
When I read more about Hypertext, I found "These Waves of Girls" made by Caitlin Fisher had peaked my interest. It is a hypertext novella that explores different aspects about girlhood, identity, sexuality, and many other factors. These topics are told through different perspectives of girls that are different ages. They are through a four year old, ten year old, and a twenty year old. It shows how memories from these girls effect them individually. Some are there to display how the girls are victims and victimizers, but that doesn't make them any different. It was awarded the Electronic Literature Organization. It was the first award given for work of fiction.The book told me about how it is made up of hypertexts that you click to get more of a story or a different one. It includes images, animation, and links. The hypertext is all over the place and is to make the readers think that they are going through memories of the girls. And it's supposed to show the stages of girlhood. Caitlin Fisher created this project with background audio and repetition with images.
I found this interesting because I really think it's cool how Fisher made this to have reader understand girlhood. I believe that girlhood is very hard to understand if you are not a girl or woman. We have many different events that happen to us, and how they shape all of us are not the same to any woman. And I also found it amazing how this project is told though different stages of life. I think that shows just how mind-blowing growing up as a girl can be. I wasn't able to to find the software, but I did found images and videos. The media that I found looked like a flash window not the whole screen, and it came off kinda like a scrapbook with writing under the pictures of childhood.
I love that you found this. I agree with your opinion about girlhood being a difficult topic to understand if you're not a woman. I also like how it shows different perspectives through the different ages of women.
ReplyDeleteI really enjoyed this response because of the different topics being brought up. Girlhood is really difficult to understand and the examples you use are interesting.
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