Goals for this course:
- gain practical knowledge of digitizing different media (photos, film, audio, text, etc.)
- produce a functioning hypertext (possibly multimedia) literary project
- to look at theories of digitization and apply these to identity on the web
- to learn new stuff!
Proposed Project: Producing a hyperlinked Hypertext version of Ana Castillo's The Mixquiahuala Letters...
- A circular, and non-linear, epistolary novel originally published by Bilingual Press in 1986
- Ideally it will be hosted in digital form by either an educational institution (like UCSB's Chican@ Studies Department or English Department) or Ana Castillo's personal/professional page, http://anacastillo.com
- Digital document will contain mostly text and images
- Hardware and software (potentially) needed include scanner, OCR software, and html and webpage editing software
- An earlier example of this type includes Shelly Jackson's Patchwork Girl, which utilizes the Storyspace software/interface
