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WHAT: HT2010 Workshop 2. Rhetorical and Semantic Possibilities of Links: Cultural and Literary Applications of Links
WHEN: Sunday June 13
WHERE: Toronto Canada (as part of the 4 day HT2010 conference <http://www.ht2010.org/index.html>)
WHO: Anyone who wants to understand how a link can express meaning and how we use links to communicate (for example, elit writers and readers, social media developers, web developers, and ...you...)
HOW: Submit a position paper by Friday April 30 to deenalarsen@yahoo.com. This paper should address your background, experience in hypertext and hypermedia, and questions that you wish to address have concerning how links work in communication. Notifications will be by Monday May 3 and the last day for early bird registrations is Wednesday May 5.
DESCRIPTION: Mark Bernstein has written that the link is “the most important new punctuation mark since the comma.” More than that, the link actually conveys meaning. But how do people use links to communicate ideas? This workshop is designed to uncover the semantic value of the link and its potential rhetorical effects. We want to know what has been the cultural, literary, rhetorical, and semantic impact of the link to date, and what future effects can we anticipate and bring about. We will explore the link in hands-on exercises and examinations of electronic literature and other hypermedia examples. Ideally, the audience will be broad, composed of anyone who wants to develop a further understanding of this tool.
We seek to network amongst ourselves and to continue the dialogue between the creative members of the hypertext community and those who make the software that enables expression. Exploring how links work will help create new foundations for Hypermedia and Web 2.0 environments (social linking, mapping, visualizing, network linking, etc), studies on adaptive hypermedia (adaptive navigation such as link hiding, linking used in recommendation strategies, and linking methods for personalized libraries and e-learning), highlight our understanding of links as a new component of writing and communication, and increase our understanding of the ways that they are used in education, research, journalism, and literature.
For more information, please email deenalarsen@yahoo.com
Deena Larsen http://www.deenalarsen.net
Jeremy Hunsinger Center for Digital Discourse and Culture Virginia Tech Information Ethics Fellow, Center for Information Policy Research, School of Information Studies, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee http://www.tmttlt.com Whoever ceases to be a student has never been a student. -George Iles