11-14-2001 | UC Los Angeles

What is the role of the international community of writers, critics, and cultural commentators using digital technologies and the Internet? How does technological literacy connect to underlying issues of equity and religious difference that inflame this conflict? How does the interaction of word and image change the possibilities for to be politically engaged? How do we learn to read between the lines and images?

Keywords: word and image, multimedia, narrative, trauma, war, resistance, anti-narrative, randomness, computers and literature, literacy, illiteracy, future of literacy, hypertext, cybertext, print, docuverse, electronic literature.