Week 6: A jumble of symposium notes

• How does hypertext relate to storytelling in different media formats?
• Youtube’s incorpoartation of annotation to incorporate visual media (not particularly successful)
• Hypertextual video (Korsakow)
• Non linear storytelling strategies
• Korsakov is navigated through the choices you make (short videos), randomness, take away the linearity we experience stories in a different way
• Hypertexual – flashes of moments (London opening ceremony) if not hypertext it is an approximation of hypertexual experience
• Hypertext gives an archeology
• Hypertext – “It is about small parts and how they’re connected”-Adrian.
• Multiple points of connection are always available to the maker and the viewer
• It teaches us to think about the joining of small pieces in multiple ways.
• Likened to music – repetition (chorus), rhythm, poetic form

• Do others only validate the work we publish online once it is viewed/consumed?
• What about personal journal/diaries?
• Help us to make sense of our ideas
• Before your exhibit a painting it doesn’t have a viewing, that’s not a reason not the paint…
• Issue of quantity – is the wrong question in Network Media.
• Write for the audience you imagine, and if you do it well, the audience will arrive.
• Structure emerges through practice (writing and doing stuff)
• ‘Links’ are economic transactions.

• Do you think the digitalization of literary texts and the use of the E-reader will eventually replace the physical book completely?
• Early days
• Vinyl – CD, theatre – movies, retail – online shopping
• It needs to be beautiful, special things for people to choose them over the cheaper, more convenient, instant transaction.
• The iPad and computer storage
• Environmental footprint of printing on paper
• Textbooks (lugging to school)

But what about?

• Sentimental, romantized notion of holding a book in your hand, tangible, gifts?