This brave new world of new rhetorics and literacies includes but extends beyond functional technology skills. Just as general relativity and quantum mechanics are not simply classical physics tweaked a bit, hypermedia is not simply words with pictures. “The logic of digital technology leads us in a new direction,” Neil Kleinman (1996) reminded us. “Objects, as well as ideas, are no longer fixed, no longer tangible […] In this space, stories are written that change with each new reader; new material can be added, and old material deleted. Nothing is permanent
– Rick Carpenter: Boundary Negotiations: Electronic Environments as Interface (2009) pg 140
Posted on Saturday December 5th
