{"id":11,"date":"2005-09-01T01:45:20","date_gmt":"2005-09-01T05:45:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2005\/343\/2005\/09\/01\/cybertext-interactivity-and-the-young-hae-chang-heavy-industries-creation\/"},"modified":"2005-09-01T01:46:50","modified_gmt":"2005-09-01T05:46:50","slug":"cybertext-interactivity-and-the-young-hae-chang-heavy-industries-creation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2005\/343\/2005\/09\/01\/cybertext-interactivity-and-the-young-hae-chang-heavy-industries-creation\/","title":{"rendered":"Cybertext, interactivity and the Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industries creation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Aarseth and Bolter seem to emphasized that the main difference between cybertext and traditional printed texts is that cybertext &#8220;involve interactivity&#8221; and allows for more control to the readers.  Aarseth termed the readers&#8217; interaction with cybertext as &#8220;ergodic&#8221; which refers to the readers&#8217; choice leading to numerous variations of reading experiences and results.   I can see how this definition can apply to cybertext such as the <a href=\"http:\/\/iat.ubalt.edu\/moulthrop\/hypertexts\/hgs\/\">Hejirascope<\/a> project, however I do not see how the definition can apply to the Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industries cybertext project of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.yhchang.com\/BUST_DOWN_THE_DOORS!.html\">Bust Down the Doors!<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.yhchang.com\/ALL_FALL_DOWN.html\">All Fall Down<\/a>.  In both &#8220;Bust Down the Doors! and &#8220;All Fall Down&#8221;  it appears that the readers have little control or direct interaction to change the course of the words flashed on the screen.  Textual media seem to be more than just the electronic medium that is used to present the literature and the capability for reader interactions with the text.  Despite the lack of readers&#8217; control within the text the Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industries is considered as a form of textual media because the form of the text incorporate sounds and the continual self-flashing of words cannot be reproduced in print format.  So is the definition of textual media similar to cybertext?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aarseth and Bolter seem to emphasized that the main difference between cybertext and traditional printed texts is that cybertext &#8220;involve interactivity&#8221; and allows for more control to the readers. Aarseth termed the readers&#8217; interaction with cybertext as &#8220;ergodic&#8221; which refers to the readers&#8217; choice leading to numerous variations of reading experiences and results. I can &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2005\/343\/2005\/09\/01\/cybertext-interactivity-and-the-young-hae-chang-heavy-industries-creation\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Cybertext, interactivity and the Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industries creation<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reflections"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2005\/343\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2005\/343\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2005\/343\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2005\/343\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2005\/343\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2005\/343\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2005\/343\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2005\/343\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2005\/343\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}