Reading Week #5 – Narratology Philosophy

Hypertext Narrative seems like a very dense topic and is one that I can’t fully grasp. There are a couple of forms of hyperlink narrative that i have picked up on including one that relies on hyperlinks to express further information. And others that use hyperlinks to solely provide sequence. Most hyperlink narrative nowadays incorporate the first form. Facebook for instance is a breeding ground for hyperlinks, its where hyperlinks go on vacation to meet other hyperlinks. Whenever someone writes a status or puts up a picture, most people are inclined to view the persons profile (picture hyperlink), and find out more about them. The Michael Joyce quote sums this up pretty well ‘the desire to create multiple stories out of a relatively small amount of alphanumeric text provided a major force driving in writing afternoon’. 

Twitter more so can be related to this as it has a word limit which forces people to try and tell their story through hyperlinks. I am sitting on the fence with my thoughts towards the idea of hyperlink narrative, it is something that i partake in everyday and i use it to great advantage but the concept of it being a necessity in cases such as twitter doesn’t really give you choice.

All in all the reading was difficult and I skimmed through it because i thought it went sideways a little but i still managed to write something up worth writing i hope

Also Ryan Gossling doesn’t want his breakfast