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Intro : A Book
Lover Longs for Cyberdrama
All
media as extensions of ourselves serve to provide new
transforming vision and awareness.
----Marshall McLuhan
Our various
improvements not only mark a diminution of
the function improved upon.....but they also
work to dissolve some of the fundamental authority of
the
human itself. We are experiencing the gradual
steady erosion .....of the species itself. ----Sven
Birkerts
Debate
between Janet Murray & Sven Birkerts in
Hotwired 9 July 97
Amazon.com
strongly recommended
Jon Katz's review
columns
Part
1 and Part
2
Interview
with David Gergen October 19,
1997, PBS Newshour
Hot
Norman
Student work from Janet Murray's
Fall 99 Interactive Narrative Class at the Georgia Institute
of Technology
The
Contingent Kiss Sarah Cooper's
three-act interactive story
13
ways of looking at a blackbird
Patrick Ledwell
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PART
I. A NEW MEDIUM FOR STORYTELLING
Chapter
1. Lord Burleigh's Kiss
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Alien Kisses
The Thinking Woman's Feely
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Chapter 2.
Harbingers of the Holodeck
Chapter 3.
From Additive to Expressive Form
PART II. THE
AESTHETICS OF THE MEDIUM
Chapter 4.
Immersion
In short, he so buried
himself in his books that he spent nights reading from twilight
til daybreak and the days
from dawn till dark; and so from little sleep and much reading
his brain dried up and he lost his wits. He filled his
mind with all that he read in them, with enchantments, quarrels,
battles, challenges, wounds, wooings, loves,
torments, and other impossible nonsense; and so deeply divided
did he steep his imagination in the belief that
all fanciful stuff he read was true, that....{h}e decided....to
turn knight errant and travel throughout the world with
horse and armour in search of adventures.
---Don Quixote de la Mancha
Entering the Enchanted Place
The
Society for Creative Anachronism
The
Kids Room a project of the MIT LAB
Finding the Border
Structuring Participation as a Visit
The Active Creation of Belief
Twenty
Minutes Later : The History of ClanRing
Structuring Participation with a Mask
Woggles
at CMU
Structuring Collective Participation
with Roles
Assassins
Guild at MIT (A live action role playing group)
"Lifeboat"
by Marleigh I. Norton, a short role playing game submitted
as a final project for Interactive
Fiction Course
Guide
to current MUDs
Regulating Arousal
A
Rape in Cyberspace Julian Dibbell (Village Voice, 1993)
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Chapter 5.
Agency
Chapter 6.
Transformation
Kaleidoscopic Narrative
Morphing Story Environments
Alternate Star Wars Movies
: Kevin Rubio's "Troops"
Virtual Reality in Haworth Parsonage
Enactment as a Transformational Experience
Refused Closure
Tragedy in Electronic Narrative
The Web of Mourning
Simulation and Destiny
The Multipositional View
253
a navigable story from 253 points of view, set on a London
subway train, by Geoff Ryman
Mass
Transit by Freedom Baird,
set in various New York vehicles
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PART III. PROCEDURAL
AUTHORSHIP
Chapter 7.
The Cyberbard and the Multiform Plot
A plot is ..... a narrative
of events, the emphasis falling on causality. "The king
died and then the queen died" is
a story. "The king died and then the queen died of grief
is a plot." ---E.M.
Forster, Aspects of the Novel
The Oral Bard as Storytelling System
Vladimir Propp and the Bardic Algorithm
The Computer as Storyteller
A
Story as You Like It, based on Raymond Queneau's multiply
assembled story (and other combinatory writing)
Mark's Apology
Note Generator
Selmer Bringsjord's
Story Generation Research
The Shaping of the Human Storyteller
Randy Pauch's free Alice
software (for non-programmers to make Virtual Reality environments)
The Coming Cyberbard
Joseph Bates' OZ
Project
Sheldon
Klein's work at Unversity of Wisconsin
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Chapter 8.
Eliza's Daughters
PART IV. NEW
BEAUTY, NEW TRUTH
Chapter 9.
Digital TV and the Emerging Formats of Cyberdrama
Chapter 10. Hamlet on the Holodeck?
Procedural Authority
Traditions of Virtuosity
Formulaic Invention and Orginality
New Beauty, New Truth |
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