For February 4th we will be discussing Marie-Laure Ryan’s Avatars of Story. Most of our class will focus on “Part II: Narrative in New Media,” so focus your reading on this part of the book. However, it is certainly useful to read the introduction and the first two chapters of Part I, which lay out [...]

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January 21st there is no class as it is MLK day. For the following Monday read Aarseth’s Cybertext. Pay particular attention to the first four chapters as this is where we will concentrate our efforts. Once you have done the reading you can post your question/thoughts here (by Saturday the 26th at 11:59PM). Remember to [...]

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David Lynch’s thoughts on watching a movie on an iPhone.
And, here is the video on Monk’s calling the IT help desk. (Thanks Eloy.)
Update: If you are looking for the reference on the KateModern blog, you can find it here.

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Today the first episode of Season Two of KateModern was released. This means that some of the links below might not work. If you are having trouble accessing season one, click here, which should take you to the last video of season one hosted on the lg15 site, you will have to navigate from the [...]

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For class you should watch the first season of KateModern, begin with Welcome to the Roof. There are also two videos that precede “Welcome to the Roof” that you cannot see on Bebo, you might want to watch them first: Spiders and A Friendly Lie. There are over 100 episodes in the first season so [...]

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