{"id":73,"date":"2008-08-27T19:33:58","date_gmt":"2008-08-27T23:33:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2008\/343\/?p=73"},"modified":"2008-08-27T23:10:52","modified_gmt":"2008-08-28T03:10:52","slug":"blog-1-thoughts-on-jabber","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2008\/343\/2008\/08\/27\/blog-1-thoughts-on-jabber\/","title":{"rendered":"Blog #1: Thoughts on JABBER"},"content":{"rendered":"

Overall the three electronic literature pieces (Orson Whales, Firefly, and\u00a0JABBER:\u00a0 The Jabberwocky Engine)\u00a0viewed in class were interesting.\u00a0 Of the three I liked JABBER the best.<\/span><\/p>\n

Its functionality is both simple and complex.\u00a0 Simple in that the user pushes a button and watches passively while the program runs.\u00a0 I can’t imagine the programming needed to actually create JABBER.\u00a0 As we discussed in class the letters are attracted to each other based on whether or not they would appear together in a word.\u00a0 They can also form compound words.\u00a0 However at some point it realizes that some letters, though they are “attracted” to certain letters cannot actually be put together to make a real word and “explode” in fiery red letters.<\/span><\/p>\n

I think one evocative meaning to JABBER is asking you to think about how words quickly evolve.\u00a0 For instance, years ago “email” would mean nothing to people; it would be considered a nonsense word.\u00a0 Now email is a word used in everyday conversation.\u00a0 But that meaning is just looking at what the program does.\u00a0 Setting aside what it does you also need to take into consideration the visual effect. <\/span><\/p>\n

When it is first started the letters are moving quickly about the screen and immediately begin to bond.\u00a0 Blue letters representing words or word fragments are quickly formed.\u00a0 Sometimes the blue words combine\u00a0and\u00a0green words appear\u00a0showing compound words.\u00a0 This also happens rapidly, I think it is\u00a0like what may have\u00a0happened when we created words like “cowboy” and “something”.\u00a0 They are still moving around bouncing off the sides and\u00a0other letters that have not yet bonded.\u00a0 And every once in a while the combined letters turn red and “explode”.\u00a0 The exploding words remind me of the explosive nature some words have on people and conversation more so than letters that do not make words.<\/span><\/p>\n

For me, I think that this new media is just the latest way an artist\u00a0can use to\u00a0ask the viewer to look at even the most ordinary thing in a new way.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Overall the three electronic literature pieces (Orson Whales, Firefly, and\u00a0JABBER:\u00a0 The Jabberwocky Engine)\u00a0viewed in class were interesting.\u00a0 Of the three I liked JABBER the best. Its functionality is both simple and complex.\u00a0 Simple in that the user pushes a button and watches passively while the program runs.\u00a0 I can’t imagine the programming needed to actually … Continue reading Blog #1: Thoughts on JABBER<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[7,10,13,4,12],"class_list":["post-73","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reflections","tag-electronic-literature","tag-evocative","tag-firefly","tag-literature","tag-meaning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2008\/343\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73","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\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2008\/343\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2008\/343\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":108,"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2008\/343\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73\/revisions\/108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2008\/343\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2008\/343\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2008\/343\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}