Twine reminds me of choose your own adventure novels. I was never a big reader in elementary school, but those books were the ones I could get behind (along with Archie comics).
Like choose your own adventure novels, Twine provides a space where we are not confined to a traditional this then that storyline but to a this then that, or that, or that. It also allows for reader choice and the ability to revisit a story and perceive it through a different lens.
Twine is an example of how technology has allowed a space for text to be seen and manipulated structurally, as described by Bolter (2001). It supports interaction by both the writer and the reader in a visual format. My mapping of ideas is displayed below:
Now it's time to play...
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What do you think the message behind this story is?
References:
Bolter, Jay David. (2001). Writing space: computers, hypertext, and the remediation of print. New York, NY: Routledge.
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