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Genre : Hyperfiction
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| What
are the Goals? |
- School assignment
- Creative Self-expression
- Exploration of the capabilities of the new medium
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| Who
are the Audience? |
- Lecturers / Tutors / Classmates
- Friends and relatives
- Those who are interested in hyperfiction (a minority)
- Those who have never read hyperfiction (and those who hated it)
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| Current
Expectations and Tastes of the Audience for this Genre: |
- Right now, this genre is still in the experimental stage.
- For the audience who has never read hyperfiction, there may be
expectations of linearity and coherency (a brought-over expectation
from the print culture).
- For the audience who has encountered hyperfiction, there would a be
expectations of experimentation with hyperlinks and other capabilities
of hypertext such as forms
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frames,
and intertextuality. As the conventions of writing hyperfictions have
not been set down, the users would not expected the unexpected in this
creative genre.
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Other Factors:
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| I am distinguishing the hyperfiction from
online fiction (which is basically a linear print text on screen) |
| Impact
of the awareness of the audience’s expectations and tastes on the way
the writer writes on the web: |
- The main interest is the exploration of the new medium for
self-expression. As there is no commercial market for the hyperfiction
as yet, writers do feel the need to cater to the expectations of
linearity and coherency.
- The motivation of the experimentation may be linked to modern
critical theories, clearly exemplified by Judy Malloy's work
- There is in fact, an interest in providing the audience with a
reading experience that deliberately subverts earlier expectations and
assumptions.
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| A
must read: |
| An
account of reading hyperfiction by Ann. |
| Conclusion:
The way the writer writes is crucially dependent on his/her goals.
User's expectations and tastes are not part of the hyperfiction
writer's goals except as objects for subversion. |
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