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Focusing on: Can Coherence Be Saved?<\/p>\n
An intriguing read, I tend to agree with the author on most of the points expressed in this article.\u00a0 One theme that is visited repeatedly throughout the text is the idea of hypertext vs. the standard novel.\u00a0 Will hypertext replace novels in the future?\u00a0 Games, hypertext and interactive CD-ROMS are given as examples how they compare to a standard novel but also how they will most likely never replace it.<\/p>\n
As stated in the text, most readers “read on” to find out what happens next in a novel, moving linearly, page-by-page, the reader knows what to expect at least in terms of context of a novel.\u00a0 With hypertext and other forms of electronic literature, you have multiple forms as are outlined in the end of the article.\u00a0 Some forms of electronic literature as defined by hypertext immersion, go way off, leaving the reader lost, which in turn relegates that piece of literature to academic study and not for the masses.\u00a0 Spatial immersion would seem a better choice giving the reader some context and control over the text itself.\u00a0 Followed by emotional immersion, which is described allowing the user to choose different outcomes based upon his or her own personal interests.<\/p>\n
I have to concur with the conclusion of this piece.\u00a0 Currently, people usually books when they want to read a story.\u00a0 I do not believe interactive textuality is quite there yet in terms of it replacing the book to tell a story.\u00a0 If history to judge, look at the recent products that are best sellers, such as Amazon’s Kindle or Sony’s eBook Reader, these products demonstrate that people still enjoy the concept of a book that can be read linearly.\u00a0 The next logic step may be to incorporate a type of interactive textuality within the pages of an electronic book; this would help to bridge the gap between a regular novel and selective interactivity.<\/p>\n
Focusing on My Boyfriend Came Back from the War<\/a>:<\/p>\n In Olia Lialina’s My Boyfriend Came Back from the War<\/a>, the work itself has more context than Hegirascope in that the text and imagery relate to the title of the work.\u00a0 However, after the first viewing of this site it appears to follow the hypertext immersion model, as one can traverse multiple paths where one can easily get lost.\u00a0 Like Hegirascope, some paths lead to empty pages such as the following URLs: http:\/\/www.teleportacia.org\/war\/150.htm<\/a> and http:\/\/www.teleportacia.org\/war\/152.htm<\/a>.<\/p>\n Unlike Hegirascope, My Boyfriend Came Back from the War<\/a> seems to differ in a few ways.\u00a0 First, the work appears to be black and white throughout the entire piece, where Hegirascope was a mixture of colors.\u00a0 Hegirascope is a simplistic online text in terms of what one can do with HTML.\u00a0 With My Boyfriend Came Back from the War<\/a>, it utilizes the characteristics not found in Hegirascope.\u00a0 First, it used blinking text, where I do not recall seeing in Hegirascope- although I did not traverse every page on Hegirascope.\u00a0 Second, it uses images where Hegirascope only used text.\u00a0 Third is the use of frames in addition to allowing the user to traverse further by clicking in the frames themselves.\u00a0 Hegirascope was a set of standard HTML pages that one could traverse but it did not take advantage of any advanced HTML features.<\/p>\n Hegirascope took a different approach.\u00a0 There appears to be some sort of randomness accompanied with an automatic meta re-direct to the next page.\u00a0 Second, in some cases the text is the same color as the background.\u00a0 Third, the links around the text also seems to change if the same page is re-visited at a later time.\u00a0 My Boyfriend Came Back from the War<\/a> is more interactive and coherent than Hegirascope in that the user controls his or her path through the work itself and need not worry about the page changing automatically.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Focusing on: Can Coherence Be Saved? An intriguing read, I tend to agree with the author on most of the points expressed in this article.\u00a0 One theme that is visited repeatedly throughout the text is the idea of hypertext vs. the standard novel.\u00a0 Will hypertext replace novels in the future?\u00a0 Games, hypertext and interactive CD-ROMS … Continue reading Coherence \/ Lialina<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[7,28,29,17,4,15],"class_list":["post-207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reflections","tag-electronic-literature","tag-hegirascope","tag-hypertext","tag-interactive","tag-literature","tag-novel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2008\/343\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2008\/343\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2008\/343\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2008\/343\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2008\/343\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2008\/343\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":208,"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2008\/343\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207\/revisions\/208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2008\/343\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2008\/343\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2008\/343\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}