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33 – Laurel – Computers As Theatre

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Is Twitter a Main Character Everyday?

The way that narrative gets built Emergently on social media and there's even a bit here on 86 I wanted to pull this out because it strikes me as reminiscent of Janet Murray and Hamlet on the holodeck Something she talks about there. She calls it the cyberbard Here Laurel calls it quote a program that reformulates the potential for action creating new possibilities and probabilities Quote on the fly as a response to what is gone before is equivalent to a playwright Changing a plot in real time as a collaboration with the actors and director And communicating new portions of script to them in real time Through some auto magical means.

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