Author Details
Deena Larsen
Boulder, Colorado
Email: deena@acm.org
Web site: http://www.deenalarsen.net
About the Author
Deena Larsen is a technical writer by day and a hypertext addict by night.
She has helped the hypertext/electronic literature/new media/online writing
community of readers and writers grow by hosting chats, conducting workshops,
and other subversive activities. Her works have been published from Eastgate
Systems and appear in Web journals (Firefly
(requires Flash 617K) in Poems
that Go is her most recent work).
Larsen’s contributions form an interlinked series of comparisions between
the long-standing print writing and reading communities and the growing
new media communities.
In this Issue
Larsen contributes seven nodes that consider the main problems for hypertext
to earn a "normality" status in relation to other media, discuss the technological
requirements that set it apart from mainstream literature, the lack of
a business model, and the necessity for hypertext to come out of the academic
ghetto. She also stresses the importance of community building, and explains
the function of writing groups and conferences in the development of readers
and writers.
The nodes are: