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Code Is Text, Code As Text Code is Text, Code as Text Annet Dekker hp://aaaan.net 28 November 2016, UU Code is Text, Code as Text Code is Text, Code as Text 24 TV series, 2001-2010 Code is Text, Code as Text Tradi;onal media has been augmented by the advent of new media, not just trough the revolu;onary distribu;ve aspects of the technology, but principally through the changed relaonship between audience and author. New media forms offer both a convergence of narrave vehicles and a fragmentaon of understood forms. Mar;n Rieser and Andrea Zapp, New Screen Media. Cinema/Art/Narra3ve, 2002 Code is Text, Code as Text Code is Text, Code as Text In the world of new media, the word narrave is oNen used as an all- inclusive term, to cover up the fact that we have not yet developed a language to describe these new strange objects. Lev Manovich, The Language of New Media, 2001: 228. 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hYp://www.circularsoNware.com/ • Enhanced Edi;ons - hYp://www.enhanced-edi;ons.com/ • Cia - hYp://ci;a.com/ • Enthrill - hYp://www.enthrill.com/ • Cloud BookShop - hp://www.cloudbookshop.co/ • Entre Escritores - hp://www.entreescritores.com/ • Clube de Leitura - hYp://clubedaleitura.basepoint.pt/ • ePubDirect - hYp://www.epubdirect.com/ • Code Mantra - hYp://www.codemantra.com/contactus.htm • epubli - hp://www.epubli.co.uk/ • Code Meet Print - hYp://codemeetprint.com/ Coliloquy - • Ether Books - hYp://www.etherbooks.com/ hp://www.coliloquy.com/ • Evanidus - hp://www.evanidus.com/ • Collate It - hYp://www.collate-it.com/ • eWowBooks - hp://ewowbooks.com/ • Collca - hYp://collca.com/ • Exact Edi;ons - hYp://www.exactedi;ons.com/ • Completely Novel - hYp://www.completelynovel.com/ • Express Reads - hYps://expressreads.com/index.html • Fail BeYer Games - hYp://www.failbeYergames.com/ • Idea Logical Company - hYp://www.idealog.com/blog/ • Fastr Books - hps://fastrbooks.com/ • Ideal Binary - 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