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GENERAL RESOURCES ON THE NEW MEDIA
GENERAL THEORETICAL WORKS ON NEW MEDIA & TECHNOLOGY OF WRITING
RESEARCH & THEORY ON HYPERTEXT
RESEARCH & THEORY ON HYPERMEDIA
RESEARCH & THEORY ON VIRTUAL COMMUNITIES, MOOS, MUDS
INTERFACE THEORY
VRML (VIRTUAL REALITY MARKUP LANGUAGE) - Resources and Examples
TEXT ENCODING INITIATIVE (TEI)
SGML (Standard Generalized Markup Language)
PUBLISHING INDUSTRY & TECHNOLOGY
HISTORY OF LANGUAGE TECHNOLOGY (Print & Other Language Techs as Reseen from the Vantage of the Computer Age)
COMPUTERS & COMPOSITION
CYBERETHICS & CYBERLAW (on Cyberculture page) (see also Cybercensorship on Cyberculture page; Copyright Issues on General Humanities Resources page)
COURSE SYLLABI
CONFERENCES & CALLS FOR PAPERS

 GENERAL RESOURCES ON THE NEW MEDIA

(of related interest: Cyberculture page)

  • Phil Agre (U. Calif., San Diego), "Designing Genres for New Media: Social, Economic, and Political Contexts"
  • Charles W. Bailey, Jr. (U. Houston Libraries), Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography ("selected articles, books, electronic documents, and other sources that are useful in understanding scholarly electronic publishing efforts on the Internet and other networks")
  • Applied Ethics Resources on WWW (Center for Applied Ethics)
  • Computer and Information Ethics
  • Media Ethics
  • Science and Technology Ethics
  • Bookware: Information for Writers, Publishers, and Book Lovers (E-Book information and ordering; e-publishing related links; and more)(Serendipity Systems)
  • The Electronic Publishing Forum ("This bulletin board is for discussions and questions related to writing, books, and electronic publishing on disks, CD-ROMs, and the Internet....)
  • Doug Brent (U. Calgary), "Stevan Harnad's 'Subversive Proposal': Kick-Starting Electronic Scholarship" (1995) (EJournal)
  • Bricolage (info and resources about the Internet relevant to writers) (Trevor Lawrence)
  • Center for Computer Analysis of Texts
  • Chorus: Exploring New Media in the Arts & Sciences ((Todd Blayone, et al. / College Writing Programs, U. California, Berkeley)
  • Columbia U. Institute for Learning Technology
  • The Compleat Webster ("an inquiry into the very particular goals of web authors...: ") (Kevin Murray)
  • CMC (Computer-Mediated Communication) Information Sources (extensive, well-organized site covering the Internet, cyberculture, technology, etc.) (John December, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, NY / December Communications, Inc.)
  • Computer-Mediated Communications Bibliography (text file; rich bibliography)
  • Computer-Mediated Communication Magazine | CMC Magazine Archive
  • Computers and Writing Books (collection of reviews)
  • Computers and Texts (Michael Fraser, Oxford U.)
  • Computing in the Humanities Working Papers ("interdisciplinary series of refereed publications on computer-assisted research"; in English and French) (Russon Wooldridge & Willard McCarty, U. Toronto)
  • CRILET: Center for Research in Computing and Literary Studies (U. Rome)
  • Cultures of Writing: Places, Spaces, and Interfaces of Writing and Writing Technologies (Web site for the Society for Critical Exchange project on this topic; includes info on the conference, related publications, and links)
  • Cyberpoet's Guide to Virtual Culture Archive (Electric Frontier Foundation)
  • CyberEducation (collection of links to on-line resources and to courses/syllabi) (Victor J. Vitanza)
  • CyberReader Page (support page for Victor J. Vitanza's anthology of readings on cyberspace and virtual reality)
  • Colin Day (U. Michigan Press), "The Economics of Electronic Publishing: Some Preliminary Thoughts"
  • Digital Creativity: Incorporating Intelligent Tutoring Media (peer-reviewed journal of technology of teaching)
  • Digital Lexicon ("a project of the Frieda Ackerman Working Group exploring the terms related to work using technologies")
  • Net Art Sites
  • Portals for Net Art
  • Terms for Digital Arts
  • Digital Media: Technology, Postmodernism and Other Stuff (annotated guide to online resources) (Communication Studies Dept., U. Iowa)
  • Bonnie Duncan, "Citing Hypermedia: Solving the Indexing Dilemma" (1998) (essay by the editor of the peer-reviewed online journal (Re)Soundings that lays out a suggested practical policy for the structure of journal file directories, file-naming conventions, etc.) ((Re)Soundings)
  • Educause: Transforming Education Through Information Technology (On July 1, 1998, CAUSE and Educom were consolidated to create EDUCAUSE: "The mission ...is to help shape and enable transformational change in higher education through the introduction, use, and management of information resources and technologies in teaching, learning, scholarship, research, and institutional management.")
  • Current Issues
  • Archive
  • Electronic Texts and Textuality (session organized by Bruce Graver, Providence C., for the 1996 conference of NASSR: North American Society for the Study of Romanticism, Nov. 15)
  • Selected Links:
  • Julie Flanders (Women Writers Project, Brown U.), "Editorial Methodology and the Electronic Text"
  • Ashton Nichols (Dickinson C.), "Hyping the Hypertext: Scholarship and the Limits of Technology"
  • Joseph J. Esposito (Pres. of Encyclopedia Britannica), "Redesigning, Not Reinventing, Encyclopaedia Britannica"
  • The EText Pages ("The aim of this site is to address generally the place of etexts in post secondary education, with a practical emphasis....our primary concern is giving an overview of the issues related to etext as well as practical information about how to use etexts.")(Western Civilization)
  • Tom Formaro, Argumentation on the World Wide Web: Challenging Traditional Notions of Communication (hypertext thesis)
  • Edward A. Fox, et al. (Virginia Tech U.(, "National Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations: A Scalable and Sustainable Approach to Unlock University Resources" (1996) (D-Lib Magazine)
  • The Future of the Book -- A Conference (Ann L. Okerson; report on July 1994 conference in San Marino, Italy)
  • Gateways, Gatekeepers, and Roles in the Information Omniverse (1993 Assoc. for Research Libraries/Assoc. of American Academic Univ. Presses Symposium)
  • Georgetown U. Program in Communication, Culture, and Technology (M.A.)
  • P. Ginsparg, "Winners and Losers in the Global Research Village" (1996) (on scholarly electronic publishing; based on experiences with automated research archives in physics)
  • Grail: Graphics and Imaging Laboratory (Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering, U. of Washington)
  • Jean-Claude Guedon (U. Montreal), "Why Are Electronic Publications Difficult to Classify?"
  • Stevan Harnad (Princeton U.)
  • "Scholarly Skywriting and the Prepublication Continuum of Scientific Inquiry" (1990)
  • "Post-Gutenberg Galaxy: The Fourth Revolution in the Means of Production of Knowledge" (1992)
  • "Interactive Publication: Extending the American Physical Society's Discipline-Specific Model for Electronic Publishing" (1992)
  • "Implementing Peer Review on the Net: Scientific Quality Control in Scholarly Electronic Journals" (1996)
  • Harvard Information Infrastructure Project
  • Michael Heim (on Cyberculture page)
  • H-CLC: Computers and Literary Studies Listserv
  • Humanist Discussion Group ("an international electronic seminar on the application of computers to the humanities")
  • Humanities and Arts on the Information Highways (Getty AHIP/ACLS/Coalition of Networked Info)
  • "Humanities in the 21st Century" (1995) (discussion between NEH Chairman Sheldon Hackney and James O'Donnell, U. Penn.)
  • HUMBUL Gateway to Hypermedia (Oxford U.)
  • Illinois Research Group on Classification (IRGC) (investigates "the sociology and history of medical classification through a set of linked subprojects. This is a project at the intersection of sociology and history of knowledge and technology, and raises issues about the development of large-scale information systems for the coordination and dissemination of information")
  • Journal of Electronic Publishing (U. Michigan, Ann Arbor) | (search JEP)
  • Kairos: A Journal For Teachers of Writing in Webbed Environments (refereed) (D'Artagnan Communications Group)
  • Matthew G. Kirschenbaum (U. Kentucky), "Electronic Publishing and Doctoral Dissertations in the Humanities" (1996)
  • Language Visualization and Multilayer Text Analysis ("prototype tool that can study language/discourse phenomena in three-dimensional space. The idea was to develop a tool which would allow a researcher to explore interactively the structures and typologies of discursive formation in large samples of textual data and develop new techniques for reading and interpreting text space"; first application is to Donna Haraway's essay, "Cyborg Manifesto") (Antonio Gonzalez-Walker, Cornell U.)
  • Katherine S. Mangan, "CD-ROM Dissertations: Universities Consider Whether New Format is Appropriate Way to Present Research" (1996) (Chronicle of Higher Education)
  • Marlene Manoff (MIT Libraries), "Cyberhope or Cyberhype? Computers and Scholarly Research" (1997)
  • Media Ecology (online "journal of intersections. We are about culture, communication and technology")
  • David S. Miall (U. Alberta), "Representing and Interpreting Literature by Computer" (1995)
  • MIT Media Lab
  • New Horizons in Scholarly Communication (large, detailed guide that "highlights trends affecting the process of creating, disseminating, retrieving, and using information for instruction and research at the university level") (Librarians Assoc. of U. California System)
  • New Media Literacies: Redefinitions of Literacy and Technology Through Graduate Student Teaching (Darren Cambridge, U. Texas, Austin)
  • New Word Order: Web Design for Smart People (commercial Web-design firm specializing in creating Web pages for academic individuals, programs, and institutions; founded by Kali Tal, who "combines a Ph.D. in American Studies . . . with six years of experience in humanities computing)
  • James J. O'Donnell (U. Penn)
  • "The Virtual Library: An Idea Whose Time Has Passed"
  • Mark Olsen (U. Chicago), "Signs, Symbols, and Discourses: A New Direction for Computer-Aided Literature Studies"
  • Online Magazine (for information professionals; "provides articles, product reviews, case studies, evaluation, and informed opinion about selecting, using, and managing electronic information products, plus industry and professional information about online database systems, CD-ROM, and the Internet") (Online Inc.)
  • Overview of Online Publication (excellent bibliography with links) (Willard McCarty)
  • Palimpsest (Mac application for developing large-scale e-text knowledge bases) (Western Civilization)
  • Palimpsest On-Line Manual
  • Palimpsest Overview
  • Reviews
  • Ocean of the Streams of Story: Virtual Worlds at U. Virginia (Dan Ancona / IATH, U. Virginia)
  • Paperless Papers (essays on computers & writing)
  • Papers of the Epistemology and Learning Group (MIT Media Lab)
  • Pamela Pavliscak, Seamus Ross, and Charles Henry, "Information Technology in Humanities Scholarship: Achievements, Prospects, and Challenges—The United States Focus" (1997) (American Council of Learned Societies)
  • Presenters University: The Art of Presentation (guide to the art of multimedia presentations; includes articles on writing and giving presentations, presentation technology, technical considerations in adapting a presentation to a particular room configuration, etc.) (Proxima, Inc.)
  • The Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography (Charles W. Bailey, Jr., U. of Houston)
  • Thorsten Schreiber (U. Bayreuth, Germany), English Literatures on the Internet (M.A. thesis offering a "comprehensive study of material about English Literature on the internet"; includes discussion of the nature and role of electronic resources and in-depth commentary on major sites)
  • Scott Stebelman (George Washington U.), "Studies of Interest to English and American Literature Librarians" (bibliography)
  • The Study Place ("long-term project . . . to prototype and develop online academic resources and navigational interfaces in support of academic scholarship by combining traditional elements of scholarly research with new communication and presentation possibilities enabled by networked digital technology") (Institute for Learning Technologies, Columbia U.)
  • SuperJournal Home Page (major U.K.-based collaboration between publishers, universities, and libraries "to identify the factors that make electronic journals successful and to develop successful models for network publishing. The project will develop a wide range of multimedia journals in the sciences and social sciences, make them available to participating user communities, and perform detailed research on the factors that influence success")
  • Survey on U. California Faculty Use of Technology as a Tool in Instruction, 1995
  • Technology: Cognition, Computers, and the Internet: Online Resources (Wendy Gale Robinson, U. North Carolina at Chapel Hill/Duke U.)
  • Transcriptions: Literary History and the Culture of Information (NEH-sponsored curricular development and research project designed to integrate literary and technological studies; includes courses, colloquia, topics pages, and resources that interweave two sets of themes: the current social and cultural contexts that make information so powerful, the past and present engagement of literature with information technologies from orality on) (English Dept., U. California, Santa Barbara)
  • Visible Language Workshop (MIT Media Lab)
  • Web Publishing Paradigms (Tim Guay, Simon Fraser U.) (hypertext essay on the competing paradigms of the information universe, including the print, multimedia, hypertext, "docuverse," and interactive paradigms)
  • Margaret Williams (U. Toronto) "The Physical Book Online"
  • W.R.I.T.E. Conference (Writers' Retreat on Interactive Technology and Equipment)
  • Writer(y) Page (resources for computers & writing)
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    •  GENERAL THEORETICAL WORKS ON NEW MEDIA & TECHNOLOGY OF WRITING

  • Dean Blobaum (U. Chicago Press), Review of Sven Birkerts's The Gutenberg Elegies: The Fate of Reading in the Electronic Age (1995)
  • Finn Bostad (Norwegian U. of Science & Technology), "What Happens to Writing When Texts in 'A World on Paper' Are Replaced by Messages in 'Virtual Space'?"
  • Collin Gifford Brooke (U. Texas, Arlington) "The Fate of Rhetoric in an Electronic Age" (1997) (Enculturation)
  • Andy Cameron, "Dissimulations: Illusions of Interactivity" ("This discussion is an attempt to speculate on the collision between a dominant cultural form - narrative, and the technology of interactivity") (Hypermedia Research Centre)
  • Sean Cubitt (Liverpool John Moores U., UK), Digital Aesthetics ("the first full-length study to investigate the aesthetic nature and purposes of computer culture in the contemporary world...")
  • Cass Dalglish (Augsburg C., Minneapolis), "Skipping, Jumping, Twisting and Untwisting: Reading the Oldest and Newest of Writing Styles" (1997) (Enculturation)
  • Mark Dery, "Culture Jamming: Hacking, Slashing and Sniping in the Empire of Signs"
  • Johanna Drucker (Columbia U.)
  • The History of the/my Wor(l)d (Granary Books)
  • Matthew G. Kirschenbaum (U. Kentucky), Lines for a Virtual T/y/o/pography (in-progress hypertext and VRML dissertation being written "real-time" on the net; concerns the work of textuality theorist/artist Johanna Drucker)
  • Robert M. Fowler (Baldwin-Wallace C., Ohio)
  • "The Fate of the Notion of Canon in the Electronic Age"
  • "Secondary Orality in the Electronic Age"
  • Eduardo Kac
  • "Aspects of the Aesthetics of Telecommunications"
  • "Recent Experiments in Holopoetry and Computer Holopoetry" and Holopoetry
  • "Holopoetry, Hypertext, Hyperpoetry"
  • Douglas Kellner (UCLA), "Intellectuals and New Technologies"
  • Matthew G. Kirschenbaum (U. Kentucky)
  • Lines for a Virtual T/y/o/pography (in-progress hypertext and VRML dissertation being written "real-time" on the net; concerns the work of textuality theorist/artist Johanna Drucker)
  • Lucid Mapping and Codex Transformissions in the Z-Buffer ("investigation of textual and narrative possibilities within three dimensional on-screen environments [specifically Virtual Reality Modeling Language, or VRML]")
  • Richard A. Lanham, Chapter 4 of The Electronic Word: Democracy, Technology, and the Arts (1993) (U. Chicago Press)
  • Martina E. Linnemann, "Out is In, Off the Page/ Now Online - Cool" (1997-98) (on Ronald Sukenick and the typographical novel in the age of digital media) (EBR: Electronic Book Review)
  • Media Ecology (online "journal of intersections. We are about culture, communication and technology")
  • David S. Miall (U. Alberta), "Representing and Interpreting Literature by Computer" (1995)
  • Perforations (vol. 2, no. 3) - After the Book: Writing Literature/Writing Technology
  • Permutations (machine-generated verse and prose, acrostics, Markov chains, etc.; includes links to other machine-text sites)
  • Selected Resources:
  • Raymond Queneau, A Fairytale as You Like It
  • Raymond Queneau, one hundred thousand billion poems
  • Postmodernism, Interactivity, Cyberculture, and Art: Online Resources (Wendy Gale Robinson, U. North Carolina at Chapel Hill/Duke U.)
  • (journal) (Re)Soundings (peer-reviewed "hypermedia periodical in the humanities")
  • Responses to the Holocaust: A Hypermedia Sourcebook for the Humanities (rich, sophisticated introduction to "the various discourses, disciplines, media and institutions that have produced significant critical and theoretical positions and discussions concerning the Nazi Genocide of the Jews of Europe, 1933-45") (Robert S. Leventhal, U. Virginia) | Informatics and Technology
  • Marie-Laure Ryan (Colorado State U.), "Immersion vs. Interactivity: Virtual Reality and Literary Theory" (1994)
  • David Williamson Shaffer (MIT Media Lab), "Symmetric Intuitions: Dynamic Geometry / Dynamic Art"
  • Jeremy J. Shapiro and Shelley K. Hughes, "Information Literacy as a Liberal Art" (1996) (Educom Review)
  • Clifford Siskin, "The Business of Romanticism" (1997) ("the particular configuration of genres we call Literature is, in fact, a specific historical instance of a larger category--the technology of writing") (Romantic Circles)
  • Emery Snyder (Princeton U.), "Baroque Simulacra" (1996) (on the relation between early modern manuscript culture, mnemotechnics, historical reading habits, the book, and hypertext)
  • Alan Sondheim, Internet Text
  • Susan Leigh Star (U. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
  • "To Classify is Human" (1996) (essay of broad relevance on the social and cultural implications of classifications and "residual classifications" in the information age; makes use of historical data on classifications in fields including medical and nursing sciences)
  • "Grounded Classification: Grounded Theory and Faceted Classification" (1997)
  • Gregory Ulmer's Home Page
  • John Unsworth (UVA)
  • "Electronic Scholarship or, Scholarly Publishing and the Public" (1994)
  • "Living Inside the (Operating) System: Community in Virtual Reality (Draft)"
  • Kim H. Veltman, "Space, Time and Perspective in Print Culture and Electronic Media" (claims "that perspective is not simply a Renaissance phenomenon; that its temporal and kinetic dimensions actually require electronic media; that these have basic implications for our concepts of knowledge and that a new era in the understanding of perspective is therefore about to begin") (McLuhan Program in Culture and Technology)
  • Visual Poetics: A Lecture Series (1997-98) (schedule of lectures by such authors as Charles Bernstein, Susan Howe, Johanna Drucker; includes links) (Stanford Humanities Center)
  • Shawn P. Wilbur's Cyberspatial Page
  • Mark Wolff, "Post-Structuralism and the ARTFL Database: Some Theoretical Considerations" (1994) (Information Technology and Libraries)
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    •  RESEARCH & THEORY ON HYPERTEXT

  • Hypertext and Hypermedia: A Select Bibliography (extensive bibliography of the literature on this topic; includes live links where possible) (Scott Stebelman; George Washington U.)
  • Hypertext Theory Links (Communication Studies Dept., U. Iowa)
  • alt.hypertext (web interface to newsgroup)
  • American Studies Web: Literature and Hypertext Page (Crossroads, Georgetown U.)
  • Literature and Hypertext Resources
  • (Daniel Anderson, U. Texas Austin), Not Maimed but Malted (hypertext essay on hypertextuality and the relation between graphics and text; applied to the problem of freshmen composition)
  • Babble: A Synoptic Unicode Browser (multilingual "SGML-capable synoptic text tool that can display multiple texts in parallel windows. . . . allows multilingual texts, using mixed character sets, to be displayed simultaneously. . . ."; downloadable program for Solaris, Win95 and Win NT) (Robert Bingler, Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities, U. Virginia)
  • V. Balasubramanian (Rutgers U.), "Hypertext Review" (study of hypertext issues)
  • Sven Birkerts, Carolyn Guyer, Bob Stein, and Michael Joyce, "Page versus Pixel: Part One of FEED's Dialogue on Electronic Text" (June 1995)
  • "Conversation with Geoffrey Bennington" (on the relation between deconstruction and hypertext, the Internet, and information technology) (Seulemonde)
  • Vannevar Bush
  • "As We May Think" (1945) (HTML version of the canonical essay on hypertext; originally published in The Atlantic Monthly)
  • Remembering the Memex: A FEED Document on Vannevar Bush's "As We May Think" ("we have reprinted major passages from Bush's original essay, with hypertext annotations from a panel of leading writers and critics, including hypertext pioneer Michael Joyce, Release 1.0's Esther Dyson, and Wen Stephenson, editor of The Atlantic Monthly's Web site, Atlantic Unbound")
  • CREW: Compact for Responsive Electronic Writing ("a non-binding, strictly symbolic agreement among WWW authors promising to open their documents to links proposed by others in the community")
  • Derrida and Hypertext ("overview list all those hypertexts which make use of Derrida's theories") (Marc Zbyszynski, Brown U.)
  • J. Yellowlees Douglas, "Gaps, Maps And Perception: What Hypertext Readers (Don't) Do" (Perforations)
  • Bonnie Duncan, "Citing Hypermedia: Solving the Indexing Dilemma" (1998) (essay by the editor of the peer-reviewed online journal (Re)Soundings that lays out a suggested practical policy for the structure of journal file directories, file-naming conventions, etc.) ((Re)Soundings)
  • Eastgate Systems Home Page (commercial offerings of Mac Storyspace hypertext resources)
  • The Electronic Labyrinth (major guide to the genealogy, philosophy, structure, and technology of hypertext (as related to literature); includes links to many short essays as well as online literary resources at U. Alberta) (Christopher Keep, Tim McLaughlin, robin)
  • Selected Resources:
  • Hypertext Terminology
  • Re-Thinking the Book (short informational essays on the history of the book from its beginnings to contemporary hyper- and intertextuality)
  • Writing and Reading Electronic Texts (short information essays on the structure, design, and process of authoring/reading hypertexts)
  • Literary Formats from Manuscripts to Electronic Texts (set of short informational essays on early precedents for contemporary hypertext and multimedia, ranging from palimpsenst and manuscripts through Blake and William Morris to electronic media)
  • The Non-Linear Tradition in Literature (short information pages with links regarding eight print authors of particular relevance to the age of hypertext: Sterne, Robbe-Grillet, Nabokov, Cortázar, O'Brien, Calvino, Pavic)
  • Software Environments
  • Guide to Publications on Hypertext Writing and Criticism
  • Software Environments for Hypertext Work
  • Time Line (chronology with links to informational resources elsewhere in the site)
  • English Server: Multimedia/Hypermedia Resources (Carnegie Mellon U.)
  • Exposition S95 - Toward an Electronic Humanities: A Hypertext Poetics (hypertext project by Gregory Ulmer's graduate seminar in electronic culture, U Florida)
  • Jurgen Fauth, "Poles in Your Face: The Promises and Pitfalls of Hyperfiction" (Navigate through back issues to V 1, N 6, September 1995)
  • Terry Harpold, "Hypertext and Hypermedia: A Selected Bibliography (1991)"
  • Michael Heim (on Cyberculture page)
  • Hipertulia ("una página dedicada al hipertexto y a la hiperficción que quiere cubrir parcialmente el vacío que existe en castellano sobre estos asuntos") (Dept. de Filogogía Española, U. Complutense de Madrid)
  • History-of-Hypertext Timeline (Jorn Barger)
  • Hyperizons (annotated bibliography of original hypertext fiction, criticism, and related sites) (Michael Shumate, Duke U.)
  • HyperLiterature/HyperTheory HomePage (Virginia Tech)
  • Hypertext as Group Practice (Mary Hocks, U. of Illinois)
  • Hypertext and Hypermedia: a select bibliography (bibliographies of conferences proceedings, journals, and anthologies; history and overview; theory and design; critique; background; and other hypertext bibliographies)(Terry Harpold, Georgia Tech)
  • Hypertext Literature Research Tools (Jack Lynch, Rutgers U.)
  • Hypertext, or Anti-Linear Navigation (beautifully-designed hypertext work on hypertext and poststructuralist theory) (Eric Feay)
  • Hypertext Terms
  • Hypertext Theory As If the WWWeb Matters (identifies a series of "problems" to solve in web design) (Jorn Barger)
  • HyperTheory/HyperLiterature Annotated Bibliography (hypertext annotated bibliography of critical and theoretical works relevant to hypertext produced by graduate English class at Virginia Tech)
  • Jean A. Jacobson (U. Minnesota), "Some Considerations for the Use of Lists as Hypertextual Devices on HTML WWW Pages"
  • Nancy Kaplan, "Politexts, Hypertext, and Other Cultural Formations in the Late Age of Print" (Computer-Mediated Communication Magazine)
  • Keep, McLaughlin, and robin [sic], The Electronic Labyrinth ("...a study of hypertext technology, providing a guide to this rapidly growing field. We are most concerned with the implications of this medium for creative writers looking to move beyond traditional notions of linearity and univocity.")(hosted by U. of Victoria)
  • Glenn A. Kurtz (San Francisco State U.) , "From Work to Hypertext: Authors and Authority in a Reader-Directed Medium"
  • George P. Landow (Brown U.)
  • Home Page
  • Hypertext: The Convergence of Contemporary Critical Theory & Technology (Chap. 1)
  • Review of Jay David Bolter's Writing Space: The Computer, Hypertext, & the History of Writing
  • Review of James Nyce and Paul Kahn's From Memex to Hypertext: Vannevar Bush & the Mind's Machine
  • Lucid Mapping and Codex Transformissions in the Z-Buffer ("investigation of textual and narrative possibilities within three dimensional on-screen environments [specifically Virtual Reality Modeling Language, or VRML]") (Matthew G. Kirschenbaum, U. Kentucky)
  • Marist College English Web: Postmodern Theory, Cultural Studies, and Hypertext (Tom Goldpaugh)
  • Jerome McGann (U. Virginia)
  • "Radiant Textuality" (the relation of online computing and hypertext to literary scholarship)
  • "The Rationale of HyperText"
  • Colin Moock
  • Nebeneinander and Nacheinander (hypertext fiction)
  • "The Aphasia of Similarity Disorder on the World Wide Web: Jakobson's Linguistic Poles and Hyper-Text" (1995) (essay)
  • Stuart Moulthrop (U. Baltimore)
  • Home Page
  • Hypertexts
  • Essays
  • Error 404: Doubting the Web (1999)
  • Pushing Back: Living and Writing in Broken Space (1997)
  • Hypertext '96 Trip Report (1996)
  • Citescapes (1995)
  • Traveling in the Breakdown Lane: A Principle of Resistance for Hypertext (1994-95)
  • Getting Over the Edge (1993-96)
  • "No War Machine" (1992-95)
  • In th Zones (1989)
  • Ted Nelson's Xanadu Project
  • Dave Norton (Brigham Young U.), Playgrounds, Mosaics, & Improvisation Structures: A Study of Collaborative Hypertext Composition in the Classroom and in Theory (an extensive hypertext project discussing hypertext collaboration and community, hypertext theory, the structuring of collaborative hypertexts, and hypertext literacy; can be read as a narrative, as a bundle of themes, or in full hypertextuality)
  • On-Line Literary Resources: Hypertext (Jack Lynch, Rutgers U.)
  • Thorsten Schreiber (U. Bayreuth, Germany), English Literatures on the Internet (M.A. thesis offering a "comprehensive study of material about English Literature on the internet"; includes discussion of the nature and role of electronic resources and in-depth commentary on major sites)
  • Clay Shirky, "This Essay Doesn't Fit on Your Screen: An Essay on Web Fiction"
  • Show Your Fetish (collective hypertext writing experiment using X-Change Space) (Gregory Ulmer, U. Florida) * Show Your Fetish: The Proposal * X-Change S-pace (innovative forms-based gateway to collectively written and edited hypertexts; anyone can create an HTML document and mount it on this Hamburg server; anyone can edit any HTML document in this "space"; the display "topography" of the space changes randomly each time one goes back to it. See the Voice of the Shuttle contribution titled "Patchworks")
  • Thoms Swiss (Drake U.) Hypertext and English Studies (course)
  • Tearing Down the Page (hypertext meditation/pastiche on the concept of "voice"; part of U. Florida Fetish project) (Cooper Shelbey, U. Florida)
  • John Tolva (Washington U.) "Ut Pictura Hyperpoesis: Spatial Form, Visuality, and the Digital Word" (1996) (The Seventh ACM Conference on Hypertext, Washington D.C.)
  • U. Baltimore Publications Design Home Page | Web Publications
  • John Unsworth (U. Virginia)
  • "Theory and Practice of Hypertext"
  • Usable Web: Hypermedia ("General hypermedia knowledge as applied to the Web")(Keith Instone)
  • What is Hypertext?
  • Stephen Wilson (Conceptual Design, Art Dept, SFSU) Hypermedia & Interactive Theory, Web Design Links
  • Xanadu Home Page (Ted Nelson's vision of hypertext=universe) (Andrew Pam)
  • X-Change S-pace (innovative forms-based gateway to collectively written and edited hypertexts; anyone can create an HTML document and mount it on this Hamburg server; anyone can edit any HTML document in this "space"; the display "topography" of the space changes randomly each time one goes back to it. See the Voice of the Shuttle contribution titled "Patchworks."
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    •  RESEARCH & THEORY ON HYPERMEDIA

  • Hypertext and Hypermedia: A Select Bibliography (extensive bibliography of the literature on this topic; includes live links where possible) (Scott Stebelman; George Washington U.)
  • English Server: Multimedia/Hypermedia Resources (Carnegie Mellon U.)
  • Michael Ester (Luna Imaging), "Image Use in Art - Historical Practice"
  • Fast Multiresolution Image Querying ("We are exploring a strategy for searching through an image database, in which the query is expressed either as a low-resolution image from a scanner or video camera, or as a rough sketch painted by the user") (Jacobs, Finkelstein, Salesin, U. Washington)
  • Hypermedia Research Centre
  • A Hypermedia Timeline (Kevin Hughes)
  • The Informedia Project ("research initiative at Carnegie Mellon University funded by the NSF, DARPA, NASA and others, that studies how multimedia Digital Libraries can be established and used. Informedia is building a multimedia library that will contain over a thousand hours of digital video, and audio, images, text and other related materials")
  • Glenn A. Kurtz (San Francisco State U.)
  • "The Aesthetics of Scale" (essay on multimedia)
  • Multimedia Theory and Experimental Fiction (well-selected set of links on these topics)
  • Multimedia Theory and Criticism (1997) (course)
  • Jerome McGann (UVA), "The Rossetti Archive and Image-based Electronic Editing"
  • MIT Media Lab
  • NYU Center for Advanced Technology (CAT)
  • Christy Sheffield Sanford (mixed genre artist/creative writer using advanced Web techniques to experiment with text-graphics interaction)
  • "Safara in the Beginning," a Moving-Book ("a web-novel set in the seventeenth century")
  • Red Mona (a mixed genre work using "flash-cards" with text, images, sound inspired by the Guy de Maupassant story, Petit Soldat)
  • Madame de Lafayette Book of Hours Page (unique, image- and frame-intensive, hypertext meditation inspired by "the life, time or characters of Madame de Lafayette)
  • MULTIMEDIA LAW
  • J. Dianne Brinson and Mark F. Radcliffe, "Multimedia Law Handbook: A Practical Guide for Developers and Publishers"
  • Fred Greguras & Sandy J. Wong, "Multimedia Content and the Super Highway: Rapid Acceleration or Foot on the Brake?"
  • WWW Multimedia Law (Sandy Jane Wong)
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    •  RESEARCH & THEORY ON VIRTUAL COMMUNITIES, MOOS, MUDS

  • Amy Bruckman & Mitchel Resnick, "The MediaMOO Project: Constructionism and Professional Community" (1995)
  • Building Authentic Communities in Virtual Spaces (Web site for the Collaborative Writing Worshop about computers & community at the Computers and Writing Conference, El Paso, May 18, 1995)
  • Center for the Study of Online Communities (UCLA)
  • DesignSphere Online (aims to "build an electronic community for the communications arts, graphic arts, prepress and printing industry") (Cogent Software, Inc.)
  • E_MOO Central ("Dedicated to research and development in MUD and MOO technology")
  • Michael Heim (on Cyberculture page)
  • Don Langham (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute), "The Common Place MOO: Orality and Literacy in Virtual Reality" (1994) (Computer-Mediated Communication Magazine)
  • MOObasics * MOO Tip Sheet for Teachers (Traci Gardner)
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    •  INTERFACE THEORY

  • Advanced Visual Interfaces (May 25-27, 1998, Italy) (conference)
  • Georgia Tech U. Graphics, Visualization, and Usability Center
  • Human Interface Technology Lab Projects (U Washington)
  • A Retinal Display for Virtual-Environment Applications (Human Interface Technology Lab, U Washington)
  • TreeTown Project (fractal-branching model for representing architectural space) (Peter Oppenheimer, artist-in-residence, Human Interface Technology Lab, U Washington)
  • Knowledge Base Project (Human Interface Technology Lab, U Washington)
  • InterFace Magazine (computer interface theory and practice)
  • InterFace InterPretations
  • Liquid Information Organization (site dedicated to envisioning a future, more "fluid" integration of information; the "liquid information environment" is "total integration, and not just an information tsunami. . . . It's where you can edit information as though you were working with oil paint; as simple as a brush and canvas, and as fluid. It's where there are no more information ghettos where multimedia whiz bang encyclopedia hold their contents hostage.")
  • The Magic Lens Interface (Xerox PARC)
  • PlaceWare ("discover how PlaceWare offers new opportunities for live training and conferencing on the Web. In a PlaceWare Auditorium event, presenters give slide shows and answer questions from the audience. Audiences respond to the presenter and to each other, vote, and assess the presenter - without leaving their desktop"; commercial site)
  • Tim Rohrer (U. Oregon), "Feelings Stuck in a GUI Web: Metaphors, Image-Schemas and Designing the Human Computer Interface"
  • User Interface Research at Xerox PARC (text file)
  • Visible Language Workshop (MIT Media Lab)
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    •  VRML (VIRTUAL REALITY MARKUP LANGUAGE) - Resources and Examples

  • Lightscape Technologies Home Page
  • Lucid Mapping and Codex Transformissions in the Z-Buffer ("investigation of textual and narrative possibilities within three dimensional on-screen environments [specifically Virtual Reality Modeling Language, or VRML]") (Matthew G. Kirschenbaum, U. Kentucky)
  • Ocean of the Streams of Story: Virtual Worlds at U. Virginia (Dan Ancona / IATH, U. Virginia)
  • VRML (Art Department Faculty, Eastern Michigan U.)
  • VRML Links (links to technical help; history; VRML browsers and tools; projects and events; and future of VRML)(David McConville)
  • VRML Repository ("...The VRML Repository is an impartial, comprehensive, community resource for the dissemination of information relating to VRML.")
  • VRML Web Ring ("The VRML Ring consists of websites linked together to form a "Tour" of VRML content sites. Unlike a simple list of links, the VRML Ring will provide a guided tour of the VR websites linked together by the VRML Ring.") (David Maloney)
  • Morten Sby, "Possessed by Virtual Reality"
  • WAXweb, Waxweb 2.0 Beta (1675)
  • Web 3D Consortium ("The Web3D Consortium was formed to provide a forum for the creation of open standards for Web3D specifications, and to accelerate the worldwide demand for products based on these standards through the sponsorship of market and user education programs.")
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    •  TEXT ENCODING INITIATIVE (TEI)

  • TEI: Text Encoding Initiative Home Page
  • Text Encoding (TGI and SGML) (Kita Lab, Faculty of Engineering, Tokushima Univ, Japan)
  • TEI Guidelines for Electronic Text Encoding and Interchange (U. Virginia)
  • TEI: An Introduction (Lou Burndard, Oxford U. Computing Services)
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    •  SGML (Standard Generalized Markup Language)

  • Babble: A Synoptic Unicode Browser (multilingual "SGML-capable synoptic text tool that can display multiple texts in parallel windows. . . . allows multilingual texts, using mixed character sets, to be displayed simultaneously. . . ."; downloadable program for Solaris, Win95 and Win NT) (Robert Bingler, Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities, U. Virginia)
  • SGML on the Web (info and links regarding SGML and new developments in the SGML/Web interface) (NCSA/SoftQuad)
  • SGML Web Page (info about the Standard Generalized Markup Language with links to further resources) (Robin Cover)
  • A Little Bit of SGML (Dianne Gorman)
  • SGML: Academic Projects (deep page with links to projects and info at major centers of academic SGML development; describes each center) (Robin Cover)
  • SGML Bibliography (Robin Cover)
  • Lou Burnard, "What is SGML, and How Does It Help?"
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    •  PUBLISHING INDUSTRY & TECHNOLOGY

  • Biblioteca: A Project Extending Electronic Publishing ("Biblioteca testifies to the growing importance of electronic media in the composition and distribution of contemporary writing. It consists of chapbook-length texts published through the Electronic Poetry Center [Buffalo], including those already published in conjuction with Rif/t as well as hypermedia works and archival republications of significant typographic works") (Electronic Publishing Center)
  • Colin Day (U. Michigan Press), "The Economics of Electronic Publishing: Some Preliminary Thoughts"
  • Educom Review Publishing Index (online articles on digital and multimedia publishing)
  • Joseph J. Esposito (Pres. of Encyclopedia Britannica), "The Future of Publishing"
  • Joel Felix (Assoc. Ed., EBR), "L'Affaire PMC The Postmodern Culture-Johns Hopkins University Press Conversation" (on the controversy surrounding the move of the Postmodern Culture online journal from a public-access site to a subscription site) (EBR: Electronic Book Review, Winter 1997/98)
  • Lightning Print, Inc. ("provides 'on-demand' printing and distribution services to the book industry. LPI books are stored electronically and printed, one at a time, as ordered by booksellers and librarians through book wholesalers"; see the story in the New York Times on the Web on the new paradigm of on-demand book printing, "A High-Tech Rescue for Out-of-Print Books," 1988)
  • Network-Based Electronic Publishing of Scholarly Works: A Selective Bibliography ("This bibliography presents selected works, published between 1990 and the present, that are useful in understanding scholarly electronic publishing efforts on the Internet and other networks. It does not provide detailed coverage of the substantial body of literature that deals with general electronic publishing topics") (Charles W. Bailey, Jr.)
  • Ann Okerson (Office of Scientific and Academic Publishing of the Assoc. of Research Libraries), "Back to Academia? The Case for American Universities to Publish Their Own Research" (1991)
  • Overview of Online Publication (excellent bibliography with links) (Willard McCarty)
  • J. E. Rawlins, "The New Publishing: Technology's Impact on the Publishing Industry" (text file on impact of technology on the publishing industry)
  • J. Sairamesh et. al., "Economic Framework for Pricing and Charging in Digital Libraries" (1996) (D-Lib)
  • Daniel Schutzer (Financial Services Technology Consortium, Citibank), "A Need For A Common Infrastructure Digital Libraries and Electronic Commerce" (1996) (D-Lib)
  • Linda Scovill, "Librarians and Publishers in the Scholarly Information Process: Transition in the Electronic Age" (Council on Library Resources/Assoc. of American Publishers)
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    •  HISTORY OF LANGUAGE TECHNOLOGY (Print & Other Language Techs as Reseen from the Vantage of the Computer Age)

    (see also Media History on Media Studies page)

  • Joshua Graham Baldner, "The Telephone: Impact and Expansion"
  • Charles Bernstein (State U. of New York, Buffalo), Review of Johanna Drucker, The Visible Word: Experimental Typography and Modern Art, 1909-1923 (1994) (Project Muse, Johns Hopkins U. Press)
  • Bodleian Library Image Catalogue (.gif and .jpg images of manuscripts; thumbnail index and higher-resolution)
  • Center for Book Arts (Richard Minsky)
  • Daniel Chandler (U. Wales Aberystwyth)
  • "Biases of the Ear and Eye" (overview of theoretical issues regarding orality and literacy; includes bibliography)
  • "Using the Telephone"
  • Center for Studies in Oral Tradition at U. Missouri, Columbia
  • The Classic Typewriter Page (Richard Polt)
  • Color Printing in the 19th Century (exhibition at Hugh M. Morris Library U. Delaware Library; includes explanations of intaglio, relief, lithography, and nature printing and photomechanical processes)
  • COOL: Conservation Online (Stanford U.)
  • Sean Cubitt (Liverpool John Moores U., UK), "The Co-Evolution of Voice and Machine from Typewriter to Hypertext" (Freebase)
  • Cultural Readings: Colonization & Print in the Americas (U. Penn. Library exhibition from the collections of the Jay I. Kislak Foundation and the Rosenbach Museum & Library; includes images, explanations, and essays)
  • Tom Davis (Birmingham U.) (page for courses on bibliography [printing, handwriting, the web] and on theories of the mind)
  • Descriptive Bibliography: On-line Tutorial ("introduction to the notational paradigms of traditional descriptive bibliography [quasi-facsimile transcription, collation-formulae, bibliographic reference, and some of the various items found in textual apparatus]"; uses Peter Brubach's 1550 edition of Seven Tragedies of Sophocles to provide "examples of both descriptive notation and the sources from which such notation is drawn") (Stephen Ramsay, U. Virginia)
  • Early Printed Books Project, Oxford U.
  • Don Etherington & Matt Roberts, Etherington and Roberts Dictionary-Electronic Edition (glossary of bookbinding and conservation terms)
  • Feminism and Writing Technologies ("investigates specific technologies--such as, alphabet, moveable type, index, pencil, typewriter, xerox machine, computer, internet--which are historically and currently enmeshed in multinational divisions of labor") (Katie King, U. Maryland)
  • John Miles Foley, "Oral Formulaic Theory and Research: An Introduction and Annotated Bibliography" (1985)
  • Michael Fuller (U. Calif., Irvine), "Gatekeepers of Memory: Issues in the Chinese Efforts to Organize Their Textual Legacy"
  • Graphion's Online Type Museum
  • History of Art and Computing ("an exploration of parallel events in the evolution of arts and computers") (Victoria Vesna, U. California, Santa Barbara)
  • History of Books and Printing: A Research Guide (bibliographies) (New York Public Library)
  • History of Printing (Geoffrey Rubinstein / Jones Telecommunications & Multimedia Encyclopedia)
  • Images of Orality and Literacy in Greek Iconography of the Fifth, Fourth and Third Centuries BCE (James O'Donnell)
  • Information Age: People, Information & Technology (Smithsonian Exhibit: pictures and info from the history of early telegraphy, telephony, and cybernetics)
  • Introduction to Bookbinding (Douglas W. Jones, U. Iowa)
  • Martin Irvine (Georgetown U.), "The Technology of the Manuscript Book" (overview of history of the codex manuscript; includes illustrations)
  • Bruce Jones (U. California, San Diego), "Manuscripts, Books, and Maps: The Printing Press and a Changing World"
  • Introduction
  • Four Important Periods in the History of the Book
  • The Rise of the University
  • The Development of Print Technology
  • Luther and the Protestant Reformation
  • The Rise of Vernacular Languages and Nation States and the Decline of the Roman Catholic Church
  • Kevin S. Kiernan (U. Kentucky), "Digital Preservation, Restoration, and Dissemination of Medieval Manuscripts"
  • Katie King (U. Maryland), The Politics of the Oral and the Written: Feminism and Writing Technologies (course)
  • Friedrich A. Kittler Bibliography (Peter Krapp, U. California, Santa Barbara)
  • The Electronic Pedagogy Page of Slippery Rock U. (Nancy A. Barta-Smith / Raylene Thompson)
  • Koninklijke Bibliotheek: Historical Dutch Bookmaking & Typography
  • Typography and Design Until 1800
  • Modern Typography and Design
  • Book Bindings and Design
  • Decorated Paper and Papermaking
  • A Leonardo da Vinci Notebook (Codex Arundel) (British Library exhibit)
  • Media History Project
  • Selected Links
  • Keywords, Concepts, & Theorists
  • Time Line/Media History
  • The Dead Media Archives
  • Oral & Scribal Culture
  • Printing & Print Culture
  • Journalism
  • Comics
  • Telegraphy
  • Telephony
  • Sound Recording
  • Photography
  • Radio
  • Film
  • Television
  • Computing
  • General Historical Reference
  • J. Hillis Miller (U. California, Irvine), "Graphic or Verbal: A Dilemma" (1998) (on the Victorian "multimedia" novel; drawn in part from Miller's Black Holes, 1999)
  • James J. O'Donnell (U. Penn)
  • On-Line Literary Resources: Bibliography & History of the Book (Jack Lynch, U. Penn)
  • The Planets and Their Children: A Blockbook of Medieval Popular Astrology ("a hypermedia presentation of a blockbook or "Planetenbuch", in which I have attempted to make the 15th-century experience of reading a popular astrology text accessible to a modern, nonspecialist audience") (Marianne Hansen)
  • Prairie Paper Project (Douglas W. Jones, U. Iowa)
  • Printing: History and Development (overview) (Jones International Ltd.)
  • Printmaking: On Line Information (Arvon Wellen, Anglia Polytechnic U., Cambridge, UK)
  • Links Related to Printmaking
  • Printmaking Techniques and History
  • Resources of Scholarly Societies - Bibliography & History of the Book (U. Waterloo)
  • RuneType: The Rune Typology Project--Computerizing Runic Inscriptions at the History Museum in Bergen) (searchable)
  • SHARP Web: Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, & Publishing (metapage of publisher archives, publishers' pages, syllabi, bibliographies, online exhibits, calls for papers, and other resources related to the history of published discourse) (Patrick Leary, Indiana U., Bloomington)
  • SHARP-L: Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, & Publishing Listserv (info & subscription address)
  • Prospectus for Book History MA (includes bibliography) (Robin Alston, U. College, London, for SHARPWeb),
  • Publishers' Archives: Weedon List (text file)
  • Publishers' Archives: Albinski List (text file)
  • Publishers' Materials at the McFarlin Library, U. of Tulsa (Sidney F. Huttner, U. of Tulsa, for SHARPWeb)
  • Emery Snyder (Princeton U.), "Baroque Simulacra" (1996) (on the relation between early modern manuscript culture, mnemotechnics, historical reading habits, the book, and hypertext)
  • Jan Tschichold Page (info, bilbiography, and some illustrations relating to Tschichold, who defined the "New Typography" in 1928) (Sherry Heinz)
  • Daniel Traister (U. Penn) (course syllabi)
  • "History of Books and Printing"
  • "History of Books and Printing, 1800-1950"
  • Typography Online ("Since 1984 the computer has somewhat revolutionized the way printed matter is manufactured with the sad result that many good typographers have gone out of trade. This is but history repeating itself...") (Nnee Publishing Online)
  • U. Alabama MFA in the Book Arts Program
  • U. of Iowa Center for the Book
  • Handmade Papers
  • U. of Iowa Conservation Lab
  • U. of Lund, Sweden: Division for the History of Books and Libraries
  • Technology of the Word in the Middle Ages (manuscript images) (Jim O'Donnell, U. Penn)
  • Kim H. Veltman, "Space, Time and Perspective in Print Culture and Electronic Media" (claims "that perspective is not simply a Renaissance phenomenon; that its temporal and kinetic dimensions actually require electronic media; that these have basic implications for our concepts of knowledge and that a new era in the understanding of perspective is therefore about to begin") (McLuhan Program in Culture and Technology)
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    •  COMPUTERS & COMPOSITION

  • The Alliance for Computers and Writing
  • Chorus: Exploring New Media in the Arts & Sciences ((Todd Blayone, et al. / College Writing Programs, U. California, Berkeley)
  • Composition (Maggie Sokolik)
  • Consumptive Writing (A Fatal Strategy) (unique site that presents an anti-"process" approach to the philosophy and practice of composition teaching on the basis of cross-disciplinary reflections centered on Baudrillard's philosophy) (Matthew Levy, U. Texas, Arlington)
  • Cyberspace Writing Center Consultation Project (collaborative writing instruction between Roane St. Community College, Harriman, Tennessee and U. Arkansas, Little Rock; uses a MOO for consultation between undergraduates in Tennessee and graduate students in Arkansas)
  • CyberSpaces: Pedagogy and Performance on the Electronic Frontier (journal is devoted to issues broken up into three major sections: Pedagogy, Performance, and Intersections; all articles viewable online)(Works and Days 25/26 Volume 13, Numbers 1 & 2, 1995)
  • A Few Selections:
      1. "Building a World With Words: The Narrative Reality of Virtual Communities" (Beth E. Kolko)
      2. "Body Language: The Resurrection of the Corpus in Text-Based VR" (Candance Lang)
      3. "MOO or Mistakenness" (Michael Joyce)
    1. Interface Design for Educational Multimedia (information pertaining to human-computer interface; interface design; cognitive approaches to interface design; and sample applications, notably Cyberbuch, an example of learning with media based on second-year German language acquisition)(Jan L. Plass, U. of New Mexico)
    2. Carole Meyers (Emory U./Georgia Tech U.)
      1. "Technical Writing" (course)
      2. "Communication, Document Design and the World Wide Web" (paper describing an assignment used in a Technical Writing course)
    3. MOO Central (excellent page of links, resources, and information on educational use of MOOs) (U. Pittsburgh) * MOObasics * MOO Tip Sheet for Teachers (Traci Gardner)
    4. Multimedia for College-Level Writing (good collection of links to educational software resources) (Chris Coleman, Humber C.)
    5. RhetNet: A CyberJournal for Rhetoric and Writing
    6. OWLs
      1. Dakota State University Online Writing Lab (OWL) (Patricia Ericsson)
      2. Purdue On-Line Writing Lab
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    CYBERETHICS & CYBERLAW (on Cyberculture page)

    (see also Cybercensorship on Cyberculture page; Copyright Issues on General Humanities Resources page)

     COURSE SYLLABI

    1. "COLLAB-l: CyberWars" ("two seminars being offered at two different geographical sites")
      1. Cynthia A. Haynes (U. Texas, Dallas), "Baudrillard and the Problem of Simulation/Mimesis"
      2. Victor J. Vitanza (U. Texas, Arlington), "Baudrillard and the Problem of Simulation"
    2. Randy Bass (Georgetown U.) A Bigger Place to Play, or, Text, Knowledge, and Pedagogy in the Electronic Age
    3. Michael Hancher (U. Minnesota), Studies in Criticism: Electronic Text
      1. Selective Annotated Bibliography
      2. Seminar Papers
    4. Len Hatfield (Virginia Tech), Open Sesame: Hypertheory/Hyperliterature"
    5. Martin Irvine & William Drake (Georgetown U.), Intro to Communication, Culture, and Technology (core course of the new Georgetown M.A. program in Communication, Culture, and Technology)
    6. Michael Joyce (Vassar C.)
      1. "Phanopoeia/Hypermedia"
      2. "Hypertext Rhetorics and Poetics"
    7. Matthew G. Kirschenbaum (U. Kentucky), Literary Narrative in an Information Age ("How does literary culture perform its age-old ritual of narrative in an era when fragmentary and discrete units of information . . . have become the dominant means by which we communicate")
    8. Glenn A. Kurtz (San Francisco State U.), Multimedia Theory and Criticism (1997) (course)
    9. Jack Lynch (U. Penn), From Epic to Hypertext
    10. David S. Miall (U. Alberta), Reading, Hypertext, and the Fate of Literature (graduate course; includes well-developed set of hyperlinked notes and links)
    11. James J. O'Donnell (U. Penn)
      1. Cultures of the Book (1996) ("explores ways in which the material forms of the 'book,' from antiquity to the present, shape the cultures of those who use them")
      2. Transformations of Language (1991) | Bibliography
    12. Rita Raley (U. of Minnesota)
      1. Electronic Literature and Culture (well-developed, broadly-conceived graduate course on information culture, hypertext, and art; includes good selection of links)
    13. Wendy Gale Robinson (U. North Carolina at Chapel Hill/Duke U.), "Ethics and the Internet" (religious studies course at Duke U. with a deep, well-organized index of online readings and other resources)
      1. Readings and Surfings
      2. Ethics Sources
      3. Legal and Civic Resources
      4. Techno-Cultural Media Resources
      5. Relevant Periodicals
    14. Thoms Swiss (Drake U.) Hypertext and English Studies
    15. Daniel Traister (U. Penn)
      1. "History of Books and Printing"
      2. "History of Books and Printing, 1800-1950"
    16. Transcriptions: Literary History and the Culture of Information (NEH-sponsored curricular development and research project designed to integrate literary and technological studies; includes courses, colloquia, topics pages, and resources that interweave two sets of themes: the current social and cultural contexts that make information so powerful, the past and present engagement of literature with information technologies from orality on) (English Dept., U. California, Santa Barbara)
      1. Selected Courses Relevant to the Technology of Writing:
      2. Alan Liu (U. California, Santa Barbara), The Culture of Information (graduate seminar on the history, philosophy, sociology, and theory of information; attempts to define the parameters for a study of "information" that relates the concept to past ages of speaking and writing, listening and reading)
      3. Carol Pasternack (U. California, Santa Barbara), From Scroll to Screen (explores "the differences in telling a tale orally, in writing, in print, and on the computer screen")
      4. Chris Schedler (U. California, Santa Barbara), "Weaving Webs: Native American Literature, Oral Tradition, and Internet" (course that studies the relation between the rhetorical and narrative strategies of Native American writers and oral traditions; also examines and tests "notions of the Internet as a new form of orality and tribalism against Native American understandings of these concepts")
    17. Gregory Ulmer (U Florida, Gainesville), "Electronic Culture"
    18. John Unsworth (U. Virginia)
      1. "Discourse Networks"
      2. "Theory and Practice of Hypertext"
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     CONFERENCES & CALLS FOR PAPERS

  • Humanities Computing and the Internet: Calls for Papers (U. Penn English Dept.)
  • Advanced Visual Interfaces (May 25-27, 1998, Italy)
  • Beyond Gutenberg: Hypertext and the Future of the Humanities (Yale Univ. Conference, May 1994) | Notes of Proceedings
  • Digital Resources for the Humanities (Sept. 14-15, 1997, Oxford U.) (online papers)
  • Ed-Media / Ed-Telecom: World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia, & Telecommunications (June 20-25, 1998, Freiburg, Germany)
  • From Manuscript to CD-Rom: Reexamining Text, Image, and Performance (UCSB, Feb. 16-17, 1996) (announcement & call for papers) (UCSB French & Italian Dept.)
  • Teaching Communication Skills in a Technological Era (Monash U., Australia, Sept. 16-17, 1996) (Anita Jawary)
  • Untangling the Web (April 26, 1996, U. Calif. Santa Barbara) ("This conference will explore ways that librarians can make the best use of the world wide web in all its theoretical and practical aspects, including organizing and evaluating resources, managing a web server, and using the web for reference, technical services, and instruction") (Andrea Duda / Librarians' Assoc., U. California, Santa Barbara)
  • Western Humanities Conference 1997: Information, Technology and the Humanities (Oct. 17-19, 1997, U. California, Riverside) (includes live online events)
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