Textual Media

This has been an interesting class, I have been introduced to new things that I never would have experienced or appreciated. I can not say that I have enjoyed all the types of work that we looked at but there have been a few that I thought were interesting i.e. My Boyfriend came back from the war piece. I never really appreciated the saying that a picture has a thousand words until after we dissected that piece in class. Also the Nine piece was amazing because you have the picture with the words, and it represents this persons life history. I can not really say that I enjoyed the hypertext and the interactive fiction section of the course. I found those very frustrating and not enjoyable at all. I definitely did learn new things in this class, I learned that there are different structures of interactive narratives, and that what may work well for once does not necessarily do the same for the others. I also learned that there are different aspects of interactivity in electronic literature. The aspect of this class that really coalesced these points for me was when I did my textual media experiment. I had to think about these ideas, who my audience is, and what my point of view is before I started working on it. During the course of the experiment, I had to implement the different aspects of electronic literature that I had learned in this course. This really made me appreciate all the other works that we looked at in the course of the semester. I am glad that I had exposed myself to this different genre of literature instead of taking the normal print form, that was required for my literature requirement. Thanks for a Knowledgeable semester.