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| Hypertext & Hypermedia: A Study of Cross-genre Texts & Forms Questions |
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| The questions that appear below are ones I
brainstormed to help us open a broad discussion of the issues raised by cross-genre
texts. What do we mean by form? Genre? Cross-genre? Does genre require oversimplification to create broader categories? What do we mean by text? Hypertext? Hypermedia? What is a nonce form? To what degree are web texts/sites nonce forms? Is print text more real than electronic texts? Who are you as a reader? What is your history as a reader? Who are you as a writer? What is your history as a writer? Who are you as an artist? What is your history as an artist? Who are you as a designer? What is your history as a designer? What tools does a generation of new readers bring reading cross-genre texts that older readers do not have or must develop? At what point does asking a reader to break from conventional reading practice break the reader? How does one distinguish between the failure of a reader vs. the failure of a text? Is it wrong to lose your way in a text? Is it wrong for a writer to actively invite your disorientation?What responsibility does an audience bring to cross-genre texts? What is the role of audience? Are hypertexts written for a more narrow audience than other art or literature? What happens when a menu moves out of site or links are disguised, hidden, or misleading? To what degree are writers/artist/creators limited by
reading conventions, web conventions, software? How is the act of reading such texts different from reading books or magazines? What terms will you use to describe texts that break boundaries? That mix text and media? What is the relationship of electronic gaming or "interactive fiction" to print and electronic texts? How has gaming changed reader expectation? What do you know about conventions? What is the history of the book? The envelope? The capital letter? Puncutation? What happens when the machinery of a reader's reading tools misbehaves or is hidden by the writer? hat is the role of the template? Does it have analogous structures in world of physical print? What is the difference between writer centered text and text in which the reader has a large degree of agency? What is the role of illustration in print and electronic texts? How does the branching tree structure built into
computing affect our construction of hypertext?
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