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IMPORTANT NOTE! Lisa's Tuesday AM tute has moved from AS407 to BA1001B as of the 22nd March! This subject aims to critically examine current theory relating to electronic writing and, in particular, hypertext. Does the embodiment of electronic writing in the form of stand alone hypertext applications or in the form of the World Wide Web (through Hypertext Markup Up Language - HTML) change our relationship as readers to the written word? Does electronic writing, as Mark Poster argues, represent a third stage in the mode of information in which "the self is decentred, dispersed, and multiplied in continuous instability?" Alongside these questions, students will be introduced to the basics of HTML and asked to consider the experience of writing in an online, electronic environment (namely, the WWW). What are the rules (if any) which govern this new writing space and to what extent has a rhetoric of electronic writing been developed? Students will be encouraged to rethink the concept of writing and to ask themselves such elusive questions as, what is a medium? Convenor: Lisa Gye (lgye@swin.edu.au)
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