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Quick aside
A note on why I've been so elusive on this internet of ours all week: on Saturday I started feeling a bit "woozy" and one hour later I was bent over the toilet at work. I had a temperature of 103 until basically yesterday. I had a tough time moving around out of bed, combination of tremendous weakness and splitting headache. I did get to finish ( Read more... ) -
Co-author
Ryan writes that "The fact that the system of IF rewrites most of the player's input seriously dampens the claim that interactivity turns the reader into a coauthor," and I completely agree. I'd say that player-as-coauthor is not a claim that can be viably made ( Read more... ) -
Space = Mine
Not the topic that Dr. Foys wanted us to post on, but I thought what Emma brought up in class regarding customization of how she views her text related very much to...I think it was Ong, who said that with the advent of print also came highly personalized reading. Well, I think his words were more along the lines of "personal privacy" or "word ( Read more... ) -
Damn girl! You so ________!
I found myself wondering about characterization in regard to two quotations by Abbott:
"No character can match the complexity and changeableness of people as they really are -- then all characterization, however 'round,' involves some degree of flattening"
And
"Are human beings capable of characterizing without the use of types?"
I'd like to apply ( Read more... ) -
More Ryan stuff - Fictional Facts
On page 49 of the Ryan reading for this (last?) week, she quotes Northrop Frye as saying "Historians may not like to think of their work as translations of facts into fictions; but this is one of the effects of their works." I believe Ross addressed a similar facet of the reading regarding how we transform all facts into a narrative so that we can ( Read more... ) -
Participation
Somewhat of a "hee hee" moment when the title of this entry is exactly the category I get credit in for making it. It is a different type of participation that I'm interested in, though. After reading through the Snow reading, he said something after being asked the name of his new film that piqued my interest, "In the new film I am thinking ( Read more... ) -
Distinction of Myth and Fiction
Glancing back over Ryan's thoughts pertaining to the differences between Myth and Fiction, it seemed to me that the difference between the two genres was how many people believed in them. The difference between Myth and fiction is that fiction invites people to imagine, whereas myths are supposedly truths that people do not dispute, because they ( Read more... ) -
Pictures as Fiction
If I was doing the Ryan reading correctly, on page 36 when she was discussing fiction as a transmedial concept, Walton's counter-point to pictures being capable of inducing belief was that "in order to recognize a picture as representing something--lets say, a cow--we must imagine ourselves facing and seeing a cow. Since what we are actually ( Read more... ) -
Wednesday Update
Woohoo snow today school was canceled yay now we don't have to do wo...wait oh shit how are we going to make up what we missed?
NEED MOAR DIGITAL NARRATIVES PLZ TIA!
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Innovations
I just finished reading Ong's Orality and Literacy passage and it's a very inspiring piece of work. Not inspiring in the way someone overcoming adversity is, but rather inspiring in the "what is possible" sense. Usually when I would consider what print brought to the world, I would think in one category: wider distribution because of higher ( Read more... )