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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

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

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

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

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

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