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Interactive
media for children and young adults. A
report [German]
Judith Mathez
introduces the research project of the Swiss
Institute for media for children and young adults
in Zürich and its major topics on interactive
and digital media.
http://www.dichtung-digital.com/2002/03-01-Mathez.htm
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using and
developing the collaborative writing-tool nic-las
and its extensions [German]
"user use media
- media use user - new media need a culture":
joachim maier and rené bauer have been
working and experimenting with their writing- and
media-tool nic-las for some time. nic-las offers a
so-called "schwebendes schreiben", hovering writing
and has been tested in different seminars at
universities. in their unique style maier and bauer
describe those tests and the specific
characteristics of the new tool as well as its
cultural and media embedding.
http://www.dichtung-digital.com/2002/03-01-Bauer-Maier.htm
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Jane Yellowlees
Douglas: "The End of Books - or Books without
End?" [German]
Beat Suter
reviews "The End of Books - or Books without End?"
by Jane Yellowlees Douglas. The central question of
the book is how to read a hyperfiction. How do I
approach digital literature? Besides the well-known
textual hypertexts by Moulthrop and Joyce Douglas
considers a few so-called "digital narratives"
(selected games) in her thorough research. And
Douglas outlines something called "New Realism", a
phenomenon which will shape the future of
reading.
http://www.dichtung-digital.com/2002/02-25-Suter.htm
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Website
www.game-culture.com -
a
Website-Review [German]
A center of
information for game studies or a private
collection of resources? Anja Rau tries to find out
if the editor Sue Morris reaches the indicated aims
with her website www.game-culture.com. Are the
presented information really significant for the
gaming community? Rau's contribution starts with
the fundamental question of how to review a
collection of online-resources, it is the followed
by a review of the details of game-culture.com.
http://www.dichtung-digital.com/2002/02-25-Rau.htm
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Cyberhypes.
Prospects and Limits of the Internet
[German]
Surrounded by
computers, stuck in the middle of a Mall... The 14
contributions in this collection by Rudolf Maresch
and Florian Rötzer - a follow up to "Mythos
Internet" - reviews the Internet some years later
and talk first of all about victims and loss. The
Internet has grown up, removes the the nose
piercing and looks for a job
http://www.dichtung-digital.com/2002/01-06-Simanowski.htm
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Mythos Internet
[German]
The 17
contributions of this collection discuss what is
truth and what is myth about the predicted Internet
society. What David J. Bolter develops with respect
to media history and Marx' 6. Feuerbach thesis -
the individual as sum of its links -, Mark Poster
points as: The Internet resembles more Germany than
a hammer
http://www.dichtung-digital.com/2002/01-05-Simanowski.htm
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