Anybody else notice that Aarseth criticized the use of interactivity to describe video games. I really found this interesting because we so often use this term to describe these pieces of new media ( Read more... )

So it seems we really want to debate whether or not video games are narratives or not this week ( Read more... )

So I used to strongly believe in the idea of video games being narrative but after reading the first part of the Ryan reading I can actually see a valid argument for why they aren't narrative ( Read more... )

So after reading Donna Haraway's feminist/new media rant I felt that I should be ashamed to be a male who owns a computer ( Read more... )

So I guess I'll be really unoriginal and lay out the basic chronicle, mimesis, and plot elements in Time Code ( Read more... )

I think it interesting that many digital films are gradually eliminating the need for a real live author ( Read more... )

If you think about it, print was a record of the past, while early film and live broadcasts attempted to record the present. Now digital filmmaking attempts to record another version of reality, but from a retrospective viewpoint. After all to use digital software you have to first record live action footage and then add in CGI effects. This ( Read more... )

So after reading both the Ryan and Manovich reading I thought I'd offer my take on these selections ( Read more... )

So I was interested in whether or not websites can really count as narratives.

Wheres the story in an informative website such as the departmentofenergy.org?

Ryan talks about the multimedia aspect of this, but I find it hard to consider some types of websites narratives.

-Ross

Ryan discusses in this week's reading "reactivity versus interactivity ( Read more... )