lecture eight notes

Computer-mediated Textuality-Narrative, Author, Knowledge, Self and Power
*Hypertext
Hypermedia includes images, sound, animation and other forms of data.
*The end of books
*Subject of Interest 1: Narrative and Non-linearity
Many critics and hypertext authors have described art work as being "non-linear". Author has predetermined the text of each individual lexia.
*Subject of Interest 2: "The Death of the Author"?
*Subject of Interest 3: The Absence of an End?
*Hypertext Pedagogy
*Cybertext: self-changing text, scriptions and traversal functions are controlled by an immanent cybernetic agent, mechanical or human.
*The murky history of MUDs and MOOs
Multi-user Dungeon(MUD)is one of the most widely studied of cybertext, which is described as " a new kind of virtual parlor game and a new form of communication' based on a computer program that enabled many people to simultaneously" navigate, converse and build... a new form of collaborative literature" together.
"Adventure" program-MUD1 program-Tiny MUD program-multi-author program.
*Subject of Interest 4: Identity
Multi-user programs are one of the most studied phenomenon of the early internet.
*Subject of Artistic Interest 5: Community and Power