cybertext
The Role of Imagination in Narrative Indie Games
What binds literature, electronic literature and games is "the shaping and networking of the imagination." Drawing on the ideas of Damasio, Walton and Sartre, Gordon Calleja looks at the synthesizing role of the imagination in narrative indie games.
The Pleasure (and Pain) of Link Poetics
Entering the cyberdebates, Scott Rettberg moves beyond technique and proposes a more generative approach to hypertext, in which an author's intention and poetic purpose have a role.
Materiality and Matter and Stuff: What Electronic Texts Are Made Of
Following Katherine Hayles, Matthew Kirschenbaum agrees that materiality matters.
New Media Studies
Scott Rettberg introduces 'New Media Studies': a cluster of reviews, and a term (similar in its emergence to the term 'Postmodernism').