This week’s reading was all about DIGITAL Narrative.
Remember those “Choose your own adventure” stories where you got to create the ending?
At the end of every few pages you had the choice to make a character do one of three actions…
“Pete runs to the basement…turn to page 56” etc
At the end of every few pages you had the choice to make a character do one of three actions…
“Pete runs to the basement…turn to page 56” etc
SO what does a choose your own adventure narrative look like in the digital age?
These are my KEY takeaway points from the reading:
- Every digital narrative doesn’t take form of hypertext
- Michale Joyce was the first major author of hypertext fiction
- Born out of desire to create multiple stories out of relatively small amount of text
- It uses linking to grant the author even more power
- Takes range of forms based on:
Reader choice, intervention and empowerment
Inclusion of extralinguistic texts (images, motion, sound)
Complexity of network structure
Degrees of multiplicity and variation in literary elements (plot, setting, characterisation)
AND finally this seems to sum it all up: “A fictional text must be stretched, skewered, and sliced if it is to exploit the freedoms and accept the responsibilities offered by hypertext technology and its new writing spaces”
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