Reading Digital Fiction offers the first comprehensive and systematic theoretical, methodological, and analytical examination of digital fiction from a cognitive and empirical perspective. Proposing ...the new concept of "medial reading", it argues for the centrality of an audience's interest in, awareness of and/or attention to the medium in which a text is produced and received, and which we argue should be applied to reader data across media. The book analyses and theorises five generations of digital fiction and their reading, including hypertext fiction, hypermedia fiction, narrative video games, app fiction, and virtual reality. It showcases medium- and platform-specific methods of qualitative reader response research across a variety of contexts and settings from screen-based and embodied interaction to gallery installation, and from reading group and individual interview to think-aloud methodologies. The book thus addresses the unique affordances of digital fiction reading by designing and reporting on new empirical studies focusing on hypertextuality, interactivity, immersion, medium-specific forms of textual "you", ontological ambiguity, reader orientation, and empathy. In so doing, the book refines, critiques, and expands cognitive, transmedial, and empirical narratology and stylistics by placing the reader of these new narratives front and centre.
The marriage of narrative and the computer dates back to the 1980s, with the hypertext experiments of luminaries such as Judy Malloy and Michael Joyce. What has been variously called "hypertext ...fiction," "literary hypertext," and "hyperfiction" has surely surrendered any claim to newness in the 21st century.   David Ciccoricco establishes the category of "network fiction" as distinguishable from other forms of hypertext and cybertext: network fictions are narrative texts in digitally networked environments that make use of hypertext technology in order to create emergent and recombinant narratives. Though they both pre-date and post-date the World Wide Web, they share with it an aesthetic drive that exploits the networking potential of digital composition and foregrounds notions of narrative recurrence and return.   Ciccoricco analyzes innovative developments in network fiction from first-generation writers Michael Joyce ( Twilight, a symphony , 1997) and Stuart Moulthrop ( Victory Garden , 1991) through Judd Morrissey’s The Jew's Daughter (2000), an acclaimed example of digital literature in its latter instantiations on the Web. Each investigation demonstrates not only what the digital environment might mean for narrative theory but also the ability of network fictions to sustain a mode of reading that might, arguably, be called "literary." The movement in the arts away from representation and toward simulation, away from the dynamics of reading and interpretation and toward the dynamics of interaction and play, has indeed led to exaggerated or alarmist claims of the endangerment of the literary arts. At the same time, some have simply doubted that the conceptual and discursive intricacy of print fiction can migrate to new media. Against these claims, Reading Network Fiction attests to the verbal complexity and conceptual depth of a body of writing created for the surface of the screen.
This paper presents a tele-wound framework for monitoring chronic wound status based on color variation over a period of time. This will facilitate patients at remote locations to connect to medical ...experts through mobile devices. Further this will help medical professionals to monitor and manage the wounds in more timely, accurate and precise manner using the proposed framework. Tele-medical agent (TMA) collects the chronic wound data using smart phone and send it to the Tele-medical hub (TMH). In TMH, the wound image has been segmented using Fuzzy C-Means which gives highest segmented accuracy i.e. 92.60%, then the wound tissue is classified using proposed Bayesian classifier. The smart phone supported prototype system has been demonstrated with snapshots using very compatible and easy to integrate Hypertext preprocessor (PHP) and MySqL. The proposed system may facilitate better wound management and treatment by providing percentage of wound tissues.
The concept of 'space' bears a long history within the metalanguages of literary studies, especially those concerned with literary narrative. Although space has never been a central category in ...narratology studies, it is a starting point for reflections that lead to the notion of cyberspace. The above requires a conceptual reformulation determined by possibilities expressed and represented in digital languages in the electronic media, often requiring collaboration with the reader. Writing and hypertextual reading develop within a context where the spatial dimension of texts is reinvented. Keywords: space, electronic media, cyberspace, hypertext, narrative. O conceito de 'espaco' conhece larga fortuna na metalinguagem dos estudos literarios, com destaque para os que incidem sobre a narrativa literaria. A partir da sua utilizacao nesse contexto, o espaco, nao tendo sido uma categoria central nos estudos narratologicos, inspira reflexoes derivadas que chegam a nocao de 'ciberespaco'. Trata-se agora de uma reformulacao conceptual que e determinada pelas potencialidades expressivas e representacionais das linguagens digitais em ambiente eletronico, muitas vezes requerendo atitudes colaborativas por parte do leitor. A escrita e a leitura 'hipertextual' desenvolvem-se, entao, num cenario em que e reinventada a dimensao espacial dos textos. Palavras-chave: espaco, ambiente eletronico, ciberespaco, hipertexto, narrativa.
The concept of 'space' bears a long history within the metalanguages of literary studies, especially those concerned with literary narrative. Although space has never been a central category in ...narratology studies, it is a starting point for reflections that lead to the notion of cyberspace. The above requires a conceptual reformulation determined by possibilities expressed and represented in digital languages in the electronic media, often requiring collaboration with the reader. Writing and hypertextual reading develop within a context where the spatial dimension of texts is reinvented.
Se presentó el diseño de un modelo para la gestión de la información digital agraria cubana. Se aplicó esencialmente el método descriptivo, métodos del nivel empírico para recopilar la información, ...métodos del nivel matemático para el procesamiento estadístico, observación para conocer directamente la realidad sobre el funcionamiento de la Actividad AGRIS-Cuba y entrevistas a los expertos. Se recurre a Greenstone versión 2.82 como software fundamental validado internacionalmente. Resultados obtenidos mostraron que la integración de servicios de información científico técnica de avanzada con las nuevas tecnologías requieren una adecuada planificación, organización, dirección, coordinación y control por parte de las administraciones de las Entidades de Ciencia e Innovación Tecnológica el Ministerio de la Agricultura y en el Ministerio de Educación Superior.
The aim at the core of this book is a synthesis of increasingly popular and culturally significant forms of digital literature on the one hand, and established literary and critical theory on the ...other: reading digital texts through the lens of canonical theory, but also reading this more traditional theory through the lens of digital texts and related media. In a field which has often regarded the digital as apart from traditional literature and theory, this book highlights continuities in order to analyse digital literature as part of a longer literary tradition. Using examples from social media to video games and works particularly by postmodern and poststructuralist theorists, Digital Literature and Critical Theory contextualises digital forms among their analogue precursors and traces ongoing social developments which find expression in these cultural phenomena, including power dynamics between authors and readers, the individual in (post-)modernity, consumerism, and the potential for intersubjective exchange.
Twining Salter, Anastasia; Moulthrop, Stuart
2021
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Hypertext is now commonplace: links and linking structure nearly all of our experiences online. Yet the literary, as opposed to commercial, potential of hypertext has receded. One of the few tools ...still focused on hypertext as a means for digital storytelling is Twine, a platform for building choice-driven stories without relying heavily on code. In Twining, Anastasia Salter and Stuart Moulthrop lead readers on a journey at once technical, critical, contextual, and personal. The book's chapters alternate careful, stepwise discussion of adaptable Twine projects, offer commentary on exemplary Twine works, and discuss Twine's technological and cultural background. Beyond telling the story of Twine and how to make Twine stories, Twining reflects on the ongoing process of making.
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