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Life is bigger than environment: an interview with Ed Barrett

Ed Barrett is Senior Lecturer in the Program in Writing and Humanistic Studies, General Editor of the MIT Press Series on Digital Communication, and Associate Editor of the new Media In Transition Series at MIT Press. His books of poetry include "Theory of Transportation" (Groundwater Press 1990),"Common Preludes" (Groundwater Press 1994)), "Practical Lulabies for Joe" (Quale Press, 1998) and "Sheepshead Bay" (Zoland Books, forthcoming). His books on digital communication and new media include "Text, Context, and Hypertext (MIT Press 1987), "The Society of Text: Hypertext, Hypermedia, and the Social Construction of Information" (MIT Press 1989), "Sociomedia" (MIT Press 1992), "Contextual Media: Multimedia and Interpretation" (co-editor, MIT Press 1995), and "The Poetics of Cyberspace" (MIT Press, forthcoming). Ed Barrett gives courses on Interactive Fiction and works on the aesthetics of hypertext. Roberto Simanowski talked with him about digital media and education.