is one of
the most frequently cited works when dealing with hypertext theory.
Cindy Selfe has jokingly (Joyce hopes) accused it of being canonical.
Some of the earliest work done in hypertext and developmental writing is
reported on in this essay.
was prepared
for a CCCC workshop on computers and composition research. Joyce calls it
an "effort to address the 'two cultures' problem in hypertext studies
through a process of collision rather than conversation" (7). Through
this essay he tries to bring the concerns of scientists and humanists
together through putting the transcripts of two computer conferences into
storyspace and analyzing them using narrative ethnography and graphical
representations from computer science.
The next three essays Joyce terms as nomadic in the Deleuze and Guattari sense. "[E]very point is a relay and exists only as a relay... [in which] the in-between has taken on all the consistency and enjoys both an autonomy and a direction of its own..." (8). These are theoretical narratives that re-cross many of the ideas discussed in the earlier essays.
was
originally a keynote address.
was also
originally a keynote address.
was
published in Computers and Composition.
