Monday, April 03, 2006

the remediation of print

excerpt from Bolter's Writing Space: Computers, Hypertext, and the Remediation of Print(40-46)
excerpt from Landow's Hypertext 3.0: Critical Theory and New Media in an Era of Globilization (preface)

This week I am assigning each of you in pairs (mostly)to summarize a section of the reading for the week. Summarize as clearly as you can what the authors are saying. You may use quotations to illustrate. The assignments are below. Collaborate via classmail with your partner and submit one summary per pair.

Beginning with Hypertext as Remediation on page 40 of the handout, Alva and Baum with summarize up through the end of the first paragraph on 42 (ending with "mean new prosperity for our society.")

Delaney and Lantow: page 42, beginning with the second paragraph and ending on page 43 (ending with "Remediation is always an attempt to redefine these key cultural values.")

Lippleman and Mayweather: page 43, beginning with the first paragraph and ending with "what captures her is the expereience of moving through the story on a trajectory partly determined by her own choices...on page 44.

McGhghy and McGrath: beginning with The Old and the New in Hypertext (44) and ending with "better than writing for print" on page 45.

Mize and Prvnic page 45 the first paragraph"Understanding hypertext as the remediation of printed forms...through the end of the excerpt on 46.

Rapp and Ritch: beginning of Landow's preface to end of paragraph "electricity, telegraph, telephone, radio, television, cable television, and so on--brought on similar mythic claims" on xii.

Slossberg and Stanley: Where above group left off to end of first paragraph on xiii ("often producing effects that fundamentally differe from hypermedia."

Kersh: Where above group left off to end of article.