Archive for the 'Poetics' Category
Elit 2.0 (a guide to literary works on social software)
1 Comment Published by Mark Marino July 1st, 2008 in HCTI, Poetics, Features, Text Art, Software.How do you teach Web 2.0? With elit, of course. This post offers an elit work for each tool.
A number of my colleagues (myself included) attempt to teach courses around Web 2.0 technologies. The idea is that if you can just get students to blog, bookmark, twitter, annotate, wiki, wink, and aggregate, […]
Charles Deemer wants a hypertheater, ACM HT08
2 Comments Published by Mark Marino June 19th, 2008 in Poetics, Features, Conferences.[This continues the experiment of live blogging conferences, although here I will present some documentation of a workshop and open up this post as a conversation space for those who are attending the conference and far beyond. ACM Hypertext 2008, Pittsburgh]
Charles Deemer presented his work “Changing Key” as an exploration of interactive narratives. […]
Chatbots for Native Tongues: Interview Monica Peters
10 Comments Published by Mark Marino January 27th, 2008 in HCTI, Poetics, Researchers, bots, Features, Education, Interviews.When Alan Turing proposed his test, there was no question that the computers would be tested based on their ability to perform in the same language as the interrogators. As a result, the test was also a bit of an English exam — and indeed many bots fail on the basis of their grammar and, […]
new hypertext: a little show of hands
0 Comments Published by Mark Marino January 10th, 2008 in HCTI, poetry, hyperfic, Poetics, Features, Text Art, Criticism, Publications, Software.The latest version of Hyperrhiz: New Media Cultures (Winter ‘07, 04) hit the webstands recently, and in it you’ll find “a little show of hands,” a short story adaptation excerpted from my adaptive hypertext novella “a show of hands.” The story continues focuses on a Mexican-American family in Los Angeles and the forces that […]
Writing that Gets in Your Facebook
6 Comments Published by Mark Marino October 4th, 2007 in poetry, hyperfic, CYOA, Poetics, Features, games, Text Art, Criticism, Software, Social, Multi-Modal.Facebook as a Genre
As students and, increasingly, faculty move into Facebook, the slew of applications catering to their needs have been slewing fast, sent forth by the release of the API back in May. While many of these merely add on a new infective meme to the wildly-popular social network, […]