Reading and Writing in Cyberspace

Computer-based interactive fiction creates new roles for the reader, writer, and publisher. Students will use various hypertext software systems to create individual and group hyperfiction texts. We will explore the theoretical and practical implications for software development, story construction, literary theory, cognition, and human development, and the role of the Internet

Hypertext is a technology that allows writers and readers to construct and follow multiple paths through networks of writing spaces containing text graphics, and/or sound recordings - thus altering conventions of reading and writing associated with the fixed arrangement of the printed page. According to Jay Bolter, hypertext is "Changing the relationship of the author to the text and of both author and text to the reader.

This course is expected to appeal to students interested in fiction writing, software development, literary theory, and/or the psychology of cognition. - CS751.80 Syllabus

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