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Assigned Text:

Aarseth (Ch 2-4)

Due Today:

ELO Collection

In keeping with Aarseth's observation (from Ch 1) that reading about an interactive work is no substitute for interacting with a work, this reading assignments asks you to spend 1 hour interacting with "electronic literature" (plus about a half hour blogging your reactions).

Visit the Electronic Literature Organization's online anthology.
  1. Spend 10 minutes sampling the offerings, and blog your initial reactions.
  2. Choose 3 works you'd like to explore in greater detail, and explain why. (If you took "Writing for the Internet" in 2008, when we did a very similar activity, please pick different works.)
  3. Spend 10 additional minutes exploring each work. (If you exhaust the work before 10 minutes, pick a different work to fill out the time.) Blog your reactions to each.
  4. Spend 20 more minutes interacting with the works in the anthology; spend this time any way you wish. (You may spend 20 minutes on a particular work, or flit from work to work as whimsy moves you.) Explain why you chose to spend your time this way, and explain what you learned.
  5. Apply some aspect of Aarseth's writing to what you learned through this activity. (Come to class ready to discuss this experience.)

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