this week's topic is Audience and Context

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"The most important element the new medium adds to our repertoire of representational powers is its procedural nature. Its ability to capture experience as systems of interrelated actions. We are engaged in establishing the building blocks of a procedural medium, the musical figures that may someday grow into a symphonic form" Janet H. Murray, Hamlet on the Holodeck

What is the future of narrative in cyberspace? Can we find new ways to tell our stories using these multimedia tools? Is the web a good medium for distributing these stories? In what ways can we encourage new voices to the heard, and alter the relationship between artist, producer and audience? Does the story ultimately remain the same, or is there something very different about narrative on the web?