What does it mean to read new media? How have digital spaces changed the activity of reading? How does reading digital texts?including games, instant messages, digital art and music, and other forms?enlarge our conception of what a text is? Is there a digital canon forming, and what are the consequences of such a move?
We also recognize that every act of reading is also an act of writing?a construction?and that reading cannot be separated from writing. We ask: What happens when writing morphs into composition or design? What sorts of composing processes inform the creation and reading of new media texts? What teaching possibilities lay at the intersection between reading and composing new media texts?
We invite essays and new media texts that reflect broadly on these issues. New media texts will be published in an accompanying CD with print connections (i.e., an author of a new media text can submit an artist‘sstatement to be published in the book and which would point readers to the CD). The CD will also contain selections from the new media projects discussed in the essays. —Reading (and Writing) New Media
I’ve put this one in the way-too-long “to-do” list.
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It seems a bit over-general at this point. Are you focusing on a particular kind of social network? (We can take this conversation into e-mail if you like.)
Digital Media, Metaphysics, and Society (or any combination thereof). I'm still compiling research and tweeking my thesis. Right now, it's: "As human thought and technology progress into new vistas, we are not only constantly challenged to re-examine the dimensions of reality, but also challenged to rethink the dimensions of basic social networks."
I want to focus on the idea of virtual networks, the dimensions they add to text and communication, and the impact this has on people's concept of social networks. If you have any suggestions of things to improve upon or recommend any texts (or digital texts), please let me know!
Evan, I think just an abstract is due on Oct 1. The full paper isn't due for a while yet. What's the topic?
That's funny. I've been working on a hypertext essay for my blog. I don't know if I'll have it done by their deadline, though...