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Cyber|literature and Multicourses: Rescuing Electronic Literature from Infanticide

In response to Nick Montfort's review of Cybertext, N. Katherine Hayles coins an alternative term, Cyber|literature.

Before and After the Web: George P. Landow (interviewed by Harvey L. Molloy)

George Landow talks with Harvey Molloy about personal projects and future Web speculations.

Henry Jenkins responds

Who says hypertext readers have more brains than gamers? Not Henry Jenkins.

Hope for Empowerment, Fear of Control

Jan van Looy reviews Silvio Gaggi on hypertext fiction up to the early '90s.

Of Tea Cozy and Link
Resistance Through Hypertext: ACTing UP in the Electronic Classroom
The Pixel/The Line

For all the talk of cyber-difference, screens still behave like pages. The contributors in section six have developed, in response, a digital aesthetics unlike that of print.

Digital vs. Traditional?

Luc Herman reviews the collection, Cyberspace Textuality by Marie-Laure Ryan, and warns against the creation of a false dichotomy between the digital and traditional print text.

Cybertext Theory: What An English Professor Should Know Before Trying
Cyberinthian Ways

Linda Brigham hypercontextualizes contemporary philosophy.