Date: Tue, 21 Jan 1997 15:55
From: Guenter
I'd be very interested in exploring the rhetoric the electronic medium forces on us when communicating in chat rooms etc. I am thinking especially about the so-called "emoticons" :) and abbreviations (lol) which got me pretty confused when I first logged on a couple of month ago. How and why did they evolve, how did they develope, are they still developing, how do the users negotiate their meaning?
Date: Tue, 21 Jan 1997 12:49
From: Debbie
I am particularly interested in exploring the identity of authors in
hypertext and testing the boundaries between author and reader.
While
reading both Joyce and Kelly's articles I was reminded of Walter Benjamin
and Jean Baudrillard's essays regarding the perceptions of image,
representation, and reality. In a digital medium the distinction
between the original and reproduction is blurred. If anyone can
choose how he or she will read a text, the reader in a sense can reauthor
a work according to his or her perceptions.
Following this train of
thought every time the original is read another original is
created.
I want to know how can we determine what is an original and
what is a copy as well as who is the creator and who is the audience.