The New Media Reader - Noah Wardrip-Fruin and Nick Montfort, eds
Category: New Media
Author: Wardrip-Fruin, Noah and Montfort, Nick
Publication: Wardrip-Fruin, Noah and Montfort, Nick
Info: http://www.newmediareader.com/index.html
From the introduction toThe New Media Reader - Noah Wardrip-Fruin and Nick Montfort, eds.:
The new media field has been developing for more than 50 years. This reader collects the texts, videos, and computer programs—many of them now almost impossible to find—that chronicle the history and form the foundation of this still-emerging field. General introductions by Janet H. Murray (author of Hamlet on the Holodeck) and Lev Manovich (author of The Language of New Media), along with short introductions to each of the selections, place the works in their historical context and explain their significance.
The texts are from computer scientists, artists, architects, literary writers, interface designers, cultural critics, and individuals working across disciplines. They were originally published between World War II (when digital computing, cybernetic feedback, and early notions of hypertext and the Internet first appeared) and the emergence of the World Wide Web (when these concepts entered the mainstream of public life).
The CD accompanying the book contains examples of early games, digital art, independent literary efforts, software created at universities, and home-computer commercial software. Also on the CD is digitized video, documenting new media programs and artwork for which no operational version exists.
This Web site serves to provide an introduction to the New Media Reader for those who don't have a copy of it, although there are also resources provided here for those who have the book and CD: these include sample syllabi and an errata list. Also presented here are the tables of contents for the book and the CD, online excerpts from each (including their prefaces and introductions), and updates on recent news about and reviews of the project.
We describe the purpose of this book and CD in greater detail in "The New Media Reader, A User's Manual" (the book's preface) and in the CD's preface.
weblogs
Category: Instructional Technology
Author: Giles Turnbull
Publication: Giles Turnbull
Info: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/3804773.stm
An excellent article by Giles Turnbull for the BBC discusses weblogs in education
An after-school club for weblogging at Hangleton, has become so popular that nearly half the school turns up for some sessions.
The school's weblogs project has been so successful that it has just been shortlisted for a New Statesman New Media Award, an annual event highlighting the best web development in the UK.
Selected quotes:
"Children at Hangleton Junior School in Hove, Sussex, have been using weblogs in their spare time to learn more about things that interest them, but as a result their performance in class has improved."
"There's a degree of trust involved. They know that if they post anything they shouldn't, their weblog will be taken away from them."
"Rather than using a weblog as a platform for an individual voice, you can use it for a collaboration of many voices. A class of students doing a project on the environment might want to start a weblog about their local river; because it's online, it might attract interest from local residents and policy-makers too. The local community can be drawn in on something that, without the weblog, would have been isolated within the school."
"Who are we now? Western World Views & Hypertext Theory"
Category: Hyertext Theory
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Info: megan_kerr@hotmail.com
English Literature Honours dissertation, University of Cape Town: "Who are we now? Western World Views & Hypertext Theory"
The bibliography lists other URLs that were useful in the preparation of this dissertation.
The Interactive Syllabus - A Resource-based, Constructivist Approach To Learning
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Author: Sylvie L. F. Richards
Publication: Sylvie L. F. Richards
Info: http://ts.mivu.org/default.asp?show=article&id=1017
The interactive syllabus is an instructional design tool that attempts to solve some fundamental problems in course design and delivery.
Nancy G. Patterson, Phd
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Author: Patterson, Nancy G. Phd
Publication: Patterson, Nancy G. Phd
Info: http://www.npatterson.net/hypertexttheory.html
Nancy G. Patterson, Phd has compiled a list of useful links to Hypertext Theory sites.
HyperText Places
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Author: Rockwell, Geoffrey
Publication: Rockwell, Geoffrey
Info: http://cheiron.mcmaster.ca/~htp/
Published in 1998, HyperText Places is a collection of annotated links to useful sites about hypertext and hypertext authoring.
Electric Language
Category: Hypertext Theory
Author: Hines, Susan C.
Publication: Hines, Susan C.
Info: http://pages.globetrotter.net/charro/HERMES5/heim.htm
Electric Language is a review by Susan C. Hines. It discusses Electric Language: A Philosophical Study of Word Processing by Michael Heim.
Jean Mason on Hyperwriting
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Author: Mason, Jean
Publication: Mason, Jean
Info: http://www.writinginstructor.com/hypertexts/mason/index.html
This "article" presents a selected portion of the findings of a two year study. Data was collected from a purposive sample of writers in the form of interviews, observations, correspondence, journals, and artifacts. A significant portion of that data was collected over the Internet using asynchronous and synchronous communication. The subsequent analysis and interpretation of that data offer new insight into how the writing process is affected in the unprecedented hypertextual writing space. Interpretations, implications, and speculations are framed within communication, writing, and hypertext theories. A new process model is presented.
Multimedia Effectiveness, Efficiency, Acess and Attitude
Category: Psychology
Author: Szabo, Michael Ph.D.
Publication: Szabo, Michael Ph.D.
Info: http://www.quasar.ualberta.ca/DRMIKE/Szabo/Cridala2000.html
The Abstract:
"Extensive research has been conducted on multimedia and the body of research on hypermedia is growing. This research is of value to educators of adults to assist in decision-making in the area of instructional technology applications. This paper examines research on selected components of instructional multimedia (IM) and hypermedia (IH): computer based instruction, static and dynamic visual displays, audio, color, screen design and hypermedia. The four criteria examined include achievement, learning efficiency, attitude and access to instruction. The general finding seems to be that instructional multimedia and hypermedia result in (1) equal or moderately greater achievement, (2) significantly reduced learning time, (2) significantly increased access to instruction, and (4) equal or modestly more positive attitude toward instruction, when compared with conventional instruction. There is significant variation in quantity and quality of research across these topics, ranging from extensive and definitive in the area of static visual displays to modest quantities in instructional hypermedia. The latter is likely related to the recent appearance on the scene of hypermedia. Finally, some cautionary observations are made about the research currently available."
Hypertext Course Resources
This page gives a selection of articles and resources that may be of some use to the academic consideration of hypertext.
Courses in hypertext theory, in writing hypertext, on hypertext literature, and on the design and implementation of hypertext tools are taught throughout the world, from elementary school through graduate studies.
We hope that this compendium of will give students and instructors, now and in the future, a better sense of what has been done elsewhere and what might be accomplished, and to facilitate communication among everyone interested in studying and teaching hypertext.
These notes describe items, past and present, of which we have heard. We apologize for errors and inaccuracies. Please send corrections and additions to info@eastgate.com.
