Hypertext (semiotics)

Abstract: 1. Introduction: Oprah Winfrey and the Sociology of Culture2. The Success of a Self-Failed Woman3. Everyday Life as the Uncanny: The Oprah Winfrey Show as a New Cultural Genre4. Pain and Circuses5. The Hypertext of Identity6. Suffering and Self-Help as Global Forms of Identity7. The Sources and Resources of The Oprah Winfrey Show8. Toward an Impure Critique of Popular Culture9. Conclusion: Ordinary People, Extraordinary TelevisionNotesBibliographyIndex

Abstract: From the Publisher: In his widely acclaimed book Hypertext George P. Landow described a radically new information technology and its relationship to the work of such literary theorists as Jacques Derrida and Roland Barthes. Now Landow has brought together a distinguished group of authorities to explore more fully the implications of hypertextual reading for contemporary literary theory.

Abstract: New media poetry -- poetry composed, disseminated, and read on computers -- exists in various configurations, from electronic documents that can be navigated and/or rearranged by their "users" to kinetic, visual, and sound materials through online journals and archives like UbuWeb, PennSound, and the Electronic Poetry Center. Unlike mainstream print poetry, which assumes a bounded, coherent, and self-conscious speaker, new media poetry assumes a synergy between human beings and intelligent machines. The essays and artist statements in this volume explore this synergy's continuities and breaks with past poetic practices, and its profound implications for the future. By adding new media poetry to the study of hypertext narrative, interactive fiction, computer games, and other digital art forms, New Media Poetics extends our understanding of the computer as an expressive medium, showcases works that are visually arresting, aurally charged, and dynamic, and traces the lineage of new media poetry through print and sound poetics, procedural writing, gestural abstraction and conceptual art, and activist communities formed by emergent poetics. Contributors: Giselle Beiguelman, John Cayley, Alan Filreis, Loss Pequeno Glazier, Alan Golding, Kenneth Goldsmith, N. Katherine Hayles, Cynthia Lawson, Jennifer Ley, Talan Memmott, Adalaide Morris, Carrie Noland, Marjorie Perloff, William Poundstone, Martin Spinelli, Stephanie Strickland, Brian Kim Stefans, Barrett Watten, Darren Wershler-Henry

Abstract: 1. Introduction. - Ruth Page and Bronwen Thomas Part I: New Foundations 2. From Synesthesia to Multimedia: How to Talk about New Media Narrative - Daniel Punday 3. The Interactive Onion: Layers of User Participation in Digital Narrative Texts - Marie-Laure Ryan 4. Ontological Boundaries and Methodological Leaps: The Importance of Possible Worlds Theory for Hypertext Fiction (and Beyond) - Alice Bell 5. Seeing through the Blue Nowhere: On Narrative Transparency and New Media - Michael Joyce Part II: New Architectures 6. An Interactive Fiction System for Narrative Variation. - Nick Montfort 7. Digitized Corpora as Theory-Building Resource: New Methods for Narrative Inquiry. - Andrew Salway and David Herman 8. From (W)reader to Breather: Cybertextual De-intentionalisation and Kate Pullinger's Breathing Wall - Astrid Ensslin 9. Songlines in the Streets: Story Mapping with Itinerant Hypernarrative - Brian Greenspan 10. Narrative supplements: DVD and the idea of the "text" - Paul Cobley and Nick Haeffner Part III: New Practices 11. All Together Now: Hypertext, Collective Narratives, and Online Collective Knowledge Communities - Scott Rettberg 12. "Update Soon!" Harry Potter Fanfiction and Narrative as a Participatory Process - Bronwen Thomas 13. Blogging on the Body: Gender and Narrative. - Ruth Page 14. Using the Force: Lego Star Wars: The Video Game, Intertextuality, Narrative and Play. - James Newman and Iain Simons 15. Digital Narratives, Cultural Inclusion and Educational Possibility: Going New Places with Old stories in Elementary School - Heather Lotherington Glossary