Unlecture thoughts to speculate
Video games can be considered an interactive narrative, however games are not about storytelling, you don’t win stories you read them. A text is anything that communicates meaning or has an intention. Hypertext could be a post cinematic writing practise,…
The 80/20 Rule
Outside academia Pareto is best known for one of his empirical observations. An avid gardener, he noticed that 80 percent of his peas were produced by only 20 percent of the peapods. A careful observer of economic inequalities, be saw…
Basis: A small and clustered world
From Barabasi’s Small World: Clustering in society is something we understand intuitively. Humans have an inborn desire to form cliques and clusters that offer familiarity, safety, and intimacy. However, a property of the social network is only of interest to…
Rich Get Richer
This reading compares the Web to the Hollywood acting community. How they both display power law degree distribution. This is explained by the rich get richer phenomenon present in most networks which could be the reason for power laws spotted…
The Long Tail- Chris Anderson
Anderson gives example of an entirely new economic model for the media and entertainment industries, one that is just beginning to show its power. Unlimited selection is revealing truths about what consumers want and how they want to get it…
The Small World Problem summary
Reading: Six Degrees- Duncan J Watts One section that stood out to me in this reading was Milgram’s fascination with networking. Social psychologist Stanley Milgram details his experiment he conducted in 1967. He was fascinated with the unresolved hypothesis circulating…
Rap, Hip-Hop and Hypertext?
Brian’s comparison in this weeks Unlecture was quite corny and really showed his age but made perfect sense. When Rap and Hip Hop first arrived Brian was confused and very doubtful of the new genre of music. He questioned it’s…
The UnConference Conversation
HOW DOES HYPERTEXT RELATE TO STORYTELLING IN DIFFFRERNT MEDIA FORMATS? Hypertext gives an archaeology, it is dated but present. All about small parts and how they are connected. Navigation is trivial, it is actually about the structure, the formal relations…