What elements of the fictional text can the characteristics of digital infotech, such as textual openness, permeability, and the link, change?

• Examples from nonfiction
• Growing up Digerate
• INF (L) ECTIONS: Writing as Virus, Hypertext as Meme
• The edges and limits of the text
• Plot and the role of linearity.
• Structure [Growing up Digerate -- Adam's Bookstore]
• Narrator [Patchwork Girl; Afternoon]
• Characterization, Selfhood, and Identity [Cybersuds -- Patchwork Girl]
• Setting [Subway Story -- E-Zen]
• Basic paradigm -- not an electronic book but an electronic library [Califia]
• Genre [Subway Story -- Patchwork Girl]
• Relation of the reader to the tale [Patchwork Girl, Freak Show]
• Hyperfiction as anthology -- a flight from hypertext? [Cybersuds -- Museum]

Last updated: 18 February 2004