June 06, 2005
Multivariant Narratives
On Textuality and Narrativity
"...A truly digital text, or narrative, is one that cannot be transferred into the print medium without significant loss. It depends on the computer as a sustaining environment, and it uses the screen (or any other display device) as a stage for performance.
What, then, are the properties of digital media, and by extension of digital texts, that bear upon the development of narrative? Several new media theorists (Murray, Manovich) have offered their own lists of distinctive features or essential properties of digital systems. The list proposed below is a distillation of the features I regard as the most relevant to the issues of textuality and narrativity..." From Multivariant Narratives by Marie-Laure Ryan.
Posted by jo at June 6, 2005 09:30 AM
