Virtual
Textuality
by Bernhard Dotzler
[German] Interactivity
as Critical Category of
Netliterature
by Gesine Leonore Schiewer
[German] The
Invisible Story. Theses on Characteristics of
Netliterature
by Christiane Heibach
[German] Selfreferentiality
in
Computer-Games
by Susana Pajares Tosca [German] Odyssey
in Writing
Space
by Heiko Idensen [German] Interactive
Fiction and
Software-Narration
by Roberto Simanowski
[German]
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Dotzler
discusses hyperlink as parody of the footnote. He
calls for a literary studies of digital processes,
especially analyses of "Literate Programming". He
announces the shift of literature from being the
medium against death to bearing in mind its own
death.
http://www.dichtung-digital.de/Forum-Kassel-Okt-00/Dotzler
Schiewer
investigates the term interactivity and explores
its potential with regard to art historical and
knowledge-sociological concepts.
http://www.dichtung-digital.de/Forum-Kassel-Okt-00/Schiewer
Heibach defines
"Netliterature" with regard to the net's specific
structure and explains her 10 theses with examples.
The main tendencies she sees for digital
communication are networking and
transformation.
http://www.dichtung-digital.de/Forum-Kassel-Okt-00/Heibach
Tosca draws the
attention of digital aesthetics to computer games
as a hybrid digital form, that brings classical
games and literature together. She reports from a
project which investigates the self concept of
computer game players.
http://www.dichtung-digital.de/Forum-Kassel-Okt-00/Tosca
Working from
his experience in two collaborative writing
projects, Idensen writes and links about/to
utopians, abysses and possibilities of writing in
the net. His thesis: texts on the Internet are open
interfaces for cultural, social, and economic
exchange, in which cultural codes not only appear
as techniques of power and ruling but are
manipulated and redefined.
http://www.dichtung-digital.de/Forum-Kassel-Okt-00/Idendsen
And still the
question remains: What is digital literature and
how should it be evaluated? Roberto Simanowski
looks at these questions. He examines Richard
Ziegfeld's 1989 essay, Interactive Fiction: A
New Literary Genre?, discusses the many terms
that have appeared since and sketches criteria for
evaluation.
http://www.dichtung-digital.de/2000/Simanowski/29-Nov