first person
Metaphoric Networks in Lexia to Perplexia
Reading subjectivity into the software interface, N. Katherine Hayles offers a compelling case for computational authorship.
How I Was Played by Online Caroline
Jill Walker's encounter with a participatory, and vaguely sinister, online narrative.
Interactive Fiction
Which alias best fits interactive fiction?
The nominees are:
"Story," "Game," "Storygame," "Novel," "World,"
"Literature," "Puzzle," "Problem," "Riddle," and "Machine."
Read, and decide.
What Does a Very Large-Scale Conversation Look Like?
Warren Sack uses The Conversation Map, a "graphical interface" that analyzes newsgroups and listservs, to analyze the possibilities of discourse analysis itself.
If Things Can Talk, What Do They Say? If We Can Talk to Things, What Do We Say?
The subtitle - "Using Voice Chips and Speech Recognition Chips to Explore Structures of Participation in Sociotechnical Scripts" - tells the story, partly. But there's more in store.