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Hypertext, Cybertext, Digital Literature, Medium: an interview with Espen Aarseth

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Espen Aarseth is Associate Professor, Dept. of Humanistic Informatics, Univ. of Bergen since 1996. His research interests are Aesthetics of Cybermedia, Ergodic Literature, Hypertext, MUDs, Computer Culture Studies, and History of media thechnology. He has widely published on these topics and is well known as the author of "Cybertext: Perspectives on Ergodic Literature", one of the most thoughtful and challenging publications in the field. Roberto Simanowski talked with Espen Aarseth about hypertext resaerch and curricula in Norway, about classifications and categorisations, MUDs, the new umbrella term medium, and the distinction between art and commerce.

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Simanowski, Roberto: Hypertext, Cybertext, Digital Literature, Medium: an interview with Espen Aarseth. In: Dichtung Digital. Journal für Kunst und Kultur digitaler Medien, Jg. 1 (1999-12-16), Nr. 7, S. 1-5. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/17331.
@ARTICLE{Simanowski1999-12-16,
 author = {Simanowski, Roberto},
 title = {Hypertext, Cybertext, Digital Literature, Medium: an interview with Espen Aarseth},
 year = 1999-12-16,
 doi = "\url{http://dx.doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/17331}",
 volume = 1,
 address = {Cambridge},
 journal = {Dichtung Digital. Journal für Kunst und Kultur digitaler Medien},
 number = 7,
 pages = {1--5},
}
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