how hypertext
will transform our notion of reading] by exploring some fears and anxieties
generated by the interaction of the print-based world and its emerging digital
counterpart."
- HyperCafe:
Narrative and Aesthetic Properties of Hypervideo
- Nitin "Nick" Sawhney, Ian Smith. aper presented at Hypertext
'96: Seventh ACM Conference on Hypertext
- Hypertext Kitchen
- Magazine sponsored by Eastgate "We connect hypertext people. Readers,
writers, scientists, developers: everyone who needs to stay in touch with
the future of writing."
- Hypertext Now
- Essays on Hypertext theory on the Eastgate Web site.
- Hypertext Theory and WebDev in the Composition Classroom
- Michael J. Cripps, York College, CUNY. "… this hypertext explores what
it means to teach students to compose research essays as hypertexts."
- Immersion
vs. Interactivity: Virtual Reality and Literary Theory - Marie-Laure
Ryan
- Interactive
Technology and the Remediation of the Subject of Writing
- Michelle Kendrick - Configurations 9.2 (2001) 231-251
[requires UI ID to access]
- KAIROS: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy
- "In Kairos, we publish " webtexts," which are
texts authored specifically for publication on the World Wide Web. These
webtexts include scholarly examinations of large-scale issues related to
special topics, individual and collaborative reviews of books and media,
news and announcements of interest, interactive exchanges about previous
Kairos publications, and extended interviews with leading scholars."
- Mark
America's Oz Blog
- Mark Amerika is professor of digital art at U Colorado. "It is not
a web site per se, it is not even writing if you prefer to see it that
way, but writing seems well-suited to the Idea of Blog, as does code. Blog
is more a kind of progressive codework (as lived reality) than manifested
outcome.
- Notes
Toward an Unwritten Non-Linear Electronic Text - Michael Joyce
- Essays on the
Philosophy of Technology
- Organized by author. Includes essays by Adorno, Baudrillard, Benjamin,
etc.
- Patterns Of Hypertext
- Mark Bernstein "This paper describes a variety of patterns of linkage
observed in actual hypertexts. Hypertext structure does not reside exclusively
in the topology of links nor in the language of individual nodes, and so
we must work toward a pattern language through both topological and rhetorical
observation." Reprinted from Proceedings of Hypertext '98, Frank Shipman,
Elli Mylonas, and Kaj Groenback, eds, ACM, New York.
- Pioneer
Spirits and the Lure of Technology: Vannevar Bush's Desk, Theodor Nelson's
World
- Andreas Kitzman - Configurations 9.3 (2001) 381-412
[requires UI ID to access]
- Politexts,
Hypertexts, and Other Cultural Formations in the Late Age of Print
- Nancy Kaplan
- The
Rationale of HyperText
- "In this essay I will focus primarily on a particular feature of
literary works -- their physical character, whether audial or visible.
I shall be pointing out why these features are important in a literary
point of view and also sketching certain practical means for elucidating
these textual features. " --Jerome McGann
- A Selected
Bibliography of Secondary Material on Hypertext, Text-Based Computing,
and Related Things (like the Printing Press...) - John Tolva
- The
Shadow of an Informand - Stuart Moulthrop
- The
Sofasphere II Project - stevec
- Technocriticism
and Hypernarrative edited by N. Katherine Hayles (Modern
Fiction Studies 43.3, Fall 1997)
- TechNoCulture Discussion
on Hypertext (9/94)
- TechnoPoetics of Connection
- Susan Antliz, KAIROS 6:2 "A preliminary definition of "technopoetics" is
that it seeks to apply aspects of literary analysis to the Web or other
online environments, but also extends beyond the verbal to include the visual,
multimedia, and cognitive/intellectual aspects of the Web."
- Tekkalogue: A Chronicle of Innovative
New Media
- "TEKKAlogue is a weblog supplement to TEKKA, a subscription-based
Web magazine about enjoying new media and software aesthetics.
… TEKKAlogue offers tidbits of fresh and interesting news on hypertext,
new media, art and technology. TEKKAlogue is itself an experiment
with the weblog as narrative form. Embedded in this blog is an evolving
story, composed by contributing characters. TEKKAlogue seeks to create
a conversation, a critical community."
- 10 Tips on Writing the Living Web
- Mark Bernstein. Published in Writing , April 2002.
- Terence Harpold's bibliography
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- To Type or Not to Type (Links)
- William Cole. Donut Age -- short but dense unless you already
know what he's talking about. See Also: Link Types at w3.org
- Toward
a Theory of Hypertextual Design - Kathleen Burnett
- Towards
a Furious Philosophy of the Discrete - Oliver Hockenhull
- Traveling
in the Breakdown Lane: A Principle of Resistance for Hypertext -
Stuart Moulthrop
- Ut Pictura
Hyperpoesis: Spatial Form, Visuality, and the Digital Word -
John Tolva
- Web Architecture
from 50,000 Feet
- "This document attempts to be a high-level view of the architecture
of the World Wide Web. It is not a definitive complete explanation, but
it tries to enumerate the architectural decisions which have been made,
show how they are related, and give references to more detailed material
for those interested." --Tim Berners-Lee
- Writing
of a Butterfly - Oliver Hockenhull see also: "Digital
Earth, Volume 1"
- You
Say You Want a Revolution: Hypertext and the Laws of Media -
Stuart Moulthrop
-
Weblogs and Blogging
- Blogging Places Locating Pedagogy in the Whereness of Weblogs
- Tim Lindgren. KAIROS 10.1 Fall 2005. "This webtext examines the
pedagogical relevance of blogging from the perspective of those committed
to place-based pedagogies. For them, the most pressing concern is, 'In
what ways can blogging help foster a deeper sense of place and encourage
reflection on the relationship between place and identity?'"
- Weblogs: A History and Perspective
- Blood, Rebecca. Rebecca's Pocket. 07 September 2000. 16 September 2005.
- Weblogs and Journalism in an Age of Participatory Media
- Blood, Rebecca. Rebecca's Pocket. September 2003. 07 January 2005.
- When Blogging Goes Bad: A Cautionary Tale About Blogs, Email Lists, Discussion,
and Interaction(1)
- Steven D. Krause. KAIROS 9:1. "This text, which has grown out of my own
experiences and a presentation I gave at the 2003 Computers and Writing Conference,
offers a reason and a way to NOT use blogs in the writing classroom."
Places to visit that served as a source for some of these papers
- Anima: Arts
Network for Integrated Media Applications
-
CTheory
-
Hypermedia Readings - IATH University of Virginia in Charlottesville
- Perforations
-
Postmodern Culture Rhizome
- Works and Days
(Indiana University of Pennsylvania)
- One issue so far: Cyberspaces: Pedagogy and Performance on the Electronic
Frontier from 1995
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Last checked or updated
November 26, 2005
