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Jay David Bolter is a professor of Language, Communication and Culture at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Some of his main points of study include the evolution of media, the usage of technology in education, and the role of computers in the writing process.

Contents 1 Biography 2 StorySpace 3 Select works 4 See also

Jay David Bolter was born on August 17, 1951. Bolter received his B.A. in Greek from Trinity College, The University of Toronto, in 1973. In 1977 and 1978 he received his Ph.D in Classics and an M.S. in Computer Science, both from the University of North Carolina.

Bolter received a number of prominent fellowships throughout his studies. They included a fellowship at Yale, Cornell, Universitat Gottingen, and a fellowship with the American Council of Learned Societies.

From 1979 until 1991, Jay David Bolter held a number of different professor positions at the University of North Carolina. In 1991 he moved to the Georgia Institute of Technology, where he remains to the present day.

Bolter is a co-designer and programmer for Storyspace, hypertext writing software. He created the software with John B. Smith and Michael Joyce. Bolter refers to writing spaces as nodes. He has also offered a view of the world wide web as an arena for the interdependence and convergence of new technologies. His interview with frontwheeldrive.com in 2001 offers insight into his ideas of how technology has influenced the writing process.

Source: http://www.eastgate.com/people/Bolter.html

For more information visit Bolter's Homepage

StorySpace is a software, created by Bolter, John B. Smith and Michael Joyce for creating, editing, and displaying hypertext fiction. It was developed to support hypertext fiction in particular, although it can also be used for organizing and writing fiction and non-fiction intended for print.

Some of the notable hypertext fictions created in Storyspace include: Michael Joyce's afternoon, a story, Stuart Moulthrop's Victory Garden and Shelley Jackson's Patchwork Girl.

Bolter has used Storyspace to revise several of his own books. More importantly, Storyspace provides facilities for writing and editing, which includes a map of the structure of the links, making it accessible for new users. Storyspace is being developed by Mark Bernstein of Eastgate Systems.

• Bolter, Jay David and Gromala, Diane. Windows and Mirrors: Interaction Design, Digital Art and the Myth of Transparency. Cambridge:MIT Press, 2003.

• Bolter, Jay David, Writing Space: Computers, Hypertext, and the Remediation of Print, Second Edition. Mahwah: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2001.

• MacIntyre, Blair, Bolter, Jay David, Moreno, Emmanuel, and Hannigan, Brendan. "Augmented Reality as a New Media Experience," In International Symposium on Augmented Reality (ISAR 2001), New York, NY, October 29-30, 2001.

• Bolter, Jay David and Richard Grusin. Remediation: Understanding New Media. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1999.

• Bolter, Jay David, "Virtual Reality and the Redefinition of Self" in Communication and Cyberspace: Social Interaction in an Electronic Environment, edited by Stephanie Gibson et al. (Hampton Press, 1996).

• Robert Coover
• Electronic Literature Organization
• J.Yellowlees Douglas
• N. Katherine Hayles
• Shelley Jackson
• Michael Joyce
• George Landow
• Lev Manovich
• Stuart moulthrop