[iDC] how long is a piece of string?
Katharine Willis
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Mark Shepherd
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Katharine Willis
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A narrative is essentially a piece of information undergoing change. A story unfolds and ideally the process of unfolding is interactive - the storyteller reacts to an audience or weaves in pieces of information that tap into people's memories or hopes. So, as you say, it responds to the condition of in-betweenness (for more on this topic and how it applies to public spaces see karen martin and colleague's workshop on inbetweeness http://www.inbetweeness.org/) .
Mark Shepherd
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[Pask's] Conversation Theory may be worth revisiting for a way of thinking through how the act of story-telling–as something that unfolds over time–produces a "shared" space "between" actors resulting in "outcomes" to which neither can lay claim to exclusive authorship.
Peter Timusk
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Brian Holmes
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Brian Holmes again
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Well, yes. Along these lines, I've been reviewing Austin's theory of performative and constatative language and Goffman's dramaturgical sociology.
The print medium does have an interesting effect of narrative.
For instance, it's interesting to see how much of a story can be left out by working with the mind map process we've been using in class.
After working through a few blocks of the plot, you're immediately aware how much writing was simply used to link sentences on the page, in other words, while it's true that a book is like a database and can be read in any order the reader chooses, a good deal of a story gets written so that it can be read or represented as linear.
Winter's Night is a great example. Some of the text could have simply been left out had Calvino written as a hypertext.
Whereas The White Album, I think, probably already is a hypertext. Still, it's interesting to think about what Didion would have linked had she coded The White Album rather than typed it.
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