cybertext
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').
The Materiality of Technotexts
A book about books conscious of their materiality, N. Katherine Hayles' Writing Machines draws praise from Raine Koskimaa for its own media consciousness, and blame for embodied emphasis.
Positioning Hypertext in Chomsky’s Hierarchy of Grammars
Jim Rosenberg sends a shot of grammar straight across the bow of Nick Montfort's controversial Cybertext review, adding volume to a volley already in progress.
Towards Computer Game Studies
Literature scholars eager to understand gaming have made early inroads. Markku Eskelinen sets up serious checkpoints.