Squirrel Tao http://squirreltao.dreamfishery.com The tao of my squirrel paths on the web Sat, 09 Aug 2008 02:03:04 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.5 en Who Reads Hypermediated Tales? Children. http://squirreltao.dreamfishery.com/2006/03/07/hypermediated-tales-children/ http://squirreltao.dreamfishery.com/2006/03/07/hypermediated-tales-children/#comments Wed, 08 Mar 2006 01:30:21 +0000 Jennifer Franklin Elrod Usability New Media Theory Hypermedia Storytelling http://squirreltao.dreamfishery.com/2006/03/07/hypermediated-tales-children/ “Hypermedia art seems to follow a trajectory from the salon to the playground,” writes Mark Marino in his March 1st post on the WRT blog. He speculates about the reasons why, at the present time, children tend to comprise the audience that can best appreciate experimental works of hypermedia, digital fiction and poetry. Children are natural interacters. Children like to use all their senses. They like to play. They like to be physical. They are curious. Adults, on the other hand, Marino speculates, have become more accustomed to boredom. We have become accustomed to relatively disembodied and desensualized forms of interaction with the written word.

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