For this Twine task, I took inspiration from the choose-your-own adventure books that I grew up reading. I wanted to create a pathway through the hypertext that I created that led to the ideal possible outcome, which in my story was being hired for your dream job at a very peculiar company. The ability to interact with the pieces of writing in a variety of reading orders, as mentioned by Bolter (2001), really reinforced for me a strength of hypertext. The reader is able to have a higher level of interactivity with the text, which I found to be more engaging than simply reading through a passage. Typically, higher levels of engagement and enjoyment can be linked to higher levels of comprehension of what was being read.<\/p>\n
The generation of the text was very organic, with no prewriting or thought to structure, as opposed to the steps I would take writing a traditional narrative text. A strength of the Twine platform was the malleability of the passages, manipulating them as I wrote rather than designating the organization beforehand. While being very familiar with conventional prose writing, I had minimal experience working with this type of coding language. The data structures provided within the Twine program really allowed for me to visualize the hypertext and the interconnection between the passages.<\/p>\n
The ease of the creation and visualization of this small hypertext Twine story really\u00a0 opened my eyes to the sheer size and accomplishment of the texts that are being produced as\u00a0 part of the Internet. We as people seem to place significantly different values on traditionally printed text than that found within the online sphere, when the main difference exists solely on the manner of interaction. Bolter\u2019s (2001)\u00a0 point about needing to negotiate the remediation of printed text and electronic writing really resonated with my experience since I needed to rely upon traditional printing skills to complete this story, but applying them in a new, code-based digital environment.<\/p>\n
References<\/p>\n
Chapter 3\u00a0<\/u>of\u00a0Bolter, Jay David. (2001).\u00a0Writing space: computers, hypertext, and the remediation of print<\/em>. New York, NY: Routledge.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" For this Twine task, I took inspiration from the choose-your-own adventure books that I grew up reading. I wanted to create a pathway through the hypertext that I created that led to the ideal possible outcome, which in my story was being hired for your dream job at a very peculiar company. The ability to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":86830,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/litt540\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/litt540\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/litt540\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/litt540\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/86830"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/litt540\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/litt540\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/litt540\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26\/revisions\/29"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/litt540\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/litt540\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/litt540\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}