cybertext...
Finally understood a bit of the what cybertext is about... so cybertext is a category under which hypertext, interactive fiction etc is a subset of? Anyway, my attempt to answer question 2...somehow it seems as though something is missing... i think i am missing some points..but i can't think of anything now.. :(2. Espen Aarseth defines cybertext as a perspective on textuality, which considers a work as a textual machine, and sees the reader as having to make a non-trivial effort to traverse the text. Discuss whether Scott McCloud’s “Carl” comic strip can be considered a cybertext.
Scott McCloud’s comic strip, I believe, is not really a cybertext. While the presentation of the text is different, therefore, presented in frames which change the experience for the reader, the reader is not really a player. The reader does not really have a stake in the flow of the narrative. He or she has not much narrative control and is therefore not put in any risk within the story. There is not much room for variability. The reader is essentially powerless and cannot alter the narrative. He can only perceive it in various ways but cannot really experiment with it. In addition, he reads it from a third person perspective.
posted by shamanthayan @ 8:26 PM
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