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Four Axes of Rhetorical Convergence
Fagerjord, Anders (2003) , S. 1-45
This essay presents a theoretical model of genre relations in multimedia. Any text may be described according to the four axes Mode of Distribution (the balance of amount of material and time between authoring and reading); Mode of Restrictions (range and detail in space and time); Mode of Acquisition (the reading process required of the reader); and Mode of Signification (the particular combination of sign systems). Rhetorical convergence is when a text is similar to one genre on one axis and another genre on another axis. However, the model implies that rhetorical divergence may be a better description.
Paradigms of interaction: Conceptions and misconceptions of the field today
Klastrup, Lisbeth (2003) , S. 1-18
This article gives a selective overview of the use of interaction as a concept in computer game and literary theory in the last decades. It uses this overview as a sounding board for a (re)definition and refinement of the concept, arguing that for analytical purposes we need to approach from a more stringent perspective how interaction concretely functions in both single-user and multi-user "text" forms. Following, it discusses primarily the scope of interaction in various genres, outlining three basic interactive" text" types: static, pseudo-dynamic and dynamic.