Janet Murray, "Introduction: A Book Lover Longs for Cyberdrama"

(In Hamlet on the Holodeck)

- Ambivalence towards emerging media (exhiliration/fear)
- Cross-referencing in print media as proto-hypertext (similar to some of Aarseth's points)
- Importance of early hackers, pedagogical computing in the early days of digital humanities
- "Microworlds" as dynamic, fictional universes/narratives represented on computers for exploration and discovery (and learning)
- Digital media as a "thrilling extension" and an analytical, synthetic "tool for serious inquiry" that needs only to be domesticated
- Computer as counterpart, not replacement, for print media
- Pursuit of "a computer-based literary form"
- Digital storytellers: "half hacker, half bard"
- Cyberdrama as a new framework for storytelling