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Editor's Introduction: Reconfiguring Place and Space in New Media Writing (Q2361)

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scholarly work by Scott Rettberg
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Editor's Introduction: Reconfiguring Place and Space in New Media Writing
scholarly work by Scott Rettberg

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    2006
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    In most hypertext fiction, the role of chronology in structuring the narrative is greatly diminished in comparison to print fiction conventions. In the absence of chronology, the authors of fragmented multilinear narratives need to offer their readers other tools for navigating the text. (English)
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    While installations and VR environments have increasingly liberated the user's body from the seated-in-front-of-screen-at-keyboard position and brought the body inside the ontological space of the work itself, mobile computing and communication technologies are increasingly powerful and pervasive. Writers, artists, performers, and "puppet-masters" are employing network writing strategies to deplo… (English)
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