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ENG 263
What notes did we take?
We read selections from Dene Grigar's text focused on the connections between digital texts and stories.
storytelling
oral modes of expression
storytelling
Mark Tuner: Story is a "basic principle of mind."
multimedia
Analyzing form
N. Katherine Hayles:
"The physical form of the...artifact always affects what the words (and other semiotic components) mean."
Texts produced for the computer medium have an "electronic textuality."
They depend on "sound, animation, motion, video, kinesthetic involvement, and software functionality..."
form
When we analyze electronic literature, we must consider "what we see, hear, touch, and gesture."
Mediums
traditional plot structure
Structure
...but electronic texts afford MULTILINEARITY
If a text offers us choice, it offers us AGENCY.
agency
Procedures built into a system define the level at which the user participates in a story's flow and outcome.
INTERACTIVITY is the "codified rendering of responsive behaviors."
COMPLEX INTERACTIVITY means your decisions affect the outcome of the text.
MULTIMEDIA can be a combination of words, images, sound, and movement.
AGENCY is the degree of choice a user has in how they interact with the multimedia.
analyzing agency
AGENCY is the degree of choice a user has in how they interact with the multimedia.
Analyzing Agency
How do digital texts use the reader's agency as part of their storytelling?
media-specific analysis
How do you close-read an electronic text?
To do a media-specific analysis of a work of electronic literature, we must perform a close-reading of the text’s multiple levels. We must take note of the story and its traditional structures (plot, setting, characters), but we must also analyze the medium in which the story is told.