{"id":157,"date":"2009-04-27T14:01:50","date_gmt":"2009-04-27T18:01:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hotsoft.carleton.ca\/hotsoft\/?p=157"},"modified":"2009-07-01T18:32:13","modified_gmt":"2009-07-01T22:32:13","slug":"157","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotsoft.carleton.ca\/hotsoft\/157\/","title":{"rendered":"MIT6"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/web.mit.edu\/comm-forum\/mit6\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-158\" style=\"float: right;\" title=\"IMG_3222\" src=\"https:\/\/hotsoft.carleton.ca\/hotsoft\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/IMG_3222.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_3222\" width=\"154\" height=\"207\" \/>MIT6<\/a> (Media in Transition) was in Boston for the last few days, and we did a road trip: Rilla Khaled, Pippin Barr, Natalie King, Jennifer Whitson, Chris Eaket, Brian Greenspan, and Robert Biddle. Although at MIT, this is a humanities conference, with a focus on new kinds of literature and new kinds of literacy. Our group of HotSoft and Hyperlab people had a number of talks, on topics ranging from journalism to hyperfiction. The conference had many parallel streams, and it was always difficult to choose what to attend: on the whole I think\u00a0 was particularly impressed by the talks that exposed vibrant ecosystems of new media. For example, there is more going on at Youtube that I realized. We left at mid-day on Sunday to drive back to Ottawa, and so missed <span> <a href=\"http:\/\/www1.sdu.dk\/Hum\/english\/people\/thomas_pettitt.shtml\">Thomas Pettitt<\/a>, from the University of Southern Denmark, summarize the conference and reference both Natalie&#8217;s\u00a0 paper on <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Patchwork_Girl_%28hypertext%29\">Patchwork Girl,<\/a> and also our new <a href=\"http:\/\/web.mit.edu\/comm-forum\/mit6\/papers\/Greenspan.pdf\">StoryTrek<\/a> system. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MIT6 (Media in Transition) was in Boston for the last few days, and we did a road trip: Rilla Khaled, Pippin Barr, Natalie King, Jennifer Whitson, Chris Eaket, Brian Greenspan, and Robert Biddle. Although at MIT, this is a humanities conference, with a focus on new kinds of literature and new kinds of literacy. Our [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conferences"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotsoft.carleton.ca\/hotsoft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotsoft.carleton.ca\/hotsoft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotsoft.carleton.ca\/hotsoft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotsoft.carleton.ca\/hotsoft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotsoft.carleton.ca\/hotsoft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=157"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/hotsoft.carleton.ca\/hotsoft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":165,"href":"https:\/\/hotsoft.carleton.ca\/hotsoft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157\/revisions\/165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotsoft.carleton.ca\/hotsoft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotsoft.carleton.ca\/hotsoft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotsoft.carleton.ca\/hotsoft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}