A multimedia essay on electronic visual narratives

A multimedia essay on electronic visual narratives

Here's a paragraph from this really fascinating essay:
The media and forms of communication facilitated by computers are opening us further to persuasion by virtual experience. They change the scale and structure of our experiences. The World Wide Web goes on and on, chaotically, with virtual lives available in innumerable linked but different dimensions. Multiplicitous in its times and multimediated in its experiences, the allure of its learning far exceeds the labyrinthine library that Umberto Eco used The Name of the Rose to evoke the amazing resources of Western civilization.[29] Yet the Escher architecture of the medieval library tower surely stands also as a postmodern emblem of the coming Net(work). Internet time can be a web crawler's or spinner's, with advertisers already are scrambling to exploit its capacities for persuasion. Computer time is active and playful. Virtual gambling has some advantages over visiting the neighborhood casino. Unhappy about that? Then engage some of the Web sites with activities to alter your moods. Doing persuades, and electronic activities do more than stories.