[Air-L] Fwd: Literature Factory Announcement to forward
Jeremy Hunsinger
jhuns at vt.edu
Fri Aug 10 09:05:13 PDT 2007
>
Forwarded with permission:) Please distribute as appropriate. -jh
> You are invited to the grand opening of the Literature Factory at
> Kula 2 (187,7) in Second Life. What is a Literature Factory? Well
> now, that's a silly question, it's simply a factory that makes
> literature. According to Wikipedia:
>
> "The term "literature" has different meanings depending on who
> is using it and in what context. It could be applied broadly to
> mean any symbolic record, encompassing everything from images and
> sculptures to letters. In a more narrow sense the term could mean
> only text composed of letters, or other examples of symbolic
> written language (Egyptian hieroglyphs, for example). An even more
> narrow interpretation is that text have a physical form, such as on
> paper or some other portable form, to the exclusion of inscriptions
> or digital media."
>
> Well, we certainly meet that criteria, excepting the physical form
> bit, but we hope you'll appreciate the transgression.
>
> Now, we have things to do and people to see, so we went ahead and
> automated the factory. The Word-o-Mats runs tirelessly day and
> night, manufacturing words for the factory, the Bin Bots with them
> take charge of ferrying the words from the Word-o-Mats to the
> sorted bins on the other side of the factory. From there other
> bots build sentences and transfer them into the new works of
> literature under constant production.
>
> We're celebrating our grand opening Saturday with an open house
> from 4pm to 6pm SLT so drop in to the Literature Factory at Kula 2
> (189,9,25).
>
> I
jeremy hunsinger
Information Ethics Fellow, Center for Information Policy Research,
School of Information Studies, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
(www.cipr.uwm.edu)
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