In response to the question posed in symposium six, ‘have internet users lost a sense of privacy?’, my immediate answer is yes, definitely! A quick scroll through Facebook or Twitter makes this pretty clear. You see users sharing every aspect… Continue Reading
Upon reading the first extract from The End of Books — Or Books Without End?: Reading Interactive Narratives I was instantly reminded of the Pottermore website launched by J.K. Rowling in 2011. The site provides an interactive way to experience… Continue Reading
Mitch compares interactive narratives to print narratives, in terms of sequence, interactivity and passivity. Gemma compares the idea of having to be ‘untaught’ things from school to when she used to take dance lessons and criticises the lack of freedom… Continue Reading
I was able to put some of my HTML skills to the test this week at work when I was uploading some articles onto our website. One of our articles needed to have a table in it and upon loading… Continue Reading
Following this week’s symposium and the idea that schools are like factories, I found this talk by Ken Rogers. He notes the current system of education was conceived for a different age — that it was conceived in the intellectual… Continue Reading
James explains why he enjoys making documentaries and is excited about finding a possible career path to follow. Sarah reflects on the Ted Nelson reading and hypertext’s role in the new age of computer text systems and the need for… Continue Reading
My first thought when reading the Ted Nelson extract is that hypertext is much better suited to an online platform than a book. It seems much more practical for a book to be presented in a sequential order, instead of… Continue Reading
This week in the symposium we discussed the validity of things online. I think there are a number of factors that can decrease or increase the supposed validity of things you read online, but in my opinion, the most important… Continue Reading
Having studied piracy and copyright last year as part of a communications subject, I was introduced to the work of Lawrence Lessig. I referred to Lessig’s book Free Culture: How Big Media Uses Technology and the Law to Lock Down Culture and… Continue Reading
After reading the extract from David Weinberger’s Small Pieces Loosely Joined: A Unified Theory of the Web, I began to consider whether the web makes me more or less social. This question can be difficult to answer, considering I have… Continue Reading