1. Digital Literacy in Story Spaces
Rebecca Luce-Kapler
Queen’s University
Kingston, Ontario, Canada

2. A narrative isn’t something you pull along like a toy train, a perpetually thrusting indicative. It’s this little subjunctive
cottage by the side of the road. All you have to do is open the door and walk in.

3. We read the incidents of narration as ‘promises and annunciations’ of final coherence, that metaphor that
may be reached through the chain of metonymies: across the bulk of the as yet unread middle pages, the end calls to the beginning, transforms and enhances it.

4. 2 Adolescents
3 Education Students

6. Metafictive
strands
Narrative strands

8. Show me how you began reading the text.
How did you make decisions about
how to proceed?
Did you develop a strategy in reading this text?

16. Joanne:
I find she’s very stream of consciousness which is something that I like if it is done really well. I just don’t particularly like the way that she does it The other challenge I really found was very little dialogue. It’s not usually a huge problem for me, but I don’t feel like anyone’s talking to each other and it all seems so very cerebral I just find the story felt very fragmented as well. I found it very hard to make connections, and she seemed to almost jump from situation to situation and there was very little transition.

17. Stevie:
I think it works because the whole story is thoughts basically I know that my thoughts bounce
from one thing to another so I think it’s almost a stream-of-consciousness. It’s like a written portrait of the human mind almost.

26. Alice van der Klei, 2002
Do we perhaps linger too much on the text and its concepts, having the habits of the ‘monastic archiving reader’? (p. 54)

28. ergodic
ergon = work
hodos = path

29. 64 symbols or hexagrams
which the binary
combinations of 6 whole or
broken lines
By manipulating 3 coins or
49 yarrow stalks according
to a randomizing principle,
the texts of 2 hexagrams
are combined.
4096 texts are possible
-Aarseth

31. Rebecca Luce-Kapler
Queen’s University
Kingston, Ontario, Canada
educ.queensu.ca/~luce-kar