{"id":63,"date":"2008-07-07T09:09:40","date_gmt":"2008-07-07T16:09:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/?p=63"},"modified":"2008-07-07T09:09:40","modified_gmt":"2008-07-07T16:09:40","slug":"new-media-how-hypertext-is-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/2008\/07\/new-media-how-hypertext-is-it\/","title":{"rendered":"NEW MEDIA: How Hypertext is It?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"drop\">B<\/span>een playing with <a href=\"http:\/\/inanimatealice.com\">Inanimate Alice<\/a> this morning and while I&#8217;m not nuts about the repetitive musical background, the story is nice and the graphics are great (Story #4 just came out recently).<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m wondering, though; while it isn&#8217;t called a hypertext (do arrow pointers count as text?), it isn&#8217;t exactly interactive beyond the do you click to go forward and progress the story in a pretty linear path determined by the author, or do you click back a frame or two, or just click out? We recently had a discussion on what is hypertext exactly, and how it is similar to and different from the defined works such as interactive fiction, or the word hyperfiction or hyperlinks.&nbsp; How much interactive user input is required beyond turning &#8216;pages&#8217; to qualify it? Are user choices necessary so that alternate paths must always be created within the arrangement? In this piece, the only choice to take an alternate was to choose one of four hands that pointed in different directions, or a room of a house plan, or to choice an &quot;album&quot; of photos clearly marked as &#8216;school&#8217; or &#8216;home&#8217; etc.&nbsp; All brought the reader back to the intersecting point to then choose another.&nbsp; As a matter of fact, I believe the previous paths were no longer available for choice (always to me seeming to say &quot;you dummy, you did that already&quot; so we&#8217;re not even going to give you that option.&quot;).<\/p>\n<p>The graphics are great though, and this is an interesting form of new media that I really am getting more and more intrigued by, enough to likely work on it by starting to add more into the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eastgate.com\/tinderbox\">Tinderbox<\/a> projects file.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"drop\">B<\/span>een playing with Inanimate Alice this morning and while I&#8217;m not nuts about the repetitive musical background, the story is nice and the graphics are great (Story #4 just came out recently). I&#8217;m wondering, though; while it isn&#8217;t called a hypertext (do arrow pointers count as text?), it isn&#8217;t exactly interactive beyond the do you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}