Digital Literacy in Story Spaces

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Digital Literacy in Story Spaces

• Rebecca Luce-Kapler
• Queens University
• Kingston, Ontario, Canada

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A narrative isnt something you pull along like a
toy train, a perpetually thrusting indicative.
Its this little subjunctive cottage by the side
of the road. All you have to do is open the door
and walk in.
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We read the incidents of narration as promises
and annunciations of final coherence, that
metaphor that may be reached through the chain
of metonymies across the bulk of the as yet
unread middle pages, the end calls to the
beginning, transforms and enhances it.
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• 2 Adolescents
• 3 Education Students

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• Show me how you began reading the text.
• How did you make decisions about
• how to proceed?
• Did you develop a strategy in reading this text?

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Joanne I find shes very stream of consciousness
which is something that I like if it is done
really well. I just dont particularly like the
way that she does it. . . .The other challenge I
really found was very little dialogue. Its not
usually a huge problem for me, but I dont feel
like anyones talking to each other and it all
seems so very cerebral. . . . I just find the
story felt very fragmented as well. I found it
very hard to make connections, and she seemed to
almost jump from situation to situation and there
was very little transition.
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Stevie I think it works because the whole story
is thoughts basically. . . . I know that my
thoughts . . . bounce from one thing to another
so I think its . . . almost a stream-of-conscious
ness. Its like a written portrait of the human
mind almost.
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Alice van der Klei, 2002

• Do we perhaps linger too much on the text and
  its concepts, having the habits of the monastic
  archiving reader? (p. 54)

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ergodic
ergon work
hodos path
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• 64 symbols or hexagrams
• which the binary
• combinations of 6 whole or
• broken lines
• By manipulating 3 coins or
• 49 yarrow stalks according
• to a randomizing principle,
• the texts of 2 hexagrams
• are combined.
• 4096 texts are possible
• -Aarseth

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Rebecca Luce-Kapler Queens University Kingston,
Ontario, Canada educ.queensu.ca/luce-kar