Writing for and with the Web
This class will focus on composition using digital forms. This includes both analyzing digital works and composing digital works of non-fiction and fiction.
Required Texts
- Purchase web space through here:
- 2 Internet-available hypertexts
- Weekly reading from one web comic and one Flash site, suggestions include
- Homestarrunner.com
- Makingfiends.com
- Nuklearpower.com
- Pennyarcade.com
- Explodingdog.com
- RPG Maker
- Online readings: alistapart.com, mezzoblue.com,
- Course Pack with selections from Andrew Rollings and Dave Morris Game Architecture and Design, hypertext criticism, theories of writing and reading (including Iser and Barthes), Derrida on the signature and the archive, women on the web, and more
Possible assignments include:
- Rhetorical Analysis of Ebay Descriptions: Haunted Ebay, of Online Dating Descriptions, of Virus and other email hoaxes
- Collaboratively Writing Blog Fiction and/or Hypertext Fiction
- Collaboratively Creating Flash Interactive (or more filmic works) and/or RPG games using RPG maker
- Collaboratively Producing a Full Web Comic using CUSP