2. Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart, the center cannot hold. Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world. - W. B. Yeats, “The Second Coming”

3. Hypertext and the Evolution of the Modern English Language Nerd Night Presentation May 12, 2011 By Jenna Duncan Writer, Instructor @ GCC

4. A term coined by theorist Theodor H. Nelson in the 1960s: “Non-sequential writing—text that branches and allows choices to the reader, best read at an interactive screen…” “Non-sequential writing—text that branches and allows choices to the reader, best read at an interactive screen…” Text chunks that lead the reader down different pathways. Example: “New Perverse Logics” http://www.cyberartsweb.org/cpace/body/dgmt/main.html http://www.cyberartsweb.org/cpace/body/dgmt/main.html

5. Vannevar Bush’s concept: “Chains of links might themselves comprise a new form of scholarly writing.” “Chains of links might themselves comprise a new form of scholarly writing.”InteractivityIntertextuality De-centering (of power) AccessibilityMulti-platformMultimedia

6. What is intertextuality? The relationship between texts—especially literary ones! Postmodern LiteraturePostmodern Literature Heteroglossia (many meanings within one text) - Bakhtin

7. Convergence Culture

8. CENTRAL DEVICE C OMMUNICATION Text Visual Vocal Interpersonal Physical/ body language P HYSIOLOGICAL N EEDS Food SleepAir Companionship E NTERTAINMENT Gaming Video

9. Evolution of Texting: From Cuneiform to OMGEvolution of Texting: From Cuneiform to OMG

10. Acronym-ity

11. De-Centering the Text Derrida – Abandon our conceptual system! Rethink ideas of: CenterMarginsHierarchyLinearity

12. De-Centering the Text Replace with: MultilinearityNodesLinksNetworks “All texts have variable applications and purposes” (Jenkins 106)

13. R EVOLUTION ! - Hypertext changes how we speak and how we are spoken to. - Levels the playing field; democratizes texts “Almost all are party to this paradigm shift…” - Jenkins We are all connected, we are all “textual,” we are all empowered, we are all user/generators!* * with some exceptions: ie. Third World, victims of oppressive regimes, the incarcerated

14. R EVOLUTION /E VOLUTION But it comes with some warnings… 1.Impersonal – everyone sitting around, privately using; a “denaturing” of language 1.Validity – Instant info. = good info.? 2.A deprecation of the language: If the rules change too fast, we no longer have a common ground upon which to stand; we no longer have a base of language to understand one another. “Things fall apart, the center does not hold…”

15. Be Empowered - Use Hypertext “The Machine is Us/ing Us” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLlGopyXT_g

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