Hypertext / Web Science

December 17, 2010
Stacey Mason

ACM SIGWEB has issued a call for abstracts for the Web Science Conference 2011 . Web science tends to take a broad view of Web concerns, focusing on both its technical and sociological aspects.

Possible submission topics include:

On-line lives: individuals and organizations shopping, dating, learning, networking
Trust and privacy
Evolving technologies – new search technologies, linked data, new Web languages and/or protocols, and emerging application areas
The pro-human web in an unequal world: access, inequalities and agendas for change
Web futures: possibilities critiques and challenges
The web and the state: nationalism, politics. democracy
Governance control and power
Knowledge, education, and scholarship – the potential and effects of crowdsourcing and long tails
Intellectual property and the Commons
The dark side of the Web – such as cybercrime, pornography and terrorism

The submission deadline for abstracts is Feb 28, 2011. The conference will held be in Koblenz, Germany from June 15-17, conveniently following ACM Hypertext 2011 in Eindhoven will take place June 6-9 . Submission deadline for full and short papers for Hypertext 2011 is January 29.

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What We’re Reading

Terrific new media, new and old, that we’re particularly enjoying.

Black Box

Spectacular Twitter fiction from Jennifer Egan, impinging on the world of her novel,A Visit From The Goon Squad.
Patanoir

Simon Christiansen’s brilliantly clever interactive fiction.
Out Of Touch

Christine Wilks’s Out of Touch is an exploration into loneliness and the fetish (and artifice) of human connectedness inherent in social media, a theme to which many of us can relate.
Meanwhile

Andrew Plotkin’s iOS implementation of Jason Smiga’s interactive comic.
Machine #69

by Mark Wernham. Machine #69 recalls Ryman’s 253, and especially Bob Arellano’s Sunshine ’69 both in its embrace of arbitrary connection and its fond nostalgia for the era when cheap booze, good drugs, fast cars and hot guns seemed to offer everything worth wanting and when nothing was worth wanting very much.
afternoon, a story

by Michael Joyce. The first great hypertext fiction, a landmark that repays close study.
Luminous Airplanes

A new hyperromance for the Web. Sparsely linked, La Farge’s new hypertext nods at Stephanie Strickland’s design and to Michael Joyce’s direct address to the reader. but brings a new voice and sensibility to Web fiction.
Changed

Multimedia notes from underground, where a traumatized girl furnishes a cozy space in an underground tunnel. Script by Lynda Williams, music and code by Andy Campbell and Matthew Wright. A web work that’s especially nice on the iPad. (The floor lamp is a nice allusion. Get it?)

Resources

Reading Hypertext

Key readings about Reading Hypertext, edited by Mark Bernstein and Diane Greco. Just published by Eastgate; $39.95.

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Some of the people we’re following lately. (This list changes arbitrarily from time to time; don’t read the tea leaves.)

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Mark Bernstein (chief scientist at hypertext publisher Eastgate Systems)
Stacey Mason (editori at hypertext publisher Eastgate Systems)
Steve Ersinghaus (100 stories project)
Susan Gibb (100 stories project)
Gene Golovchinsky (hypertext and tablet computing pioneer)
Diane Greco (hypertext author and editor)
David Kolb (author of Socrates in the Labyrinth)
Cathy Marshall (inventor of spatial hypertext, co-author of Forward Anywhere, Microsoft researcher)
Jill Walker (University of Bergen)

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