Kirschenbaum (Ch 3)

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/RachelPrichard/2008/04/el_336_kirschen_1.html#comments

"The more deeply digitalization penetrates the more efficient the process becomes. This has immediate and tangible repercussions on our technologies for reproducing texts and images."

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/KaylaSawyer/2008/04/kirschenbaum-ch.html

http://jerz.setonhill.edu/EL336/2008/kirschenbaum_selections_1.php

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/DaniellaChoynowski/2008/04/they_are_resting_places_within.html

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/DaniellaChoynowski/2008/04/100_and_still_grasping_at_stra.html

Agenda Item
http://blogs.setonhill.edu/LeslieRodriguez/025355.html

"...we find evidence that at one time this disk had at least two other games stored on it: Dung Beetles, and Blitzkrieg" "Beloved by some collectors and pored over by historians of reading and writing, a floppy disk image can reveal the hand of the reader or user." (Kirschenbaum p,127)
My blog entry:
http://blogs.setonhill.edu/JeremyBarrick/2008/04/el336_kirschenbaum_game_after.html

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/DavidCristello/2008/04/ch_3_kirschenbaum.html

"Digitization is the process by which complex units are made simpler by breaking them down into smaller units. (Kirschenbaum, Mechanisms 134)"

Trackback: http://blogs.setonhill.edu/ChristopherUlicne/025360.html

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/StormyKnight/025363.html

Screenshots with commentary describing a recent player's (not exactly polite) attempt to solve Mystery House.

http://sydlexia.com/mysteryhouse.htm

From this reviewer's conclusion: "While it's kind of sad that that many people were willing to pay $24.95 for a simplistic text adventure with rudimentary monochrome graphics in an era when systems such as Atari 2600 and Intellivision offered home gaming experiences in stunning technicolor, it's a good thing they did. Without the success of this mediocre game, the world never would have gotten to experience the brilliance of games such as King's Quest, Space Quest, Leisure Suit Larry, and Phantasmagoria. Mystery House may have been a weak start, but it was a start nonetheless."

My blog:

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/JeremyBarrick/2008/04/el336_kirschenbaum_agenda_item.html

Informal Reflection
http://blogs.setonhill.edu/LeslieRodriguez/025365.html

"My argument, then, is this: computers are unique in the history of writing technologies in that they present a premeditated material environment built and engineered to propagate an illusion of immateriality; the digital nature of computational representation is precisely what enables this illusion--or else call it a working model--of immaterial behavior. (Kirschenbaum, Mechanisms 135)
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Trackback: http://blogs.setonhill.edu/ChristopherUlicne/025366.html