A List Apart Magazine (ISSN: 1534-0295) explores the design, development,
and meaning of web content, with a special focus on techniques and benefits
of designing with web standards.
These statements of architectural principle explain the thinking behind
the specifications. These are personal notes by Tim Berners-Lee: they are
not endorsed by W3C. They are aimed at the technical community, to explain
reasons, provide a framework to provide consistency for for future developments,
and avoid repetition of discussions once resolved.
"An index of names and resources addressing theoretical aspects of
Communications from a variety of disciplines within the social sciences." Compiled
by Martin Ryder, U.Colorado at Denver School of Education.
"In contrast to the dead ends of hypertext theory and its posthuman derivatives,
cybertext theory addresses the unique dual materiality of cybernetic sign
production and gives us an accurate and heuristic description of how the
textual medium works. " --Markku Eskelinen
Michel Chaouli. Critical Inquiry (31:3) [Spring 2005] , p.599-617.
"Chaouli explains why readers of contemporary fiction are not drawn to the "interactive" fictional
texts one finds on the web and in other electronic form. Among other things,
she stresses that the question of why potential readers of hyperfiction decline
to become actual ones touches on matters far beyond the scope of electronic
textuality, for to learn why hyperfiction maintains only a loose hold on
one's attention is learn what grips a person about traditional, printed literature
in ways not obvious from a perspective lodged in print."
John Tolva. 1995. "I propose to answer this question [how hypertext
will transform our notion of reading] by exploring some fears and anxieties
generated by the interaction of the print-based world and its emerging digital
counterpart."
Magazine sponsored by Eastgate "We connect hypertext people. Readers,
writers, scientists, developers: everyone who needs to stay in touch with
the future of writing."
"In Kairos, we publish " webtexts," which are
texts authored specifically for publication on the World Wide Web. These
webtexts include scholarly examinations of large-scale issues related to
special topics, individual and collaborative reviews of books and media,
news and announcements of interest, interactive exchanges about previous
Kairos publications, and extended interviews with leading scholars."
Mark Amerika is professor of digital art at U Colorado. "It is not
a web site per se, it is not even writing if you prefer to see it that
way, but writing seems well-suited to the Idea of Blog, as does code. Blog
is more a kind of progressive codework (as lived reality) than manifested
outcome.
Mark Bernstein "This paper describes a variety of patterns of linkage
observed in actual hypertexts. Hypertext structure does not reside exclusively
in the topology of links nor in the language of individual nodes, and so
we must work toward a pattern language through both topological and rhetorical
observation." Reprinted from Proceedings of Hypertext '98, Frank Shipman,
Elli Mylonas, and Kaj Groenback, eds, ACM, New York.
"In this essay I will focus primarily on a particular feature of
literary works -- their physical character, whether audial or visible.
I shall be pointing out why these features are important in a literary
point of view and also sketching certain practical means for elucidating
these textual features. " --Jerome McGann
Susan Antliz, KAIROS 6:2 "A preliminary definition of "technopoetics" is
that it seeks to apply aspects of literary analysis to the Web or other
online environments, but also extends beyond the verbal to include the visual,
multimedia, and cognitive/intellectual aspects of the Web."
"TEKKAlogue is a weblog supplement to TEKKA, a subscription-based
Web magazine about enjoying new media and software aesthetics.
… TEKKAlogue offers tidbits of fresh and interesting news on hypertext,
new media, art and technology. TEKKAlogue is itself an experiment
with the weblog as narrative form. Embedded in this blog is an evolving
story, composed by contributing characters. TEKKAlogue seeks to create
a conversation, a critical community."
"This document attempts to be a high-level view of the architecture
of the World Wide Web. It is not a definitive complete explanation, but
it tries to enumerate the architectural decisions which have been made,
show how they are related, and give references to more detailed material
for those interested." --Tim Berners-Lee
Tim Lindgren. KAIROS 10.1 Fall 2005. "This webtext examines the
pedagogical relevance of blogging from the perspective of those committed
to place-based pedagogies. For them, the most pressing concern is, 'In
what ways can blogging help foster a deeper sense of place and encourage
reflection on the relationship between place and identity?'"
Steven D. Krause. KAIROS 9:1. "This text, which has grown out of my own
experiences and a presentation I gave at the 2003 Computers and Writing Conference,
offers a reason and a way to NOT use blogs in the writing classroom."
Places to visit that served as a source for some of these papers
