V. Analysis
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V. Analysis
Autoethnographic Narratives | Published Narratives | Interview Narratives
Published Narratives
The following figures map the relationship between tools as invention influences and specific changes in webtext drafts. The published narratives used to generate these analyses were selected from Kairos Journal's Inventio section.
Boyd, "Pulling the Difference"
Descriptive Summary
A: The realities of screen real estate made it difficult to enact the imagined possibilities for textual organization.
- Web-Editing | Limit | Base
B: Limited screen real estate made it difficult to design the text for readability.
- Web-Editing | Limit | Base
C: Writing notes about the article in preparation for a web version made her rethink her project goals and generate significantly more text.
- Text-Editing | Rethink | Text
Delagrange, "Wunderkammer, Cornell, and the Visual Canon of Arrangement"
Descriptive Summary
A: Quicktime provided an initial environment for imagining her project, but the design remained primarily verbal rather than visual
- Video-Editing | Limit | Media
B: Expanding the canvas size beyond default ratios opened up new possibilities for including animation and text.
- Web-Editing | Rethink | Base + Navigation
C: Changing the visual real estate and navigation options in turn changed the way the webtext performed its argument.
- Web-Editing | Rethink | Navigation + Media
D: The web environment offered new options for thinking about how to present and invite readers to engage with the homepage.
- Web-Editing | Rethink | Splash
E: Flash offered several important resources as her selected composing environment, including the ability to incorporate multiple media elements for publication in a web environment.
- Web-Editing | Afford | Total
F: Delagrange felt it was important to learn AS3 in order to directly engage with scripting language as a foundational design component, rather than feeling pressured to compose in template-based programs.
- Web-Editing | Engage | Code
Lauer, "What's in a Name?"
Descriptive Summary
A:Lauer began drafting in Prezi; however, Prezi was unable to host all her audio files.
- Web-Editing | Limit | Total
B: She then moved to Flash, which proved a cumbersome environment for carrying out her original design plans.
- Web-Editing | Limit | Total
C: She found a final home for the project in an HTML-based environment, which provided the resources she needed to host all her files and reimagine her design.
- Web-Editing | Afford | Total
D: Moving to HTML became an opportunity to brush up on web-editing skills she had developed years ago but since forgotten.
- Web-Editing | Engage | Total
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