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Thursday, March 5, 2009
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Lexia to Perplexia was unlike anything I have ever read. I agree with Hayles and it seemed like it was alive. A constant about reading print is that the reader is in control. The reader reads at their own pace and reads line by line and page by page. In Lexia to Perplexia, the reader is not in control, the website is. At first I found it amusing and entertaining, but then I soon became frustrated because I was not in control. I think Lexia to Perplexia was very extreme and too wild for the reader. However it definetly shows that the Internet as a medium has a lot to offer and has more capabilities than print.
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I too thought it was really interesting to see a deliberate obfuscation of traditional reader-text power dynamics! It hearkens back to Plato's worries about the loss of power of the orator when their words were converted to print and disseminated to the masses. Lexia to Perplexia is like coming almost full circle, by once again addressing the balance of power.
ReplyDeleteIt is a matter of control, or is it just the idea of a guided intended message. I mean in movies, you can't pick the ending or the characters choices ...do you also feel out of control then?
ReplyDeleteA movie is a guided experience just like Lexia to Perplexia, both don't leave much to the imagination.
Yep it was a lot of fun at first but then i was getting frustrated also because i was not in control. I also agree with Hayles because at times it did feel like the website was alive...which sounds weird.
ReplyDeleteI like your explanation of Lexia seeming alive. This is not like losing control in any other computer program. If I'm using a browser and it isn't working the way I want it to, it won't continue to change its appearance indefinitely like Lexia. It doesn't go through seemingly complex chnages on its own. I suppose the only time I ever experienced this with a browser was when I wrote a fork (a piece of code that runs itself, basically it opens browser windows into infinity). I really felt I had lost control at that point, and the browser seemed to have come to life.
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