This sentence still exists! Cool. And you can add to it, still. Coolx2.

Overview: https://whitney.org/Exhibitions/Artport/DouglasDavis

The Sentence: http://artport.whitney.org/collection/DouglasDavis/live/Sentence/sentence1.html

How to add to it: Description

"The Sentence has no end. Sometimes I think it had no beginning. Now I salute its authors, which means all of us. You have made a wild, precious, awful, delicious, lovable, tragic, vulgar, fearsome, divine thing." —Douglas Davis, 2000

ha! start-up. Ha.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fCmAD0TwGcQ Wow. Just the clouds. This reminds me a bit of the Garfield comic remix, where the text is taken out and the images tell a different story ....

Great quote and still true today? I think so. Maybe. Remix culture ...

And

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l2z_J7KNs8I

Check out the media piece, via Vimeo

https://vimeo.com/30022802

So, it's the art created, not the tool that creates the art. This seems important to me, even today.

Good way to define the possibilities ...

Huh. U2 won Grammy for Alt Music in 1994 for Zooropa, which we (my friends, and I) all thought was an odd album because it sought to be inspired by technology and the emerging digital world.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JkNov5CSKQY

I often wonder, what is the tipping point in new technology, the point where someone says, hey -- this can become art if only we do ... this. It's probably something we only realize later.

How about that, this web site is still alive http://jodi.org

I really enjoyed the first episode and its commentary on our daily routines. I used to find myself waking up, too, and immediately going online & on social media - recently, I've been trying to break the habit, and not make it the first thing I do. But I guess the real question, and also sad part, is that so much of our life is connected to our digital personas, so how far can we really remove ourselves from it? If we don't check our email or Twitter first thing in the morning, what important information (either related to our work or our school) are we missing?

It sucks that so much of our life is so attached to social media, in that we have to give ourselves (our privacy, our information, our careers) to digital space; consequently, as Brett discusses, that same necessary input of our own personal information is then used to the benefit of companies who want to buy access to our lives to sell us shit.

What was most startling to me upon watching the first episode is that the site knew exactly what town I was in and what time of day it was. I was not expecting that. And, then, it was interactive in that we could input info if we wanted to. That is vastly different from the current movie experience. It individualized the experience of the work but, in this context, I'm not sure if I wanted it to be individualized!

He is doing a great job in teaching people out in the world the dangers of internet with tracking especially by making those cool videos.

During tonight's studio visit with Brett, I found the idea of privacy and the digital landscape to be vastly intriguing. What I wonder about specifically is if this constant "watching" or surveilling/tracking has made us as a whole more performative--because we believe that we're always being watched. As evidence of this I would present the uptick I'm sure we've all noticed in "inappropriate content" being posted to these public, digital platforms (i.e. the Logan Paul & Suicide Forest video on Youtube (since removed), or the Facebook live vid of these 2 girls in Australia brutally beating up a mentally disabled girl, or the instagram live vid of a girl posted after a car accident which killed her sister). I wonder if the acknowledgment that we're being consistently watched or monitored has negatively informed our behavior in some big ways--that we feel posting this kind of content is okay and acceptable now. I guess I'm more interested in the social ramifications here of the tracking.

I was unaware as Brett mentioned in the hangout that the greetings for the time of day were programmed into the experience, that the web site knew what time of day it was and where i was. This is very basic, but the fact that I did not consider it anything other than a friendly greeting directly to me.

I really would like to learn more about his practice.

I hope to watch this studio visit, live. It will be a pleasant 7:30am on Wednesday morning in Central Australia and I'll be chomping breakfast (that's the plan of this documentary). I'm thinking about SlowTV (https://www.cbsnews.com/news/norways-slow-tv-fascinating-viewers-for-hours-or-days-at-a-time/) as made for these days of assumed-fast internet streaming capability.

What do you think of in terms of documentaries? Like films about history or animals in Africa?

There is an entire genre of web-based documentaries, or i-docs -- these are ones that take advantage of the networked and non-linear capability of the web as a medium

I agree, internet is not all that evil, but of course if you let it become something greater that you can not control, than it will be considered evil.

Chasing dog with leash... ok. back. I'm not an expert here, but I have annotated with Diigo, which is not a dog.

This guy hardly annotates, he needs to step up his game!

Greetings wise, experience annotator, sort of like a wizard, eh? How experienced would you say you are in using this tool? What advice would you/will you give to others?

(one might me to add the netnarr tag below, right?)

Well, you are here. You are in the world. You can annotate any thing you select on this web page, or you can reply to someone else's.

Always try to remember to add the netnarr tag below so we can group all annotations across all the digital alchemists.

Is this not like magic? Speaking of which, you can add web links and images, even animated gifs

I was one of the open students of NetNarr, and that potential of merging a class of students with open participants via something like Hypothesis has potential for enriching conversations and differing viewpoints (not sure NetNarr quite got there but it showed a way forward)

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This paragraph contains some key findings here ...

This addresses my query above ...

I guess there is always cultural conflicts -- from within as well as from without

Interesting ...

I wonder, was there pushback for this kind of social media/cultural appropriation and remix from elders? Is there a line where this work might bend into inappropriate? (I guess there is always a line)

The power of story to change our minds and combat stereotypes ... excellent!

Interesting insight. So, the social networking is more than just connecting. It is building a network in the belief that it will be needed, for some crisis, down the road, and when that comes (which is considered inevitable), the network will be the center of survival or cultural identity or support.

And it reduces the sense of isolation. We are not Alone.

This is an important point of discovery and inquiry ...

Tragedy always exposes fault lines. That these young people feel like targets for racism is sad. Not surprising, though, and maybe that is even worse (that they would be targeted is not a surprise in this current political climate)

This is part of the interesting nature of the Networked World, right? Sort of like the game of Telephone, except not only is the story changing as it gets passed along, so too can the context of the story, and suddenly a non-political parody, for example, becomes interpreted very differently.

And where is the line that they might cross between civic duty to make visible the strange world of cultural identity and nationalistic politics, and the world of having data gathered on you in legal settings? How many don't even bother to find that line but instead, remain silent?

In this way, the networked narrative takes on multiple meanings -- both as connector points and as means for being overheard and perhaps, having one's words (sometimes out of context) used against you.

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Higher Ed wants to know how digital technology improves learning. "How do we show that teaching improves learning? Higher Ed has done such a poor job of focusing on learning that there isn't actually any way of defining or examining what's going on in the learning process." Bret Eynon in an interview with Gardner Campbell 4/7/2017

https://youtu.be/GyJBfI9bgMI

I wouldn't say be like you, rather to be a better version of themselves.

I could not agree more. I have suffered due to some of my professors refusal to accept certain present means of doing things. I don't particularly like every aspect of change, but when someone refuses to keep up with the times in much required areas it can be stagnating for many others

This is both true and false at the same time. Of course an individual's character is built over time through a certain type of conditioning, but not all millennials are privileged. Everyone needs to be crafted, but never assume that we are so lazy that we don't want to improve ourselves without being told to do so.

I was thinking this the entire time until it was finally addressed here. Felt like the topic totally derailed.

Never presume/assume anything. It's an awful personality trait.

I love how protestors act more out of fear than than out of reason. Some of the most irrational people that I have ever beheld are protestors and it seems like they don't even think before they act

This seems like something you would lead into with some prior facts regarding an individual who too such action. It's just a bunch of rhetoric without any ground to stand on, any proof.

Perhaps this was an issue that should have been addressed with the teacher ahead of time, informing here that the student has dyslexia and that the use of the tablet enables them t takes notes more efficiently? I know plenty of people who sometimes work better with electronics, myself included.

This statement no doubt comes on the back of "trigger warnings" of content and curriculum and campus events in some places. How widespread is the concept of Trigger Warnings, I wonder?

A solid call to action. Will it remain buried here in the bottom of Sean's piece? Or will it be sent across the channels of professors and administrators?

Agreed. The violence became the story, not the criticism of Murray's views on race and intellect.

We need their voices, and we need their passion. We need their calls for equity and social responsibility. We don't need the violence that mars the underlying importance of the protest.

No, they prob would not. But that doesn't mean you shut a talk down. You can protest it in other ways. Certainly, Murray's views and writing needs a lot of pushback, as he is prob one of those who was on the fringes and now suddenly finds himself in vogue (in Trump/Bannon World, anyway)

Let's also keep in mind the Middlebury demographics: mostly white, mostly upper middle class, many rich, and it has deep roots of white male power. A typical New England elite school. It is really despair that led to this? Or was it an opportunity for protest that got out of hand when the students realized their collective power in the moment?

We have a friend of our family (friend of our eldest son) who just started at Middlebury in February and we've been wondering about him, and his impressions of the campus after this event.

Curious to know if this was college level or high school or what? It does seem that public schools are only slowly realizing the computing power and possibility of devices in the classroom.

The latest Pew focus seems to be on cybersecurity and social media use. I couldn't find any mention of 'creators', or critical thinking either. http://www.pewinternet.org/category/publications/

Like much online, it's difficult and time consuming to separate fact from fiction. A year after this study was published The Sims Online ($9.99/mo) was rebranded and another year later shut down according to Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sims_Online

Ashley Richardson is the avatar of Laura McKnight, a middle schooler from Palm Beach, FL. according to Jenkins' article in https://www.technologyreview.com/s/402737/playing-politics-in-alphaville/

Heather Lawver still has a blog; http://www.heathershow.com

Blake Ross found out he has no ability to visualize; http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/aphantasia-software-engineer-blake-ross-writes-mind-blowing-post-about-being-unable-to-imagine-a7000216.html

Josh Meeter makes animations for sporting events and short films: https://vimeo.com/99398204

The students I meet lead completely mediated lives, are afraid of social spaces as potential places of conflict and uncritically consume vast amounts of commercial media.

As a retired worker, adult learner and student representative after returning to a community college, I've been encouraging Administrators and Faculty to model the "skills, knowledge, ethical frameworks, and self-confidence needed to be full participants in contemporary culture." I've had little success and will be leaving schools just as mired in the past as they were when I arrived six years ago. Despite spending nearly $200M a year, my CC District is on the lower end of recent CC statistics. http://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2017/03/15/520192774/national-survey-shows-high-rates-of-hungry-and-homeless-community-college-studen

As a retired worker, adult learner and student representative after returning to a community college, I've been encouraging Administrators and Faculty to model the "skills, knowledge, ethical frameworks, and self-confidence needed to be full participants in contemporary culture." I've had little success and will be leaving my schools just as mired in the past as they were when I arrived six years ago. Despite spending nearly $200M a year my CC District is on the lower end of recent CC statistics, yet they continue to create new administration positions while the four college libraries close during evening classes and are only open a few hours on Saturdays. http://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2017/03/15/520192774/national-survey-shows-high-rates-of-hungry-and-homeless-community-college-studen

The focus of the latest Pew reports seem to be on cybersecurity and social media use. I couldn't find any mention of 'creators', or critical thinking either. http://www.pewinternet.org/category/publications/

Most of the students I meet lead completely mediated lives, are afraid of social spaces as potential places of conflict and uncritically consume vast amounts of commercial media.

Also a blog post The Kangaroo - Scene I that explains this a bit more. I really enjoyed the Hangout and the NetProv examples given. I'd love to go to those classes!

My Child, You are no ordinary woman at all. You were the One who saved your people and your world. In the end, your Love was more powerful than any virus. Sleep well. Sleep the sleep of heroes. Dream deep. The Gods watch over you.

Yes. We let Him call to You. We folded His World into Your World. We let His Words dance across the skyline, from falling stars, so that you might hear Love again, and connect.

What you say as "falling out of the sky," we see as the juxtaposition of folded worlds. Warriors from one world can find solace in those of another world, even a world in decline such as your own.

And this is the moment we watched for -- the moment when Humanity reaches beyond itself to the Other. We were well-advised to watch your Story unfold this way, Child.

Yes, Child. And No. Our worlds spin in many different ways, and move beyond time and space. As Gods, we fold worlds on top of each other. As you do with Origami, so we do with worlds. Where the edge of one World meets another World, strange things can indeed happen.

One is never just oneself. One is always Us, too. You were indeed a vision from the Gods. You wander but you are not Lost.

As your choice was made, so too was your fate. And although you may not yet have faith, there are many among us who root for you and your survival. You have hidden prospects, buried deep into your soul. Find the map and the way forward will be revealed. Lose you way and all will be lost.

As Gods, we move in Metaphor. Your pipe journey was indeed one. Which path will you take? How will your heart guide you? Every path we take is important. Every choice -- the choice of a lifetime. Choose carefully.

So it is. Yet. Hidden there, in the mirage, is the alternative world you cannot yet see. There are vast oceans and rivers, and a world of green as far as your eyes can see. But you cannot yet see it. And what you cannot yet see, you cannot yet experience. Time moves onward.

In this Remembering, we help. We ensure that you, who want to remember, will remember, and that the stories you tell in the future of this time will be balanced with the Good of the World. This is our gift to you.

Indeed, Child. Indeed.

From the skies, we watched them. Watched her. Watched the ways they cared for one another. Or didn't. We wondered: what threads of Humanity might remain when faced with the challenges of a lifetime? Some might call us playmakers. But as Gods of the Sky, we were increasingly worried about Humanity. A challenge was in order. We did not know if they would meet the challenge.

A neat example is "War of Words" developed for most VR platforms: http://www.bdh.net/work/war-of-words-vr/

Here are some works of e-literature that engage video game genre: http://iloveepoetry.com/?p=10359.

Part of what's so good about children's books is that they are multimodal and interactive by design-- they pop up when you open the pages, or have tabs you can pull, or textured materials to touch, plus images-- all of which get abandoned for unimodal text based writing. Portable touchscreen devices (tablets, and such) allow for some interactivity and multimodal composition, so they've become an rich space for this kind of publication. Here are a few children's e-lit works I've curated: http://iloveepoetry.com/?p=11228.

Hipsters! ;-) Seriously though, I love and miss bookstores, and cherish every opportunity to visit one.

Authors are still authoring and booksellers are still bookselling. The surviving bookstores are better for the competition. Just like the remaining 'record' stores. IMHO

Twitter bots, recombinatory poetry, generative fiction is infinitely fascinating because it can be so random and unexpected. It's like experimenting with how we ascribe meaning, try to find purpose in the otherwise incomprehensible.

Here's a recent paper that unravels all the threads of 'transmedia.' Digital storytelling: New opportunities for humanities scholarship and pedagogy John F. Barber | Ray Siemens (Reviewing Editor) http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/23311983.2016.1181037

I found this part of the discussion to be rather interesting. I never thought of something like memes as being entry points into Elit--perhaps because they seem too "simplistic." But, if interacting with Elit has taught me anything, it's that it's made to be accessible. So, maybe it's whatever works, huh?

I am having trouble connecting bots to digital writing ... and hope some makes a good argument how the programmed bot is a piece of writing (not that I don't like bots for what they are)

I do love the associative underpinning of linked texts and media, and how one path leads to multiple paths, and maps that know no boundaries.

The expansion of the networked element of storytelling is huge with possibilities. Whereas a writer used to be able to tell a story, and hope for readers, now a writer can write with others, interact with readers, and update and expand the story in new directions. If they want.

I think unpacking this term is really important, and difficult to do.

So, story as anchor points but the worlds revolve around the story, not the other way around. Interesting.

This is where this article might best connect with Networked Narratives in a few weeks (I think). Making new worlds, but what stories will we tell?

The movie on IMDb And https://vimeo.com/107726165

I think this is an important point -- where is the line where the technology interferes with the storytelling (or vice versa? Is that possible?) But really, the way to find out is to do it and watch/see/listen

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Mmmm Magic.

Yes, we can have images and GIFs here, but you have to find a URL for them (hint, you can upload them you your web site, and find the URL for the upload).

Yes, my grammar is not perfect. Are long posts good or bad? Like a book, a movie, if there is some kind of arc, some kind of maybe surprise at the ending, what's wrong with long?

We can do more than 140 characters...

So these marginal conversations are networked in a way. But I'm still waiting to see how we can 'network' our stories in #NetNarr. Blogging is a singular activity but as Ray Charles says....'it takes two to tango' to understand the magic of alchemy. https://youtu.be/q4ulNtIYX20

I love this opening sentence. A shattered world brought me into educational and digital spaces. Trying to understand my new world has opened pathways into digital storytelling and humanities. Before the Silicon Valley bubble burst, I spent four decades as a scientific glassblower creating tools that are all broken. I love this opening sentence.

Does this mean that what we can infer before and after the fish is not part of the "story"? Only what we see in the frozen architecture of the image is the story? I am not so sure about that.

Curious to know what others think. I am not sure, and hadn't really thought about it before. It's a bit too general of a statement -- I am sure someone somewhere (prob in some DS106 universe) is making gifs that could counter this claim. Love to see some.

Made her an image ... https://twitter.com/dogtrax/status/821910929843568642

I've made a Group if you want to join....https://hypothes.is/groups/3g3oPBPP/networked-narratives

Chapter 42, appropriate I guess. Read more here: http://www.mobilewords.pro/Tao/chap42.htm or listen https://youtu.be/zZyuaTUjnUo?list=PLRkVzsVluQXMKl2MEF24JMawLiORsDARo

Has anyone figured out the code?

Now you are talking my language! (I'm not sure of all that came before this ...)

Perhaps a few that tunnel down below sight, below the surface, might be necessary ....

Writing, the remembering; Inside, remembering the writing.

This term has me intrigued, Mia