. generative procedural system – heart of hypertext and networked

• Interactive Documentary – still a documentary, just in a different form.
• genre is never just about textual form
• All stories have to make truth claims.
• engaging in truth claims about THE world!
• Authors cannot control interpretation of what they write – eg – Bible — They can in a small way.
• we interpret texts – not authors or directors –
• magical thinking
• multi-linear – speculative!
• causality
• Communication is a gamble – no guarantees what we think and intend to get across will actually work.
• context cannot survive – time changes meaning in many cases.