Navigation is not trivial

As Markku Eskelinen put it, times change.

The word digital, he says, doesn't carry much descriptive weight any more, as almost every aspect of our culture is more or less digital. In such a situation digital theorists are or could be migrating or even sucked back to their old disciplines that are more than willing to have their fair share of "new media". And then the crucial question becomes how to negotiate and renegotiate the relationships between these two literatures (ergodic literature and non-ergodic): in what terms and in whose. It's also a question of autonomy and authority and there's more to it than the inevitable changes in triviality, although [Eskalinen] has to admit that when teaching cybertext theory nowadays in Finland, the hardest part is always to convince students that navigation is non-trivial.

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Enter Hypertextopia-PHONEREADER Library -- Jean-Philippe Pastor

How to write ebooks ?

Creative hypertextual writers have to construct texts that interact with the needs and desires of the reader.

Hypertextual writing represents a new stage in the long history of writing, one that has far-reaching implications in the fields of human and artificial intelligence, cognitive science, philosophy, semiotics, and literary theory. Hypertext will carry literacy into a new age -- the age of electronic text that will emerge from the "age of print that is now passing."

According to Bolter, cultural literacy is now becoming almost synonymous with computer literacy.

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PHONEREADER Library - - Jean-Philippe Pastor

Technology and shape of new culture

When a new technology with radically different and improved capabilities of communication is first introduced into society, it will profoundly change the culture and, indeed, mark the beginning of a new civilization. Qualities inherent in the technology help to shape this new culture.

New civilizations produce new institutions of power as functions once handled informally become organized, detach as separate power centers, and assert political and cultural dominance.

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Transmitters of culture

To defend the book just for the form of the codex book is to focus on the box and not the contents.

Publishing does not lack, after all, for examples of industries and bureaucracies that have trained themselves around a particular technology and perished with it. Why should the E-book share this fate? If we fail to understand the expressive environment of our time, we will have failed in our duty as transmitters of culture, whether we think the culture to be preserved consists of Dead White Males with their holy works...

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Isolated similarities

Metaphors are culturally-based, and define what those with certain assumptions and presuppositions find real.

The "isolated similarities" are indeed those created by metaphor, which simply create a partial understanding of one kind of experience in terms of another kind of experience. They are grounded in correlations within our experience.

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Critical reading

Basically, many who began by stating that texts could be interpreted based solely on the cultural and social circumstances of the author came to believe that the reader's culture and society shared an equal part in the interpretation of a piece.

If the reader sees it in one way, how do we know that that is the way the author intended? We don't.

Therefore, critical reading seeks to find the contradictions that an author inevitably includes in any given work. Those inconsistencies are used to show that the interpretation and criticism of any literature is in the hands of the individual reader and will necessarily include that reader's own cultural biases and assumptions.

While many structuralists first thought that they could tease out an author's intention by close scrutiny, they soon found so many disconnections, that it was obvious that their own experiences lent a (possibly different) view that was unique to them.

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