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<div class="card"><DOCUMENT_FRAGMENT><div class="mw-parser-output"><h1><span class="mw-headline" id="understanding_texts">understanding texts</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/mw-mediadesign/index.php?title=User:Simon/Understanding_texts&amp;action=edit&amp;section=1" title="Edit section: understanding texts">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h1>
<p>see also <a href="Human_writing.html" title="User:Simon/Human writing">human writing</a>, <a href="Machine_writing.html" title="User:Simon/Machine writing">machine writing</a>, <a href="Producing_texts.html" title="User:Simon/Producing texts">producing texts</a>, <a href="Technologising_the_word.html" title="User:Simon/Technologising the word">technologising the word</a>
</p><p>What makes up a text depends on perspective and overlapping dimensions of text; editorial, technical and social.
</p><p>The <i>editorial</i> dimension; a sequence. A line of characters and spaces, the particular order that the writer sets these in. Text becomes an object, a carrier of thoughts and feelings, something that can be sent back and forth between participants in a conversation.
</p><p>The <i>technical</i> dimension; a process. Cybertexts and “ergodic literature” require non-trivial effort to read<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-1"><a href="#cite_note-1">[1]</a></sup>. Examples of this are MUDs (multi-user dungeons/domains/dimensions), which are real-time virtual worlds in which the players construct the story on-the-fly, and Mark Z. Danielewskis <i>House of Leaves</i><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-2"><a href="#cite_note-2">[2]</a></sup>, a printed novel that defies a linear narrative structure through its cybertextual materiality.
</p><p>The <i>social</i> dimension; a framework, a network of texts that elicit further texts.
</p><p>The library is a collection of texts; not just books, but also files, metadata, scripts and the processes that determine how they are used, and the readers who use them.
</p><p>Image: A spread from Danielewskis <i>House of Leaves</i>
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<li id="cite_note-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-1"></a></span> <span class="reference-text">Aarseth, E.J. (1997) <i>Cybertext: perspectives on ergodic literature</i>. Baltimore, Md: Johns Hopkins University Press.</span>
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<li id="cite_note-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-2"></a></span> <span class="reference-text">Danielewski, M.Z. (2000) <i>Mark Z. Danielewskis House of leaves</i>. 2nd ed. New York: Pantheon Books.</span>
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